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The Projects Task Group (leader Nikos Houssos) coordinated the submission of several proposals for EC funding. euroCRIS participates in the project ENGAGE http://www.engage-project.eu/engage/wp/

(An Infrastructure for Open, Linked Governmental Data Provision towards Research Communities and Citizens)co-ordinated by the National Technical University of Athens. In the EuroRIs-Net+ http://www.euroris-net.eu/ project, co-ordinated by EKT/NHRF, euroCRIS assists with the development of the Research Infrastructure Knowledge Repository. euroCRIS’ task in the OpenAIREplus http://www.openaire.eu/ project is to streamline the data model with CERIF in areas of conceptual overlap. Moreover, euroCRIS participates in a series of UK projects funded under the JISC Research Information Management Programme. euroCRIS members request to be involved in projects and participation is managed by the Projects Task Group. The CRIS-IR Task Group (leader Danica Zendulková, deputy Ed Simons) has been working on a formats comparison and a questionnaire for Scientific Institutional Repositories.

The CRIS Architecture and Development Task Group (leader David Baker) made a restart and has been working on a Specification for a Service-Oriented CERIF Implementation.

The newly established Linked Open Data Task Group (leader Miguel-Angel Sicilia) has formulated aims and objectives related to leveraging CRIS data by exposing it to Web technology so that it can be interlinked to other datasets and become more useful. Like the Architecture TG, the Linked Open Data TG will closely cooperate with the CERIF TG.

Executives The part-time euroCRIS-funded Secretary (Harrie Lalieu) has continued the great work in keeping euroCRIS running in the sense of governance. Communication with the members and the outside world is increasing, as is his work on the website and in projects.

The Treasurer (Geert van Grootel) reports a healthy (if not wealthy) state of the accounts. Following the once-only investment for the implementation of the new website in 2010, the accumulated balance is increasing again.

The Executive for Conferences (Barbara Ebert) prepared the euroCRIS biennial conference, which will be held from 6-9 June 2012 in Prague. She co-operated intensively with the local organizing committee, the programme committee and the euroCRIS Board.

The Executive responsible for Strategy (Anne Asserson) has continued to drive euroCRIS forward creating a wide pathway of opportunities, as well as organising the strategic seminar and liaising with our strategic partners. Ambitions are to obtain more financial support for euroCRIS beyond money for projects and to widen strategic links beyond Europe.

The Executive for the Website (Ed Simons) upgraded the website in many aspects – both as regards structure and lay-out – implemented the discussion forums and strengthened the security layers.

In his role as President Keith Jeffery has initiated strategic discussions with partners as well as EC project proposals with strategic goals. He has also been involved heavily in the UK CRIS projects.

Plans for 2012 With participation in EC funded projects and UK projects, and with two major EC proposals in the pipeline related to research information coordination, linking and evaluation & a strengthened European Research Area through open metadata access – along with a wide adoption of CERIF – we are in position to influence more strongly policy in Europe and wider on research information – including digital libraries, research datasets and software and the supporting e-infrastructure for research. The 10 th euroCRIS Strategic Seminar (10-11 September 2012, Brussels) will look forward with Horizon 2020 on the background.

With a high-quality conference CRIS 2012 “e-

Infrastructures for Research and Innovation” (6-9 June 2012, Prague) euroCRIS aims at setting the scene for further research in research information management and technology. The Task Groups are currently in a co-ordination process and will have joint meetings. Member meetings are already in the planning: 6 th of June 2012 (pre-conference business meeting, Prague) and 5-6 November 2012 (Madrid). In the autumn of 2012 Board elections will be held for the term 2013-2014. The Board will take care for continuity of work of TG leaders and Executives and for a proper transfer of duties where applicable.