Common use of CONSORTIA Clause in Contracts

CONSORTIA. (1) Consortia are long-term collaborations between users and providers of research data such as state- funded and state-recognized higher education institutions, non-university research institutions, departmental research institutions, academies and other publicly financed information infrastructures. They shall normally be organized according to research domains or methods without any requirements as to institutional composition. (2) The consortia shall define their cooperation and select from their midst a spokesperson who shall represent the consortium in the Consortia Assembly. The member institutions within a consortium shall conclude cooperation agreements in which they define joint goals and milestones and establish who will be the recipient of the grant, how the flow of funds within the consortium will be organized and who will be responsible for proving the use of funds vis-a-vis the grant providers. (3) The consortia shall implement the requirements formulated in the applications and confirmed by the evaluation and/or funding decision and cooperate with the bodies of the NFDI in this process. (4) The consortia shall provide for the ability to communicate and act in the partnership between the scientific community and participating infrastructure operators; they shall develop and promote a culture of data sharing and informational skills based on the FAIR principles; they shall see to it that technical services for data provision, archiving and indexing are established and maintained and that the necessary data storage and hardware capacities are adapted to ensure the performance of national tasks.