DE LA CUEVA GONZALEZ COTERA JAVIER

Their core work

Javier de la Cueva is a Spanish legal professional (abogado) who provides specialized legal and policy expertise to EU-funded research projects in the food and nutrition data domain. His contributions focus on the legal frameworks surrounding data sharing, open data governance, FAIR data principles, and responsible research and innovation. Across three H2020 projects, he has consistently supported research infrastructures that deal with consumer health data, food nutrition clouds, and community-driven food science — always from the regulatory and legal compliance angle.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

The early project (RICHFIELDS, 2015) focused on linked data sharing for consumer health and food intake — a foundational data infrastructure challenge. From 2019 onward, the focus shifted toward cloud-based food nutrition security (FNS-Cloud) and community-driven food consumer science (COMFOCUS), with explicit emphasis on FAIR principles, responsible research and innovation, and transnational access. The trajectory shows a clear move from basic data infrastructure legalities toward the more mature governance challenges of open science compliance and cross-border research communities.

Moving toward the legal and policy dimensions of open science, FAIR compliance, and transnational research access — areas of growing importance as the EU tightens open data requirements.

How they like to work

Always participates as a specialist contributor within large consortia — never as coordinator. With 55 unique partners across 20 countries from just 3 projects, this indicates involvement in major multi-partner research infrastructures where legal expertise is embedded alongside technical and scientific teams. This is a niche contributor you bring in for specific legal and policy work, not a project driver.

Connected to 55 unique partners across 20 countries through large-scale food and nutrition research infrastructure projects. The broad geographic spread reflects the pan-European nature of the research infrastructure and food security consortia he serves.

What sets them apart

The combination of legal expertise and deep domain knowledge in food and nutrition data governance is rare in EU project ecosystems. Most consortia struggle to find legal professionals who understand both FAIR data principles and the specific regulatory landscape of consumer health and food data. For any consortium building a food data infrastructure or research community that needs to handle transnational access, data sharing agreements, or open science compliance, this is a proven specialist with a track record across three successive projects in exactly this niche.

Highlights from their portfolio

• FNS-Cloud
  Largest funding share (EUR 130,638) and most ambitious scope — building a cloud infrastructure for food nutrition security data across Europe.
• COMFOCUS
  Most recent project with the richest keyword profile, explicitly addressing FAIR principles, transnational access, and responsible research and innovation in food consumer science.