An invitation from Laura Himanen, a long-standing collaborator through CoARA's OI4RRA Working Group (Open Infrastructures for Responsible Research Assessment) and the GraspOS project, brought OpenAIRE to the 3rd Nordic Bibliometric Infrastructure Spring Meeting. What came as a genuine surprise was the discovery of a thriving and eagerly growing community working on research intelligence with a level of seriousness rare to find. The meeting crystallised something OpenAIRE has long argued: researc...

The French consortium Couperin has long been actively engaged in supporting open science infrastructures, fostering both their development and their uptake by the scientific community. In this context, it has steadily strengthened and diversified its support offer for its member institutions. This momentum is reflected in a significant increase in the number of proposals submitted, rising from two in 2019 to twenty-four in 2025, illustrating both the expansion of the scope of supported...

Did you know you can upload Open Access versions of your publications yourself in OpenAIRE CONNECT and EXPLORE? Making research openly available sometimes only takes one extra step. If a publication in OpenAIRE is currently listed without an Open Access version, you can help change that directly, in just a few clicks. Share Open Access versions in just a few clicks This feature, available in both CONNECT and EXPLORE, allows you to upload an Open Access version of your publication to Zenodo if on...

OpenAIRE recently participated in the 140th GIST Seminar, hosted by the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo, with additional engagements in Kyoto. The visit, co-organised by Kyoto University Library, provided an opportunity to present the OpenAIRE Graph and explore future collaboration around Open Science policies and research intelligence.   From Open Data to Open Research Intelligence At GRIPS, Dr. Andrea Mannocci from the OpenAIRE Graph team delivered the lect...

After more than fifteen years as Austria's National Open Access Desk (NOAD), Gerda McNeill is stepping into a new role, closing an important chapter in OpenAIRE's community network.Over the years, Gerda has played a key role in supporting the development of Open Science in Austria, working with national initiatives, connecting institutions and funders, and helping researchers navigate evolving practices around Open Access and research data. Along the way, she has also been an active member of th...

Controlling its research intelligence is a critical pillar of European digital sovereignty. We explored this intersection at the European Economic and Social Committee's Civil Society Week 2026 during the Media and digital resilience as safeguards of democracy session. Despite the large amount of research generated by European academics, the infrastructure, analytics, and metadata that steer our scientific focus (research intelligence) are frequently controlled by foreign companies with their ow...

OpenAIRE actively participated in the EOSC Winter School 2026, held in Nice, France, from 27–29 January 2026, contributing its expertise to discussions on advancing and operationalising the EOSC Federation. Organised by the EOSC Association with support from the EOSC Gravity project, the event brought together more than 170 stakeholders to focus on onboarding processes, interoperability, and skills development across the EOSC ecosystem. Engaging the community on EOSC EU Node development Through ...

The EVERSE project was established to transform how Europe's research community approaches software quality. At the two-year mark, its services are now well consolidated, and its strategic priority is ready to transition from implementation to dissemination, enabling researchers to enhance the quality and sustainability of their software through structured, community-driven methodologies. As project coordinator, Fotis Psomopoulos emphasised at EVERSE's second General Assembly at CERN, that this ...

A virtual unconference (also called a barcamp) is a participant-driven event where the agenda is created collaboratively by attendees rather than set in advance by organisers. Instead of formal presentations, participants propose discussion topics beforehand, and sessions are then scheduled based on interest. The format places strong emphasis on networking and peer exchange, which offered participants an informal space to connect and reconnect with their fellow OpenAIRE Open Science Train-the-Tr...

Since October, Joeri Both has been serving as Chair of OpenAIRE's Executive Board. Stepping into the role shortly after the Open Science Fair in September, he began his mandate at a moment that highlighted both the strength of the OpenAIRE community and the growing global momentum behind Open Science.A few months into his chairmanship, we spoke with Joeri about his first experiences in the role and how OpenAIRE continues to build on the foundations laid under the leadership of the Board's previo...

