NET-Fuels Data Management Plan (DMP) V1.0

NET-Fuels is a publicly funded Horizon Europe project and as such is committed to following good practices of efficient and transparent data management as well as to implement the Open Science and Open Data mandate of the European Commission (EC). This data management plan (DMP) outlines the handling of data throughout the NET-Fuels project and by that it serves to ensure transparency and efficient cooperation within the project, thus guaranteeing a high-quality project implementation. Further, it provides orientation to the project partners as well as to third parties, such as researchers, policy-makers and other stakeholders, regarding the content, validity and accessibility of the project’s data and other outputs. The management of the NET-Fuels data aspires to respond to the specific needs of the project partners as well as to preserve their best practices in data handling, to harmonize them among the partners, and to integrate them with the requirements of good scientific practice as well as to those of the funding institution. It was thus co-created by the partners under the lead of REACH. For research data and other outputs that are potentially useful to third parties, the Horizon Europe Open Science rules are applied, which serve to encourage and facilitate the validation as well as the reuse of the project results. The FAIR principles will be implemented for research data (data should be findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable), but the consortium will also comply with those principles regarding any other kinds of outputs whenever it is to be expected that third parties benefit from them. This document contains an overview of the types of data and other outputs that are expected to result from the NET-Fuels project action, as well as the data management strategy adopted in this project. It further includes a detailed overview over the expected datasets and their respective handling procedures. In the Annex, a template of the dataset tables and the instructions that were provided to the partners can be found. The following document is the first of several versions which will at least be updated in time for the project reports and new versions of this document will be released (June 2024, December 2025, December 2026).The deliverable "NET-Fuels DMP" is useful to other projects, especially to those operating under the Horizon Europe framework. Further, the DMP is useful to all researchers and stakeholders interested in any of the NET-Fuels project's results, as it enables them to easily understand the data structure and handling of the entire project