CRIS2026

The CRIS2026 Conference is organised by euroCRIS in cooperation with PTCRIS, the Portuguese Current Research Information System, a programme initiated by FCCN, the digital services unit of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), and friendly support of the University of the Azores (UAc).

CRIS2026 is the seventeenth edition in a biennial series of conferences devoted to improving the availability of and access to research information systems across Europe and beyond. The target audience includes managers of research-performing and/or funding institutions, evaluators, librarians, ICT experts, as well as policy makers.

euroCRIS is a non-profit professional association of CRIS experts and custodian of the Common European Research Information Format (CERIF).

The general theme of the conference is Reshaping the CRIS role in the context of new trends like AI, Open Source and research evaluation. Other topics of the conference include the following:

• The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in research information management
• Semantic approaches, data mining, and profiling in the interpretation of research information
• The use and implementation of standards in CRIS: identifiers, formats, semantics, vocabularies
• CRIS in the ecosystem of open infrastructures
• The development of open-source solutions for research information management
• The impact and the application of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information
• Sustainability and governance of CRIS
• The significance of CRIS for the promotion and realisation of FAIR and Open Science
• Use cases in the application of CERIF
• Output and performance: trends in research assessment, rankings, and benchmarking
• The role of CRIS in support of the responsible use of research metrics: analytics and quantitative measurement in research information systems
• The (worldwide) uptake of CRIS Systems by various stakeholders

OpenAIRE Presence:

• Friday 22 May 2026 | Parallel Session 6.2: 12:30 – 14:30 CEST (10:30-12:30 local time)
  Pedro Principe, Head of Division at University of Minho Documentation Services and OpenAIRE National Open Access Desk (NOAD) for Portugal, will present "OpenAIRE Graph as an Open Research Information Backbone for CRIS Interoperability and Responsible Evaluation"