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Franziska Eberl, Lukas Jansen, Bernhard Miller, Lisa Amelung, Renita Danabalan, Évariste Demandt, Katharina Deschler, Maja Eggert, Judith Engel, Sara Espinoza, Stephan Ferenz, Franziska Fritzsche, Michael Goedicke, Barbara Götz, Christine Hennig, Adina Hofmann, Carsten Hoffmann, Johannes Hunold, Teresa Idda, Tolin Jojo, Regina Jutz, Ulrich Krieger, Maria Meister, Daniel Nüst, Sarah Pittroff, Kristin Sauerland, Christian Schmidt, Christiane Schneide, Annett Schwarz, Thorsten Schwetje, Jörg Seegert, Thorsten Trippel

• The non-profit association National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) promotes science and research through a National Research Data Infrastructure. Its aim is to develop and establish an overarching research data management (RDM) for Germany and to increase the efficiency of the entire German science system. After a two-and-a-half year build up phase, the process of adding new consortia, each representing a different data domain, has ended in March 2023. NFDI consists of 26 disciplinary consortia and one additional basic service collaboration (Base4NFDI). The attached table of jointly documented cross-consortial collaborations is based on a White Paper ratified by the NFDI association’s consortia assembly in January 2023. It defines collaborations as “the exchange of information on or development of common approaches to managing the research data of at least one domain.” From the perspective of the consortia assembly, “A necessary condition for any collaboration is that activities are on behalf and in line with the strategic aims of a consortium and are not activities by individuals within them only.” The tabular overview of the collaborations was created as a collaborative work in which all consortia had the opportunity to enter joint activities. Nevertheless, this document does not claim to be complete. Instead, it is constantly updated to reflect the evolving state of NFDI. A first version of the document was published in 2023, a second in 2024. This is the third version and future collaboration will be published in updated versions.