Digital transformation is rapidly changing the landscape of science. To harness the opportunities it offers effectively, it must be shaped comprehensively. A key factor for science and innovation lies in the extensive use and exploitation of research data within the scientific knowledge process. Recognizing digital research data as one of the most valuable resources, securing it, storing it sustainably, and making it available to others is therefore one of the main tasks for the scientific community.

The goal of LeibnizData is to consolidate the Leibniz Association’s responses to the requirements of a forward-looking approach to research data. Interdisciplinarily, the Leibniz research network combines services for data management with the necessary research data infrastructures and creates opportunities for professional exchange—both within LeibnizData and for the entire Leibniz Association and beyond.

LeibnizData makes an important contribution to ensuring that the Leibniz Association is firmly anchored in science policy in the field of research data—both with regard to infrastructures, e.g., through past and current participatory activities in the Council for Information Infrastructures, the Council for Social and Economic Data (RatSWD), the High Level Expert Group on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), the Horizon 2020 Advisory Group on European Research Infrastructures, the EOSC Association, and the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI); and with regard to research data, e.g., through involvement in the GOFAIR initiative and networking with activities related to the Data Institute and the Research Data Act.