In the Sorbonne Declaration signed in Paris earlier this week, the associations advocate making research data as openly accessible and reusable as possible. Private and personal data as well as intellectual property must be protected. The internationally established FAIR principle should be applied to data, according to which data should be findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable.
The associations demand from their respective governments to create the necessary political and legal framework for open research data and to provide the necessary funds for the technological infrastructure and research data management.