DRI Webinar Series: Getting to Know FAIRsharing

What is the DRI Webinar Series? In February 2026, we launched a series of webinars to showcase the digital research infrastructure projects and communities in the UK and beyond in collaboration with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). Join the series to learn about state-of-the-art initiatives that aim to advance research tools and techniques, foster collaboration and data sharing, and accelerate discoveries across a range of academic disciplines and sectors. FAIR expectations are becoming increasingly embedded within UK and European funder, publisher, and organisational policies. A central challenge is not whether FAIR matters, but how to navigate and use an increasingly complex ecosystem of standards, databases, policies, and guidance to enable informed FAIR decision-making and practical implementation. This webinar will introduce FAIRsharing, a widely endorsed service that supports a wide range of FAIR-enabling activities from data management planning to FAIR assistance, working with communities across disciplines and internationally. We will describe how FAIRsharing integrates with services such as the data management and stewardship tools, engages and supports national and European research infrastructures through the Community Champion programme, and operationalises FAIR compliance in practice, working with a number of institutional repositories.