OPEN SCIENCE: SHARING DATA, TOOLS AND WORKFLOWS A STRATEGY TO INSPIRE EFFICIENT COLLABORATION

The H2020 Work Programme is a milestone for the transition to Science 2.0: the era of  Open Science (OS) will increase the drive towards collaboration through knowledge sharing across the European Research Area.

In particular, the Open Data (OD) policy aims at making digital assets, i.e. data, tools and workflows FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable) [1]: available to everyone in Europe.

FAIR assets allow to reuse data in multiple applications which multiplies the data value thus optimizing the impact of projects funded by public money.  NO PANIC: to respect Industry foregrounds Research data must be as open as possible and as closed s necessary!

The wind energy community generally agrees that sharing assets would shorten the time from new ideas to innovation, making the work more efficient; BUT assets provide a competitive advantage, leading to a reluctance to sharing important data.  WHAT TO DO THEN?

We suggest a simple strategy to energize the free flow of information amongst the European wind energy stakeholders, increasing collaboration by sharing research data including data, software and workflows.