Continuity in data management plan: examples of the Horizon projects PoshBee and WildPosh

Abstract

peer reviewedBiodiversity is under multiple threats resulting from human activities. To document population trends and their drivers, multiple initiatives are organised at various spatial and taxonomical scale. The European initiative for pollinator conservation is an inspiring example of multiple actions, including research, aiming to monitor and mitigate pollinator decline. One of the challenges of multiple projects is to manage data following FAIR principle along projects. We present here the example of data management of two articulated European projects funded under the Horizon program: PoshBee and WildPosh. PoshBee and WildPosh are both multi-actor, transdisciplinary projects whose overarching mission are to significantly improve the evaluation of the risk to domesticated and wild pollinators of pesticide exposure and enhance the sustainable health of pollinators in Europe. The collected data sustain the results and are the base for the communication and dissemination over the scientific, social and political spheres to maximise the impact of the project. An effort was done and will be done to streamline the processing of data collection (e.g. shared protocols, template and associated metadata), data sharing (e.g. cross-WP workshops, data repository to upload the files), data manipulation (e.g. process to download the data), data analysis and ensuring data security (e.g. potential embargo) and ethics (e.g. acknowledgement of rights). EU Pollinator Hub is the repository for the WildPosh project. This hub was created to improve and centralise the efforts done on pollinator health and protection, and it is focused on data related to pollinators and the agricultural sectors. It aims to become the central place to go for stakeholders involved in pollinator health, to maximise the impact of the datasets. It provides open access to metadata, secured authentication for users, a streamlined procedure for data access and upload, versioning will be available, and a secured request procedure for data download.15. Life on lan