Deliverable D4.4 reports on the progress and achievements of WP4 in the first 12 months of EUDAT2020 with respect to task 4.3 “Community Engagement” and task 4.4 “External Research & Standard Organizations Liaison”. It describes the start of the EUDAT working group process for this phase of the project, the first Call for Collaboration and the first EUDAT User Forum run by this second phase of EUDAT. In addition, EUDAT’s contacts with the RDA and the ESFRI clusters are described.