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Public Consultation: Shaping Open Infrastructures for Responsible Research Assessment
| Angeliki Tzouganatou
Research assessment shapes careers, funding, and institutional priorities, yet many systems remain opaque and exclusive. Relying on proprietary, black-box metrics, they fail to capture the full diversity of research contributions and global scholarship. To change this, the CoARA Working Group ‘’Towards Open Infrastructures for Responsible Res…

OpenAIRE PROVIDE: New Validated Badge
| Konstantinos Kavallaris
OpenAIRE PROVIDE now offers a Validated Badge for repositories and data sources that meet OpenAIRE Guidelines through the OpenAIRE Metadata Validator. A mark of trust and compliance, helping repositories showcase their commitment to global standards.

Discover the New OpenAIRE MONITOR & CONNECT Websites!
| Alane Brunschweiger
See what's new in our revamped MONITOR and CONNECT websites! With improved structures and user-friendly interfaces, we’ve made sure that whether you're a new user or an experienced one, you can easily find what you need.

Impact of Research Software - Open Innovation Sprint Begins in March 2025
| Stefania Amodeo
A new initiative has been launched to tackle open source and open science challenges with community-driven solutions. The Open Innovation Sprints are being coordinated by NumFOCUS, the Research Software Alliance (ReSA), and Open Source Collective, with support from OpenAIRE and other organizations. Keep reading and learn all the details!

FAIRCORE4EOSC at FAIRFEST: Advancing Research Discovery with RDGraph and PIDs
| Konstantinos Kavallaris
The FAIRFEST event, a key gathering for the Open Science community, recently hosted a presentation on the Research Discovery Graph (RDGraph) and the role of Persistent Identifiers (PIDs). The session, led by Carole Goble and over 40 experts, highlighted how RDGraph—an integral part of the OpenAIRE Graph—enhances research discovery and interoperabi…
Unlocking the Power of Repositories: Lessons from Ireland’s Open Access Journey
| Konstantinos Kavallaris
Our third Open Insights session, held on February 13, 2025, explored the role of institutional repositories in advancing Ireland’s goal of 100% Open Access. OpenAIRE’s Leonidas Pispiringas shared best practices for repository data integration into the OpenAIRE Graph, while Cillian Joy (University of Galway) highlighted collaborative efforts to enh…

OpenAIRE Awarded Development of National Infrastructure for Mapping Greece’s Research Activity, Under the Auspices of HEAL-Link
| Konstantinos Kavallaris
A New Era for Greek Research! OpenAIRE and HEAL-Link are joining forces to develop Greece’s National Infrastructure for Mapping Research Activity! This groundbreaking initiative will enhance transparency, collaboration, and innovation in scholarly communication across the country.

Reflections on IDCC25: Exploring the Future of Digital Curation and Research Data Management
| Stefania Amodeo
At the recent International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC25), OpenAIRE presented a lightning talk on "Combining Algorithms and Human Expertise: OpenAIRE's Entity Disambiguation Method." Delivered by Stefania Amodeo, the presentation highlighted OpenAIRE's innovative approach to maintaining high-quality metadata in the OpenAIRE Graph.

LLMs4Europe Launches: Europe Builds Its Own fine-tuned Large Language Models for Key Sectors
| Konstantinos Kavallaris
Europe is taking strategic action to secure its digital future. With the launch of LLMs4Europe, a flagship initiative funded by the Digital Europe Programme and coordinated by ALT-EDIC, over 70 partners from across the continent are uniting to develop open, trustworthy, and multilingual Large Language Models (LLMs) tailored to Europe's specific re…

Exploring Open Science Impact: Highlights from the First PathOS Training Sessions
| Tereza Simova
The PathOS training programme is off to a great start, providing insights and guidance to a diverse range of Open Science stakeholders, including policy officers, funders, university executives, research infrastructure managers, librarians, Open Science experts, researchers and scientometricians. The primary goal of PathOS training is to equip the…

OSTrails General Assembly 2025: From Infrastructure to Implementation
| KONSTANTINOS KAVALLARIS
From March 13–14, 2025, the OSTrails consortium convened in Athens for its inaugural General Assembly, marking a pivotal transition from infrastructure development to widespread adoption. The event gathered over 65 in-person participants, complemented by numerous online attendees, including researchers, infrastructure managers, funders, developers…

OpenAIRE EXPLORE and ORCID Integration: Complete your Open Science ORCID profile
| Paolo Manghi
OpenAIRE EXPLORE now lets you auto-sync all your outputs, articles, data, software, straight to your ORCID record. Powered by the OpenAIRE Graph, it’s never been easier to build a full, open research profile. Read on to learn how.