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Discover where, how and by whom AI is being used across European Science.

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.

Free Knowledge Africa and OpenAIRE have signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen the visibility of African research. 

Gina Pavone and Irina Cojocaru have taken on the roles of Chair and Co-Chair in OpenAIRE's Outreach, Communication and Engagement Standing Committee. We sat down with them to discuss what what meaningful engagement should look like across OpenAIRE. 

OpenAIRE is scaling the way it identifies funders, grants and the research they support by combining trusted external infrastructures, persistent identifiers and our own enrichment and validation workflows to make those connections both broader and more reliable. 

After 42 months of collaboration, PATTERN – Empowering Open and Responsible Research and Innovation has reached completion, leaving behind a substantial and reusable training ecosystem for researchers, research support professionals and institutions across Europe.

In the Netherlands, a new wave of initiatives is turning long-standing ambitions around openness, interoperability, and digital sovereignty into concrete implementation.

The OpenAIRE Graph has expanded its global coverage with the integration of more than 1 million records from PubScholar, the public academic resource platform developed by the National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NSLC) and its partners. 

OpenAIRE has launched OpenAIRE Innovation, a new initiative bringing together its open research infrastructure, expertise and community to strengthen connections between research and innovation.

ARION kicks off! This September, ARION, a new Horizon Europe project coordinated by OpenAIRE, officially begins. The project will help institutions move from commitments on research assessment reform to practical, sustainable change. 

REWIRE kicks off this September! This new project will support the wider adoption of reproducible research practices and strengthening trust in research outcomes.

Our Annual Report for 2025 is out! Capturing a year of growth, collaboration and change as Open Science becomes increasingly embedded in the way research is conducted, shared, assessed and monitored across Europe.

OpenAIRE is pleased to announce the upcoming FAIR Research Data Management (RDM) Train-the-Trainers Bootcamp for Data Stewards, an intensive four-day online programme.

As a new member of OpenAIRE, Eindhoven University of Technology brings extensive experience in research information management, Open Access, and the infrastructures that help make research more visible and reusable. To get to know the people behind our newest members, we spoke with Petra Dickhaut, Information Specialist at Eindhoven University of Technology.

At the latest CoARA Spotlight, the OI4RRA Working Group presented the three outputs the group has produced over its 24-month mandate, now endorsed and available in the CoARA Collection. The session set out why it matters for the research community trying to put responsible research assessment into practice through an infrastructural lens.

A new European Commission study examines how Secondary Publication Rights and copyright exceptions could support a more open, reusable, and competitive European research system.

With the v11 release, the OpenAIRE Graph has added Persons as dedicated nodes. Where authors once appeared only as identifiers within research results, they can now be explored directly, along with their work, collaborations, affiliations, and links to funded projects.

The Italian Research Monitor pilot brings together nine Italian universities and OpenAIRE to build the foundations for open, trusted and evidence-based research monitoring in Italy, starting from better data, stronger interoperability and shared responsibility for research information.

OpenAIRE has launched a new Working Group on AI Bots and Repositories that brings together technical experts, repository managers, infrastructure providers, and policy specialists to explore practical and sustainable approaches to managing AI-driven traffic.

As Leiden University joins the OpenAIRE network, Rutger de Jong reflects on his experience with national initiatives such as the Dutch Repository Federation, the importance of digital sovereignty, and the need to strengthen open infrastructure.