The STRONG2020 and Radio MonteCarLow activities

For over 15 years the Radio MonteCarLow WG (``Radiative Corrections and Monte Carlo Generators for Low Energies Working Group''), has provided valuable support to the development of radiative corrections and Monte Carlo generators for low energy $e^+e^-$ data and $\tau$-lepton decays. The working group, composed of theoretical and experimental experts from the $e^+e^-$ physics and  $\tau$ communities, have published the highly cited report {\textit{``Quest for precision in hadronic cross sections at low energy: Monte Carlo tools vs. experimental data''}}~\cite{MonteCarLowReport}.
Parts of the Radio MonteCarLow WG  program have recently been included as a Joint Research Initiative in the group application of the European hadron physics community, STRONG2020, with a more specific goal of creating an annotated database for low-energy hadronic cross sections in $e^+e^-$ collisions. The database will contain information about the reliability of the data sets, their systematic errors, and the treatment of radiative corrections.