WorldFAIR Final Policy Brief: Enabling Global FAIR Data - Recommendations for Research Infrastructures

Abstract:  This document presents the policy recommendations from the WorldFAIR project. It synthesises the project’s findings and presents recommendations for specific stakeholders, for the European Open Science Cloud and other Research Infrastructures globally.

To meet the challenges and opportunities confronting 21st century science, including the need to support interdisciplinary research and the impact of AI, it calls for a shift to a data engineering approach and for investment in metadata uplift and the implementation of the FAIR principles to enable this.

In the first version of this second and final policy brief (DOI), the WorldFAIR project made eleven policy recommendations relevant to EOSC.  Also presented are the policy, organisational and technical recommendations made in the three synthesis reports produced at the end of the project.  

The Policy Brief and recommendations draw on project deliverables and discussions held at numerous project and community events.  Evidence and analysis is presented in support of each recommendation.

As well as a summary of the WorldFAIR project's engagement with EOSC activities and its contribution to the EOSC's SRIA (Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda) and MAR (Multi-Annual Roadmap), this Policy Brief outlines plans for sustainability and maximising the impact of the project's outputs and outcomes.