The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is rapidly building the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing and re-use of data on a global level. The RDA Europe project - the European plug-in to the global Research Data Alliance activities – ensures that European research, industry, e-infrastructure and policy stakeholders are all aware of its achievements, engaged with and actively involved in global RDA activities and advancing the use of its results. European domain scientists and data scientists are driving a series of working and interest groups, generating outputs from RDA, and this momentum needs to be maintained and even increased. A collaborative web platform, that is being continuously developed and improved, is widely used by RDA members and the coordinating administration. RDA Europe looks for innovative ways of facilitating the take-up and implementation of RDA outputs in Europe, both in academia and industry, and continued to develop and maintain the RDA web-based collaboration framework. Further steps have been taken in steering, planning and implementing the sustainability of RDA. This RDA Europe 3 project was mainly built on successful previous consortia, but has strengthened its anchoring in policy, scientific and industrial uptake to drive forward RDA Europe objectives that are all grounded in technological excellence and innovation and have clear international ties. RDA Europe partners are very actively involved in the strategic planning, implementation, marketing & communication of RDA through the governance bodies of RDA. The RDA Europe project actively contributed to the Digital Single Market strategy, to make data FAIR and to advance the EOSC ideas.
