FAIR-EASE - D.4.1: FAIR-EASE Services - sustainability plan

This document presents the sustainability plan of the results from FAIR-EASE. Sustainability consists of several ingredients including technical, financial, political and promotional aspects. This is also grounded in a rich, federated and evolving ecosystem, participates in the building of the European Open Science Cloud, fosters close collaborations with other EOSC and non-EOSC related projects, and participates in a wide variety of European policies.  The recent organisation of EOSC into a Federation of Nodes has been taken into consideration as a way to guarantee a long term potential sustainability for some of the FAIR-EASE results.  It  is  noteworthy that  if  all  FAIR-EASE  results  have  reached  a  technological  readiness  level  of  7, increasing  this  level  necessitates  another  economic  model  (from  project  funding  to  recurrent funding  scheme)  where  sustained  funding  is  ensured.  This  remains  the  bottleneck  of  the sustainability plan. As FAIR-EASE results are interrelated, levels from upstream results (access to data services, analyses tools) impacts downstream results (services to end-users).