Dr. Paul Ayris, Pro Vice-Provost & Director of Library Services at University College London.

This paper will set the LEARN project and its deliverables in the context of the ‘Data Deluge’. It will look particularly at Open Science as a driver for greater visibility for research data; explain how LEARN can make a difference to Research Data Management at an institutional level; and examine the emerging LEARN deliverables – the exemplar Research Data Management Policy and the Executive Briefing. It will also look at another LEARN deliverable, the LEARN Tookit for Best Practice and analyse some of the main findings. The paper will close by painting a vision of a brave new world – the European Open Science Cloud.