Data Management Plan. Deliverable 5.1 of the AGROECOLOGY Partnership

This deliverable defines the data management plan (DMP) elaborated for the European partnership AGROECOLOGY. The document outlines strategies and procedures for managing all types of research data assets generated and reused throughout the partnership's lifecycle, ensuring adherence to Horizon Europe guidelines. The document clarifies all administrative and technical concerns related to data involved in the whole project lifecycle. It emphasizes data quality, accessibility, and long-term preservation, covering data collection, storage, sharing, and preservation practices while addressing legal, ethical, and security considerations. This initial DMP aims to provide comprehensive guidelines for preserving data and other research outputs collected or generated during the partnership's implementation by consortium members and provide a strategy to promote the adoption of these general guidelines for the transnational research projects funded by the partnership. Effective data management practices, including accurate data recording, metadata documentation, and secure storage and dissemination of results, will be performed to ensure safe and reliable data preservation.
Given the diverse range of data expected over the partnership duration, the DMP incorporates various strategies for responsible data management and is regularly revised to accommodate newly generated data throughout the partnership's lifecycle. This first version provides information about the data management strategy and includes a first identification of the research data items and other research outputs. This process will last the partnership's duration in order to ensure that all types of research data are sufficiently addressed. After the initial gathering of information, all data items will be analysed, and the initial specific procedure to ensure data are properly managed will be improved.
New versions of the DMP document will be available periodically.