Partners from across Europe gathered for the ENFORCE* General Assembly (GA) from October 8th to 10th, 2025. The event was hosted at the University of Crete’s Natural History Museum in Heraklion, Crete.
ENFORCE General Assembly Attests Good Progress
NFDI4Earth’s OneStop4All
Assisting researchers to find spatio-temporal research materials
The National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI = Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur) is an interdisciplinary initiative that aims to increase the findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability of scientific resources. NFDI is composed of several discipline-specific consortia from humanities and social sciences (e.g., NFDI4Culture), engineering sciences (e.g., NFDI4Ing), life sciences (e.g., NFDI4Biodiversity), and natural sciences (e.g., NFDI4Chem). Another consortium focuses on the Earth System Sciences (ESS) and is called NFDI4Earth.
“NFDI4Earth will provide simple, efficient, open, and – whenever possible – unrestricted access to all relevant Earth system data, scientific data management and data analysis services. Major implementation guidelines are the FAIR principles which do impact the whole research data life cycle.” (https://www.nfdi4earth.de/about-us)
Open Pioneer Trails: An Open-Source Framework for Map-Oriented Web Apps
An overview of the Open Pioneer Trails framework
Overview
Generic portal solutions with map and GIS features are currently widespread. There is, however, also an increasing demand for focused, specialized applications that are precisely tailored to specific needs. Instead of overloaded platforms that offer a wide range of functions, many of which are not needed for the specialist processes, a customized solution is often required that focuses on the essential features.
Despite this trend towards specialization, there is still a considerable overlap in the basic features of such map-centric applications. In this blog, we want to show how we meet these requirements with the open-source framework Open Pioneer Trails (or just “Trails”). This framework offers an efficient way to develop map applications that can range from lightweight solutions based on predefined components to complex systems with custom extensions and functionalities. Trails is a collaborative endeavor of 52°North and con terra.
52°North @ GSoC Mentor Summit 2025
Google Summer of Code 2025 Mentor Summit
52°North has been participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for many years now. This year we mentored two projects, one in the context of KomMonitor and the other in the context of our Weather Routing Tool.
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