Abstract
The Horizon Europe projects MatCHMaker, AddMorePower, AID4GREENEST, CoBRAIN, KNOWSKITE-X and D-STANDART came together to provide their approaches to, and issues with each of the stages of the data lifecycle. The workshop attendees (both representants of the projects and external attendees) discussed future developments for improvement and best practice for how they may plan, acquire, process, analyse, preserve, and share their data. The projects cover a range of industries, and thus, are using a variety of characterisation and materials modelling techniques which may not be reciprocated by a sister project. However, what they have in common is dealing with a plethora of data that undergo a lifecycle from being created to bearing knowledge.