Going back to UNESCO Headquarters for the first Global Conference of the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development meant something specific to me. A few years ago, as President of Eurodoc, I took part in the consultation that fed into the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, arguing for the importance of open infrastructures, a point that made it into the final text. This time, I was in Paris representing OpenAIRE and discussing the practical work of building and connecting ...