Start and End Date

01 February 2020-28 February 2023

Coordinator

HVL - HOGSKULEN PA VESTLANDET (WESTERN NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES)

Project Total Budget

€999,912.50

Turkish Partners

Izmir University of Economics

Supported Framework Program

H2020

eera data

Transparent, re-usable, and integrated energy data enable society to choose, monitor, and implement sustainable transition pathways. It is not only a prerequisite for people to have ownership over the changes, but it is also offering huge potential for industrial and social innovation. However, the majority of energy databases is not fit for this purpose.

EERAdata project aims to develop, test, and implement a FAIR and open data ecosystem in the energy field. FAIR stands for F-findable, A-accessible, I-interoperable, and R-re-usable. The EU-funded EERAdata project builds a pool of data stewards to guide the community towards fit-for-purpose data practices.

The transition towards low carbon and sustainable energy systems requires the integration of interdisciplinary and complex data.  The majority of databases are unfit for deploying advanced analytical tools by humans and machines, causing forgone opportunities arising from advanced ICT solutions. To this end, EERAdata project follows an approach not only accounting for physical and technical attributes, but also socio-economic and environmental ones.

Transparent and integrated management of energy data with useful metadata, information and quality assurance provides the basis for society to choose, monitor, and implement sustainable transition pathways; and for the industry (particularly energy sector) to be innovative.  Therefore, databases need to adhere to the principles of open and FAIR data (findability, accessibility, interoperability, re-usability). However, the concepts and infrastructures for FAIR and open data management are currently not existing in low carbon energy research.

The overall objective of EERAdata is to develop, explore, and test a FAIR and open data ecosystem. This new data infrastructure is established through the broad involvement of the energy research community in a series of workshops, and covers essential aspects of data-driven low carbon energy research. EERAdata also implements an open platform for uniform and seamless access to energy data and establishes a pool of experts and data stewards to facilitate a mental shift in the community towards FAIR and open data practices.

A key element is the active linking of EERAdata to national initiatives, the European Open Science Cloud, the Research Data Alliance, and others. In this way, the project builds a critical mass to explore the prospects of large-scale FAIR and open energy data.

Keywords: Data, meta-data, open data, FAIR, energy data, database, platform

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