In May, the European University Alliance EU-CONEXUS forged a partnership with OpenAIRE. This partnership opens the gateway to a treasure of knowledge, accessible through the EU-CONEXUS OpenAIRE Gateway. Researchers and a wider scientific community now have an invaluable opportunity to delve into extensive research outputs focusing on urban and semi-urban coastal areas.
The EU-CONEXUS OpenAIRE Gateway is positioned to play a pivotal role in advancing visibility and collaboration not only within the EU-CONEXUS research community, spanning nine European countries, but also a wider research ecosystem. This heightened visibility generates tangible benefits for all stakeholders involved, facilitating seamless knowledge sharing and amplifying the overall impact of research endeavours.
“Through the EU-CONEXUS OpenAIRE Gateway, the whole spectrum of EU-CONEXUS research is accessible to a broad community through a single access window without searching for it at individual partner institutions. In addition, it is a perfect tool for the EU-CONEXUS research community to discover their mutual strengths and complementaries more easily.” Udo Kragl, Chair of the EU-CONEXUS Research Council
“Our collaboration with EU-CONEXUS opens up exciting opportunities for OpenAIRE, granting us access to invaluable knowledge and extensive research outputs dedicated to coastal urban areas.” Paolo Manghi, OpenAIRE CTO
At present, the Gateway offers, via the OpenAIRE Connect service, access to a rich and comprehensive collection of resources, including 60,000 publications, 224 research projects, 4,000 research datasets, and over 1,000 additional research products from EU-CONEXUS research teams.
ABOUT:
EU-CONEXUS: The European University for Smart Urban Coastal Sustainability EU-CONEXUS promotes common European values and a strengthened European identity by bringing together a new generation of Europeans who can cooperate and work within different European cultures, in different languages, and across borders, sectors, and academic disciplines. EU-CONEXUS is committed to creating a new institutional framework for higher education in Europe that allows for a truly European way of studying and carrying out research through institutional alignment and seamless mobility for all.
Within the thematic framework of Smart Urban Coastal Sustainability (SmUCS), EU-CONEXUS focuses its research & innovation, education and knowledge-sharing activities on societal challenges that are linked to a specific geographical location –urban and semi-urbanised coastal (rivers and oceans) regions. SmUCS is not a subject-driven thematic framework, but a challenge-driven domain of education and research.
EU-CONEXUS bases its activities on the principles of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable), which is promoted among its researchers in particular in the H2020-SwafS (Science with and for Society) project EU-CONEXUS Research for Society. This ambitious 3-year project encourages researchers to engage in joint international science and opens up new ways of interacting with other research communities and innovation ecosystems
OpenAIRE-NEXUS: The Horizon 2020 OpenAIRE-Nexus project, a consortium of 11 partners, brings in Europe, EOSC and the world a set of services to implement and accelerate Open Science and tools to embed in researchers' workflows, making it easier for them to accept and uptake Open Science practices of openness and FAIRness.
OpenAIRE: OpenAIRE is a Non-Profit Partnership, established in 2018 as a legal entity, OpenAIRE A.M.K.E, to ensure a permanent open scholarly communication infrastructure and support research in Europe and beyond. OpenAIRE is making Open Science happen. Collectively and in practical ways. Its fields of expertise and activities include services, policies and training. Operating since 2009, OpenAIRE is an integral part and a leading force behind the European Open Science Cloud developments.
