Community Support and Engagement for FAIR Science in Climate Change Adaptation

Global climate change requires urgent and actionable adaptation planning.

Current Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) strategies often lack the necessary data and other relevant information to be scientifically competent. These limitations can complicate effective action and evaluation locally, and in combination with other regions. The recently awarded FAIR2Adapt Project aims to establish a comprehensive FAIR and open data framework for CCA and to demonstrate the impact of FAIR data on CCA strategies. By making CCA data FAIR, FAIR2Adapt will accelerate adaptation actions that are tailored to local needs.

Next to the technical development of FAIR data and services, a key issue in the effective uptake  of FAIR is the transfer of knowledge regarding FAIR practices, and in many cases hands-on skills related to the design, creation and governance of domain-relevant FAIR Enabling Resources.  Beginning in February 2025, the FAIR2Adapt, stakeholders (including members of it’s six use cases) will participate in FAIR awareness and training based on the GO FAIR Foundation’s FAIR Capacity Building Programme [https://zenodo.org/records/14187859]. This will include general FAIR Awareness workshops, training on the creation of FAIR Implementation Profiles and community-specific metadata and vocabulary in Metadata for Machine workshops. In addition to this, special attention will be given to the identification and prioritization of user requirements (both the technical approach in FAIR2Adapt as well as the case studies). Having both the technical expertise and building up the salient knowledge and skills, the FAIR2Adapt community will be well positioned to co-design, implement and share CCA related data and services that can accelerate meaningful and customized CCA. In this presentation, we will report the first draft user requirements for FAIR2Adapt and the emerging list of CCA community-specific FAIR Enabling Resources.