OpenAIRE welcomes Joeri Both as the new chair of the Executive Board & General Assembly
| Iro Bournazou
Following the Open Science Fair at CERN, OpenAIRE’s 16th General Assembly marked an important step in its governance. On 18–19 September 2025, members elected the new Chair of the Executive Board and the General Assembly, shaping the next phase of OpenAIRE’s strategic direction. Read the press release.
OpenAIRE MONITOR: Unlocking Research Impact with Clarity and Confidence
| Alane Brunschweiger
In today’s fast-changing research landscape, understanding the impact of your organisation’s research output is essential. Whether you're a research institution, funder, or part of a broader research initiative, you need clear, trustworthy insights to make informed decisions, demonstrate value, and drive meaningful progress. That’s where Open…
UDFBench is an innovative benchmark that uses real-world data from the OpenAIRE Graph to provide a systematic and reproducible way to study how modern data engines handle user-defined procedural code and helps identify which database systems perform best for specific research needs.
8th OpenAIRE Open Science Train-the-Trainer Bootcamp
| Jonathan England
OpenAIRE's train-the-trainer bootcamps aim at empowering trainers with the knowledge and the know-hows of Open Science so they can pass it onto the researchers and students themselves, and ultimately help create a more open, transparent and accessible research ecosystem.
Strengthening Research Integrity: TIER2 Reproducibility Training Now Available on OpenPlato
| Stefania Amodeo
TIER2 project has collaborated with OpenAIRE to launch the TIER2 Reproducibility Training modules on OpenPlato: free, accessible courses designed for researchers, publishers, and practitioners committed to enhancing research integrity.
OpenAIRE is pleased to introduce a refreshed user interface for the PROVIDE Dashboard, designed to make managing and maintaining your data sources easier than ever. See what's new.
Open Science Conference 2025: OpenAIRE Showcases AI-Driven Innovation for Transparent and Reproducible Research
| Stefania Amodeo, Maja Dolinar, Tereza Szybisty
At this year’s Open Science Conference 2025 in Hamburg, OpenAIRE played a key role in exploring how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming research practices and infrastructures. Read on about our contributions.
Working Together for Change: Highlights from the CoARA Working Group Co-Chairs Forum 2025 in Graz
| Angeliki Tzouganatou
The 2025 CoARA Working Group Co-Chairs Forum, held on 12–13 November in Graz, marked an important moment of transition for the Coalition. With most first-wave Working Groups approaching the end of their formal mandate, the meeting served as both a retrospective and a forward-looking exercise: assessing what has been achieved, where challenges rema…
OpenAIRE Supports the Crete Declaration: Uniting Science for One Health
| Iro Bournazou
A bold step toward a more resilient scientific future has just been taken with the publication of the Crete Declaration: Uniting Science for One Health in Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO). The declaration responds to a simple yet urgent reality: human, animal, plant, and ecosystem health are deeply interconnected, and today’s globa…
Beyond Simple Metrics: How AI and Open Data Reveal the True Complexity of Research Impact
| Ioanna Grypari
A new method for evaluating real-world impact of research where impact evolves over long, non-linear pathways has been developed and tested on EU-funded rare disease projects. Learn more about how this method addresses the limitations of traditional evaluation models.
