diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 7b7a628347..67ac523548 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ web/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/data/config/schema_plugins/*/schematron/schematron*.
 web/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/data/config/schema_plugins/csw-record
 web/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/data/config/schema_plugins/dublin-core
 web/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/data/config/schema_plugins/iso19*
+web/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/data/config/schema_plugins/dcat2
 web/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/data/config/schema_plugins/schemaplugin-uri-catalog.xml
 web/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/data/config/schemaplugin-uri-catalog.xml
 web/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/data/config/encryptor.properties
diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 67303aee7d..407ed19277 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -10,3 +10,6 @@
 [submodule "docs/manuals"]
 	path = docs/manuals
 	url = https://github.com/geonetwork/doc.git
+[submodule "schemas/dcat2"]
+	path = schemas/dcat2
+	url = https://github.com/metadata101/dcat2
diff --git a/schemas/dcat2 b/schemas/dcat2
new file mode 160000
index 0000000000..6e17ca2751
--- /dev/null
+++ b/schemas/dcat2
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 6e17ca275180c396629870412245fa430c8665d5
diff --git a/schemas/pom.xml b/schemas/pom.xml
index 9d737b6e89..0b31426379 100644
--- a/schemas/pom.xml
+++ b/schemas/pom.xml
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
     <module>iso19110</module>
     <module>iso19139</module>
     <module>iso19115-3.2018</module>
+    <module>dcat2</module>
   </modules>
 
   <profiles>
diff --git a/web/pom.xml b/web/pom.xml
index 5d2a583ca6..418c75f8c3 100644
--- a/web/pom.xml
+++ b/web/pom.xml
@@ -618,6 +618,11 @@
       <artifactId>gn-schema-iso19115-3.2018</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.geonetwork-opensource.schemas</groupId>
+      <artifactId>gn-schema-dcat2</artifactId>
+      <version>${project.version}</version>
+    </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
   <build>
@@ -993,6 +998,13 @@
                       <overWrite>false</overWrite>
                       <outputDirectory>${schema-plugins.dir}</outputDirectory>
                     </artifactItem>
+                    <artifactItem>
+                      <groupId>org.geonetwork-opensource.schemas</groupId>
+                      <artifactId>gn-schema-dcat2</artifactId>
+                      <type>zip</type>
+                      <overWrite>false</overWrite>
+                      <outputDirectory>${schema-plugins.dir}</outputDirectory>
+                    </artifactItem>
                   </artifactItems>
                 </configuration>
               </execution>