diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index f01c4ed..0b6968e 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ project(EDM4EIC
   LANGUAGES CXX)
 
 SET( ${PROJECT_NAME}_VERSION_MAJOR 8 )
-SET( ${PROJECT_NAME}_VERSION_MINOR 1 )
+SET( ${PROJECT_NAME}_VERSION_MINOR 2 )
 SET( ${PROJECT_NAME}_VERSION_PATCH 0 )
 SET( ${PROJECT_NAME}_VERSION  "${${PROJECT_NAME}_VERSION_MAJOR}.${${PROJECT_NAME}_VERSION_MINOR}.${${PROJECT_NAME}_VERSION_PATCH}" )
 
diff --git a/edm4eic.yaml b/edm4eic.yaml
index fc10152..263d06c 100644
--- a/edm4eic.yaml
+++ b/edm4eic.yaml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 ## If there are schema version changes that can be evolved, see the podio documentation
 ## for an example: https://github.com/AIDASoft/podio/tree/master/tests/schema_evolution
 ##
-schema_version: 801
+schema_version: 820
 
 options :
   # should getters / setters be prefixed with get / set?
@@ -203,6 +203,18 @@ datatypes:
       - float             floatData       // Iff elementType==1, values are stored here
       - int64_t           int64Data       // Iff elementType==7, values are stored here
 
+  edm4eic::PodioMetadataPair:
+    Description: "Stores a key-value pair for values of type belonging to podio::SupportedGenericDataTypes"
+    Author: "D. Kalinkin"
+    Members:
+      - int32_t           valueType       // Type of the value
+      - int               intValue        // Iff valueType==0
+      - float             floatValue      // Iff valueType==1
+      - double            doubleValue     // Iff valueType==3
+    VectorMembers:
+      - char              key             // Key string
+      - char              stringValue     // Iff valueType==2
+
   ## ==========================================================================
   ## Simulation info
   ## ==========================================================================