D1.4 - Sustainability Plan

FAIR-IMPACT: Expanding FAIR solutions across EOSC ran from June 2022 to May 2025 and included 28 partners from 11 countries. The project sought to build on the successful practices, policies, tools, and technical specifications arising from FAIRsFAIR, other Horizon 2020 projects and initiatives, and from the EOSC Association Task Forces, such as the one on FAIR metrics and data quality. By enabling the FAIR principles for EOSC across scientific communities, stakeholder groups, and research outputs at a European, national, and institutional level, FAIR-IMPACT improved access to and management of FAIR research outputs and stimulated the development and uptake of a wide range of innovative services. By translating and implementing FAIR solutions across domains, the project also contributed to multi-disciplinary scientific cooperation. With its focus on increasing FAIRness, FAIR-IMPACT improved public trust in, and reproducibility of, science, transforming the way researchers share and exploit research outputs. The ultimate aim of this was to support better quality, validation, and higher research productivity. 

This report details the sustainability planning for the 19 project outputs identified as important for EOSC and the global research community. These outputs are categorised as Key Exploitable Results (KER), Key Outputs (KO), and Key Functions (KF), representing a wide range of recommendations, guidelines, policies, best practices, frameworks, tools, and services.