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Organisation and Governance

DARIAH-EU is a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) for the Arts and Humanities, which supports researching and teaching in E-Science. The consortium understands itself as a cooperative undertaking that is carried out by organisations in its Member Countries, DARIAH’s Cooperating Partners and several affiliated projects.

The following is an overview of the most important bodies and concepts related to DARIAH-EU’s work. DARIAH-EU is constituted by its Governing Body (General Assembly), Executive Body (Board of Directors), Advisory Bodies (Scientific Advisory Board and Senior Management Team) and Operational Bodies (National Coordinator Committee, Joint Research Committee and DARIAH Coordination Office).

Select a body to see its description and members.

  • Governing body

    GA General Assembly

    26 members

    The governing body of DARIAH ERIC composed of the ministerial representatives of its Member and Observer countries.

    • Appoints BoD
    • Appoints SAB

  • Executive body

    BoD Board of Directors

    3 members

    DARIAH-EU has three directors that provide leadership for the infrastructure and propose its strategic objectives and directions.

    • Appoints DCO and JRC

  • Advisory body

    SAB Scientific Advisory Board

    7 members

    Advises and provides guidance to all DARIAH bodies on scientific and technical matters.

    • Advises BoD
    • Represented in SMT

  • Advisory body

    SMT Senior Management Team

    8 members

    Ensures the balanced input of all of DARIAH’s constituent bodies in strategic decisions.

    • Advises BoD

  • Operational body

    JRC Joint Research Committee

    10 members

    Contributes to the alignment and strategic vision of DARIAH’s scientific and technical activities

    • Represented in SMT
    • Oversees WG

  • WG Working Groups

    43 members

    Self-organised communities of practice within DARIAH which contribute to state-of-the-art digital arts and humanities activities, scaling their results to a European level.