Interdisciplinary review on One Water Data & FAIR paradigm

You will be welcomed in the unit UMR 1069 SAS (https://umrsas.rennes.hub.inrae.fr/) which develops researches on interactions between agriculture and the environment and develops digital services for archiving, publishing, and reusing research data and models produced and used in UMR SAS in the form of interoperable APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). The post-doc position is part of a synthesis project of the PEPR One Water – Eau Bien Commun  – Water as a Common Good project, one of the Priority Research Programmes and Facilities launched under the Future Investment Plan (PIA4) by France 2030, with the aim of ‘Understanding and innovating for viable, equitable and sustainable water management’. As part of your duties, you will take part in the various events organised by the National Programme.  Your mission will be to coordinate an interdisciplinary review on the “Application of the FAIR paradigm to water data: reality, power and limitations” focusing on France, then expanding the scope to Europe and the international level for interlinked and cross-border frameworks. You will coordinate the writing of a synthesis paper with a group of 5-8 researchers from various disciplines (digital sciences, open science, hydrology, hydrogeology, hydrogeochemisty, hydrobiology, social and economic sciences applied to water…). This synthesis will be a critical and documented analysis of open and FAIR data as a necessary condition for changing the current management paradigm and for having water recognized as a common good, intended for the water sciences community in all its disciplinary diversity. Your review will aim at diagnosing the level of fragmentation of water data and its consequences for research and for management. You will also identify improvement perspectives by sharing a clear definition of what Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability is, and selecting use cases for illustrating success or failure. You will analyze the limitation associated with open and FAIR data, including risks related to validity limits, use of artificial intelligence, institutional and cultural limitations. You will be more specifically in charge of: Synthesizing the state-of-the-art, criticizing and improving the first analysis made by the group Organizing an interdisciplinary work seminary to compare your synthesis with other expert opinions and with perspectives from stakeholders in the water sector  Write a scientific article presenting this synthesis and submit it to an international peer-reviewed scientific journal Write a popular science version of the previous review for publication in a relevant media