This document outlines the sustainability and exploitation strategy and plans for the WorldFAIR project, which sets out to produce recommendations, interoperability frameworks and guidelines for FAIR data assessment. As we move forward, ensuring the sustainability of our efforts and effectively exploiting our outcomes are crucial for maximising impact and long-term success.
The deliverable first outlines the anticipated – and in some cases already documented – impact of the results in policy, knowledge transfer and capacity building, innovation and adoption, environmental and social and health areas. Each deliverable is mapped under its primary impact area. Please also see: https://worldfair-project.eu/impact/.
Next, the sustainability models are outlined. The models utilised by each case study, as well as by the project as a whole are as follows:
● Take-up, adoption and adaptation by organisations, especially international organisations
● Community support, enabled by platforms such as RDA or CODATA
● Project-based sustainability based on targeted funding
● Document-based sustainability.
The sustainability mechanisms, i.e., actions undertaken during the lifetime of the project, which formed the basis for the successful exploitation of project results, are also outlined. Emphasis is placed on the WorldFAIR+ project, an upcoming initiative that will continue the legacy of the current work with the 11 case studies and the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework.
The deliverable includes detailed descriptions of the case-study-specific approaches.
The full report is available on Zenodo.
