Commitment to research data management

German research alliances have emphasized the importance of research data and software for their research processes. The Clusters of Excellence SimTech and IntCDC at the University of Stuttgart co-initiated and signed the now published joint declaration. In a joint document, major German research alliances emphasize the importance of research data and software for their research processes. In the declaration, which was published in the journal on March 14, 2022, the participating alliances commit themselves, among other things, to support their researchers as an alliance in handling data and software according to the FAIR principles in agreement with the "Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Research Practice" of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and to use and provide adequate research data management tools and services for this purpose. Prof. Bernd Flemisch , member of the committee "Data and Software Management" in SimTech, is pleased that spokespersons of 20 Clusters of Excellence and 6 Collaborative Research Centers have signed the commitment: "This is a great success and, in my opinion, clearly positions these research alliances in the very dynamically developing FDM landscape." The foundation for the joint document was laid during the virtual strategy workshop "Data and Software Management in Large Research Collaborations" in April 2021, which was organized by the two Clusters of Excellence SimTech and IntCDC at the University of Stuttgart. During the workshop, the idea of the commitment and a first text proposal were presented and interated.