OpenAIRE’s Annual Report 2024 shows a year of strong governance, active service development, and real community impact. It highlights how our members shaped decisions and strategy, ensuring a transparent and collaborative organisation. We expanded and strengthened our open scholarly communication services, improving quality and trust while supporting researchers, institutions, and funders in practice. Our NOAD network drove national engagement, delivered training, and supported open science adoption across Europe. We deepened partnerships across the research ecosystem and played a central role in EOSC, contributing our services, expertise, and community leadership to build a trusted and interoperable European research space.