Result description
The Starter Kit provides support for the creation of new professional and sustainable communities. Professional communities play a key role in the context of Skills4EOSC Competence Centre network as they are seen as a tool for lifelong learning through peers.
Problem addressed
The starter kit addresses the challenges related to the emergence of data stewardship as a professional identity within Open Science and Open Data initiatives. It helps in defining responsibilities, roles, and skills for data stewards, facilitates the formation of data steward communities, and provides guidance on organizing and sustaining these communities. It also draws from different community organization models and references social psychology and management theory to support effective team building.