Few standards for FAIR and open data in the low carbon energy research community exist as of today. EERAdata proposes standards, which are tested in use cases and discussed with the wider research community. EERAdata established connections to European-level energy and data communities, such as the European Energy Research Alliance, the Research Data Alliance, various EU projects and initiatives around FAIR data (e.g. OpenAIRE, CESSDA, …) or the Open Modelling Forum. Through their networks, we a) promoted the project (i.e. FAIR and open data principles in the energy domain), b) recruited speakers, presenters, and participants to our workshops, and c) participated ourselves in their events to present the work EERAdata does. The EERAdata consortium played an active role in establishing a new transversal Joint Program in EERA, namely the tJP Digitalization for Energy (from 01/2021). EERAdata use case leader Massimo Celino is the co-leader of the Joint Program. EERAdata leader Valeria Jana Schwanitz is the leader of one of its subprograms, namely “Data science and artificial intelligence”. FAIR and open data topics are being discussed in the community using EERAdata and the new EERA structure. The EERAdata platform serves the community by providing access to a large knowledge resource on FAIR energy data, comprising a hands-on workflow for the FAIRification process, practical step-by-step support as well as rich information on FAIRification in general and specific to low-carbon energy research (the EERAdata wiki). Training material and links to a large set of further information sources beyond the project have been collected for all aspects covered by the FAIR data principles. Metadata and possible standards have and are being a recurring theme at EERAdata workshops, and made available documentation from the workshops on our wiki and through scientific manuscripts on the role of metadata for the energy domain, gaps identified, and action items suggested to tackle shortcomings. The platform features a tool for creating rich metadata for a given data object in accordance with existing standards, adds this metadata to the searchable repository on the platform and provides metadata file download in machine-readable form. This increases findability and interoperability of data object. Finally, two policy briefs have been delivered, available here:
https://eeradata-platform.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page#Policy_briefs