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...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

OpenAIRE, ScienceOpen and Digital-science (with their portfolio companies Figshare and Overleaf), have teamed up to organise an OpenCon ‘satellite’ event to be held in Berlin on the 24-26th November.This event will form one of the many international satellite events of the main OpenCon 2016 conference that will take place two weeks earlier in Washington, DC.OpenCon is the student and early career academic professional conference that focuses on Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data. It seek...