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 supports OA infrastructure in Europe and beyond, to help realize Open Science for the benefit of society, innovation and industry. OpenAIRE2020, the current project phase, is investigating a full complement of scholarly communication building blocks, including research data management support, gold open access, usage statistics, Linked Open Data, a publication broker and global interoperability. As part of this effort, Göttingen State and University Library, in partnership with COUPERIN...