Supported by UKRI’s Infrastructure Fund and Digital Research Infrastructure Programme, BioFAIR aims to establish a cohesive, UK-wide digital research infrastructure that bridges current gaps between researchers, digital research technical professionals, existing institutional digital research infrastructures, and the funder-community partnership.
BioFAIR will be a catalyst for innovation and discovery and over its five-year life span will:
- accelerate the adoption of findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) data principles across the UK life sciences, making it more useful and valuable to researchers than ever before
- unify the UK’s currently fragmented digital research landscape, fostering unprecedented opportunities for collaboration and coordination among the national life sciences community
- break down barriers to democratise data accessibility, giving UK researchers the resources and autonomy needed for innovation and discovery to flouris
- coordinate and deliver extensive training and support for practitioners at all levels, building critical workforce capacity and securing the UK's position as a global leader in life sciences.
As the awarded hosts of BioFAIR’s coordinating hub, the Earlham Institute’s strengths will be complemented by a skilled and distributed network of UK partners responsible for project leadership and delivery.
