Leaders Activating Research Networks: Implementing the LERU Research Data Roadmap and Toolkit

Objective

We live in the age of the ‘data deluge’, where digital technology enables us to store petabytes of data and to make that available for sharing as open data. Sharing data has the potential to revolutionise the way that researchers work. It avoids costly duplication in the collecting of data and enables research collaborations across the world which otherwise would not be possible.

The purpose of this bid is to take the LERU Roadmap for Research Data produced by the League of European Research Universities (LERU) and to develop this in order to build a coordinated e-infrastructure across Europe and beyond. LEARN will deliver a model research Research Data Management (RDM) policy, a Toolkit to support implementation, and an Executive Briefing in five core languages so as to ensure wide outreach.

LEARN will hold a series of Workshops within four European countries and one international country. The workshops will serve to advocate the Recommendations on RDM and open data made by the LERU Roadmap, and gain feedback from Workshop attendees for a new Toolkit of best practice. Furthermore, guidance to implement the Roadmap will be provided following identification of Best Practices supported by case studies identified through the workshops.

By producing an exemplar RDM policy, which could then be tailored by any university or research institution to meet their needs, LEARN aims to address the challenges of the Work Programme concerning the fragmentation of e-infrastructures and the need to maximize on global research data. Specifically, LEARN will address Stakeholder initiatives; Policy coordination; Take-up of digital infrastructures; and Support cooperation with developing countries. LEARN thus delivers support actions to quicken the take-up of RDM and the move to open data in the emerging world of Science 2.0.

Fields of science

• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › data science

Programme(s)

• H2020-EU.1.4.3. - Reinforcing European research infrastructure policy and international cooperation

Topic(s)

• INFRASUPP-7-2014 - e-Infrastructure policy development and international cooperation

Call for proposal

H2020-INFRASUPP-2014-2
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Funding Scheme

CSA - Coordination and support action

Coordinator

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

Address

Gower Street
WC1E 6BT London
United Kingdom

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

EU contribution

€ 200 894,50

Participants (4)

UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA

Spain

EU contribution

€ 55 125

Address

Gran Via De Les Corts Catalanes 585
08007 Barcelona

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

STICHTING LIBER

Netherlands

EU contribution

€ 77 500

Address

Pr Willem Alexanderhof 5
2595 BE Den Haag

Activity type

Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)

UNIVERSITAT WIEN

Austria

EU contribution

€ 71 750

Address

Universitatsring 1
1010 Wien

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Chile

EU contribution

€ 91 312,50

Address

Av Dag Hammarskjold 3477
Santiago De Chile

Activity type

Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)