The French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation

France will support the Research Data Alliance (RDA), an international network that etsablishes best practices concerning research data. It will support the Research Data Alliance as an international community driven forum for the resolution and development of research data management, open science, data interoperability and FAIR challenges, a concrete action outlined in the PNSO. The French Ministry have wasted no time in delivering on that commitment by supporting the RDA French national activities and financially contributing to the RDA Secretariat (responsible for the daily operations).

As outlined in the French National Strategy for Open Science (Plan National pour la Science Ouverte PNSO [1]), launched by MESRI in July 2018, France is committed to making scientific research results open to all – researchers, companies, citizens. This national strategy outlines three major commitments to achieve this objective: Generalising Open Access to publications, Structuring research data and making it available through open access, and being part of a sustainable European and International Open Science dynamic. The Research Data Alliance, whose mission is to build the social and technical bridges to enable the open sharing and re-use of data, can support the French Ministry and the national stakeholders to achieve all of these objectives. In the area of research data management and services, the pre-eminent organisation for ensuring globally developed services is RDA.

France will support the Research Data Alliance (RDA), an international network that establishes best practices concerning research data. It will support the Research Data Alliance as an international community driven forum for the resolution and development of research data management, open science, data interoperability and FAIR challenges, a concrete action outlined in the PNSO. The French Ministry have wasted no time in delivering on that commitment by supporting the RDA French national activities and financially contributing to the RDA Secretariat (responsible for the daily operations).

• The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (Ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l'Innovation, MESRI) is a ministry (government department) of France overseeing university-level education and research. The department has its head office in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. As of 2017 Frédérique Vidal is the minister of this department. Visit the Ministry web page.

• The RDA French National node is managed by Francoise Genova (Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg) and Francis André (CNRS-DIST).  The node has begun and will continue to  discuss RDA activities with MESRI, research organisations and universities, research infrastructures, in particular those of the National Roadmap and research communities. It organises specific meetings or participates in meetings organised by others to present RDA activities.  Have a look at the  RDA in France web page to keep up to date with ongoing activities and contact the node coordinators at contact-rdafrance@services.cnrs.fr if you have questions or comments, or to propose an activity.