Lund Declaration on Maximising the Benefits of Research Data

"The Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union calls for reinforcing, accelerating, and maximising the benefits of FAIR and open research data in Europe, within scientific communities and through research infrastructures, to increase the overall research and innovation performance of the European Research Area and strengthen the outreach to and impact on industry and society.

Meeting these challenges notably requires: • Advancing and monitoring the implementation of Open Science policies and practices on European, national, and institutional levels, notably targeting reusability of high-quality data across all research domains for all relevant stakeholders through the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). • Designing and developing policies, frameworks and regulations that can be adapted to changing conditions and local settings, so that research infrastructures may adjust their operations and continue providing services in crises and conflicts. • Supporting European and international cooperation regarding domain and cross-domain interoperability frameworks and integrating best community practices in the EOSC interoperability framework. • Improve coordination and interconnection between digital infrastructures and research infrastructures, at policy and operational level to foster usercentric development of cross-cutting digital services, bringing economies of scale, volumes of digital outputs to the wider knowledge society, and limiting duplication of effort. • Accomplishing the change needed to incentivise Open Science practices and mainstreaming new reward models for research data producers aligned to a reformed research assessment system. • Creating incentives for investments in FAIR and open research data, e.g., by systematic budgeting for FAIR-by-design research data in national and EU-funded research and in existing European research infrastructures. • Strengthening adoption of FAIR and open principles in research infrastructures, by promoting networks of data stewards, relevant skills and training, career possibilities, and support centres for researchers."