RDA is an international initiative with over 12,000 individual data professionals. It provides the neutral collaborative platform where international research data experts meet to exchange views and to agree on topics including social hurdles on data sharing and re-use, education and training, data management plans and certification of data repositories, disciplinary and interdisciplinary interoperability, as well as technological aspects. As a volunteer network, the expertise and over 50 recommendations and outputs can be leverage upon as in-kind resources and contributions to the project.