On February 6, 2026, Pro-M Zrt. and the University of Debrecen University and National Library (DEENK) organized the popular online event, the Hungarian Open Science Forum, for the thirteenth time. The two-hour online event attracted 135 participants, and after the presentations, a very informative and thought-provoking Q&A session closed the day. The Forum traditionally covers the most current topics related to open science, and this time was no different. Three outstanding presentations pr...

The Interoperability & Networks for Open Science Working Group of the Couperin consortium has developed IMPACT-R, a poster in French addressing the key challenges of interoperability, sustainability, and robustness in research repositories. IMPACT-R provides a clear and operational synthesis of the seven pillars underpinning a sustainable, interoperable repository infrastructure capable of anticipating technological developments, particularly those related to artificial intelligence. The pos...

OpenAIRE hosted the second workshop in its series on Collaborative Pathways to Responsible Research Assessment (RRA) via Open Infrastructures, following the first successful hands-on session at the Open Science Fair 2025 at CERN. This new workshop brought together a diverse community of research managers, infrastructure providers, policy specialists, and open science practitioners committed to advancing RRA by understanding what infrastructures need to deliver in practice. The workshop continued...

The OpenAIRE Graph is a global open infrastructure linking over 400 million metadata records from more than 100,000 trusted sources. It provides interconnected metadata on publications, research data, software, grants, institutional affiliations, and impact indicators. As part of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) initiative, a unified digital space for European research, the OpenAIRE Graph plays a critical role in making research more accessible across Europe and beyond. Through our partici...

From 13 to 16 January 2026, OpenAIRE hosted its bi-annual technical meeting in Athens, bringing together the OpenAIRE technical team to reflect on the evolution of the OpenAIRE infrastructure in practice. Discussions focused on how its core systems, data architecture, and service layer are developed, aligned, and scaled, while also looking ahead to the next generation of OpenAIRE services and architectural priorities, explored in more detail in this blog post on what's next for the OpenAIRE infr...

From 13 to 16 January 2026, the OpenAIRE team gathered in Athens for a four-day journey into the heart of Europe's open research ecosystem, exploring innovations and improvements in the Open Science landscape.Over intense, in-depth sessions, participants combined strategic planning, technical exploration, and hands-on collaboration, all aimed at shaping the next phase of OpenAIRE services and infrastructure. The meeting brought together technical teams, the office team, and Executive Board membe...

The challenge of measuring what truly counts How can a country, and specifically its academic community, truly understand the impact of its scholarly research? The question is more complex than it seems, especially when the final research products are scattered across multiple platforms, resulting in a picture that is often incomplete and difficult to compare. Greece, through the Hellenic Academic Libraries Link (HEAL-Link), addresses this problem with an ambitious new infrastructure: ABACUS (Ac...

Simply being open is not enough; infrastructure must also be enduring. The Open Science movement stands at a critical juncture. While the principle of making research outputs "open" is now widely accepted as a prerequisite for progress, the true challenge remains: achieving long-term sustainability for the core infrastructures that make this openness possible.  This was the central question explored at the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information's recent Working Group 5 session o...

On 24 November 2025, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) and the Athena Research Center (ARC) brought together members of the Greek research community for an event dedicated to the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information. Hosted at the Law School Library's Small Amphitheatre, the gathering reaffirmed the growing momentum in Greece toward more transparent, interoperable, and community-driven research information systems. The evening opened with insights from Bianc...

This blog was jointly written with Elli Papadopoulou. In Greece and Sweden, emergency departments face a common challenge: patients arriving with ambiguous symptoms that could signal either minor issues or life-threatening conditions. Doctors at AHEPA Hospital in Thessaloniki and hospitals using the CLEOS system in Sweden have been collecting rich triage data, vital signs, symptoms, medical histories, but sharing and jointly analyzing these datasets has been nearly impossible. The data contain s...