OpenAIRE and OPERAS have officially joined the second wave of the EOSC Federation as the EOSC Scholarly Commons Node. This partnership represents a strategic alignment to ensure that scholarly communication  is natively integrated into the European Open Science Cloud. Learn more.

What happens when an Open Science infrastructure and a research infrastructure build a monitoring system to understand how outputs connect across publications, data, and software? The collaboration between SciLifeLab and OpenAIRE shows how co-creation can turn fragmented information into a more connected, usable view of research.

Amnesia 1.4.0 is live, introducing new capabilities for anonymising medical imaging data, expanding support for secure and privacy-preserving data sharing in health research. 

SciLake presented its results at the final event in March, demonstrating how the project's tools and methods can improve discovery and reuse for researchers, strengthen interoperability and service delivery for research infrastructures, and support evidence‑based analysis for science policy.

The OpenAIRE Graph has recently integrated mEDRA’s DOI metadata, adding 1.5M+ DOI-identified records and strengthening persistent identifier coverage across Europe, with a major increase in Italian scholarly content.

 Applications are now open for the Open Science Policy Training Programme. Learn all about what this programme entails and apply now. 

 FIZ Karlsruhe and OpenAIRE have formalised a partnership to strengthen the integration, quality, and interoperability of research information across Europe.

 As research assessment evolves beyond traditional metrics, new approaches are emerging. Insights from a large-scale survey, shared by Dr. Mathijs Vleugel, highlight a shift towards more qualitative, inclusive evaluation practices and what this means for institutions and researchers.

OpenAIRE and Institut Pasteur have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on Open Science training and capacity building. Learn more about the partnership.

The AI in Science Working Groups, organised by the SCIANCE project, are now open for participation. Open to researchers, technologists, policymakers and industry practitioners, these ten thematic groups will collectively design the European Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda for AI in Science. The call closes on 10 April 2026.

In a significant move to bolster Netherlands' (NL) research infrastructure, Open Science NL has recently awarded €35 million to 45 projects dedicated to making scholarly data, software, and publications more accessible and transparent. OpenAIRE is pleased to be working alongside SURF in two of these strategic four-year initiatives: DURF and BROCCOLI.

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.