Laura Valeria Bonora is an economist with a Master’s degree in Applied Statistics. She currently serves as Spain’s National Contact Point (NCP) for the Research Infrastructures and Widening (Open Access) programme under Horizon Europe at the European Commission.

In parallel, she works at the Open Science Unit of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), where she is the technical lead for RECOLECTA, the National Open Access Repositories Aggregator in Spain. She is also actively involved in several leading international open science initiatives, such as the Confederation of Open Access Repositories COAR, OpenAIRE AMKE and  the Federated Network of Institutional Repositories of Scientific Publications (LA Referencia).

In addition, she serves as Technical Secretariat of the international multi-thematic EU-LAC Joint Call in Science, Technology and Innovation (STI), which aims to promote research and innovation projects between the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean.