Periodic Reporting for period 1 - RDA TIGER (Research Data Alliance facilitation of Targeted International working Groups for EOSC-related Research solutions)
Reporting period: 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31
The services are obviously needed by the communities, and the first steps towards professionalisation and service definition has been taken. The development of the RDA TIGER services will continue in the following reporting periods, and the feedback from the supported groups is actively taken into account in the service provision. The main objective and main activities in the first reporting period has been concentrated on the creation of the RDA TIGER services. Some of them are in the Operational phase (i.e. can be provided fully to the WGs), some are in the piloting phase (limited testing) and one of them is still under development. These services include the following (in the order of requests from the communities):
- Facilitation service, which provides the (potential) Working Groups with direct personal support on their activities, helping them to become accepted as RDA WGs (onboarding), creating the necessary community and work plan, maintaining the work plan in efficient meetings, and overall providing direct support to the WG co-chairs, letting the members of the WGs to concentrate on the subject matter.
- Communication services. Provides the Working groups internal and external communications (e.g. for recruiting new members or advertising the existence of new WG outputs).
- Output services. These services are intended to provide the WGs with support towards end of their operations, to ensure that the outputs are created in correct ways to ensure their use of the relevant stakeholders, and that they are properly documented and stored to ensure their continued use after the end of the Working Group.
- Landscape and engagement service. These services are mainly intended to increase the participation in the WGs, analysing the overall landscape near the subject of the WG and providing support to engage with the key potential WG members.
- Direct support mechanisms services, including 3rd party grants (cascading grants), direct financial support for organisations of workshops, etc., and hiring of external experts to support WG work (subcontractors).
The project also has contributed towards the service creation objectives via several internal services, including quality control, selection procedure, service advertisement, and EOSC connectivity. The project contributes to the Objectives directly via the work of the supported Working Groups, many of them which come from the EOSC involved organisations and initiatives, although only limited number of formally EOSC-related projects are involved in the WGs. The Working Groups are all international (i.e. including also non-European participation), and thus contribute to the overall internationalisation required by the Objectives.
The provided services are well received by the Working Groups, and have a high potential to increase the impact of the participating projects and organisations, as well as RDA and EOSC as a whole.