October 2025

euroCRIS presentation at IV Ukrainian Open Science Conference 2025

The #OSICU2025 presentation "Prospects for the Development of Research Infrastructure in Ukraine" is already available in the euroCRIS repository. The presentation was delivered by euroCRIS Technical Secretary Pablo de Castro at the ІV International Conference "Open Science and Innovation in Ukraine 2025" on Oct 22nd, and addressed the value of CRIS systems like the Ukrainian National CRIS URIS to provide research information to European University Alliances which Ukrainian universities are members of.

KFiD presentation at 7th German VIVO WS

The presentation "New developments and offerings around the KDSF standard" delivered by euroCRIS Board member Sophie Biesenbender at the Sep 24-25 7th VIVO Workshop in Hannover is already available in the euroCRIS repository. The (German-language) presentation provides an update on recent developments at the German Commission for Research Information (KFiD). These include version 2 of the German KDSF standard (Research Core Data Set) for research information management and the FIS Landkarte project to produce an up-to-date snapshot of the institutional CRIS infrastructure at German universities and research centres.

Article on CRIS systems in Ar(abes)ques

The article "Outils et circulation des données en Europe: état des lieux par le consortium euroCRIS" has been published in issue 118 of the Arabesques journal (Oct-Dec 2025). This issue brings together the full-text papers arising from the event 'Journées d’étude de l’Abes 2025' held in Montpellier in May this year. The article on CRIS, which examines the features of these systems and explores a number of case studies for national CRIS in Europe, was written by euroCRIS Board member Joachim Schöpfel in collaboration with the euroCRIS Technical Secretary Pablo de Castro.

Registration for SMM2025 İzmir opens

The registration for the forthcoming Autumn 2025 euroCRIS strategic membership meeting (SMM2025) to be held Nov 25-27 at the İzmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH) in Urla/İzmir opened at the beginning of October. The registration page is linked from the SMM2025 event website. Registration for this meeting is free for local attendees coming from Turkish institutions as well as – as usual – for euroCRIS members, sponsors and strategic partrners. We are currently working on the event programme, for which there is already a draft on the SMM2025 website. The plan is to finalise the programme once the currently open call for proposals from euroCRIS members closes as of Oct 15th.

Dates for further online CERIF surgeries

Following a successful 90-min first online CERIF surgery held on Wed Sep 25th, the session hosts (CERIF leads at euroCRIS Jan Dvořák and Dragan Ivanović) and attendees (representatives from the PRC regional CRIS in Catalonia, the CRISalid project in France and the Universities of Bielefeld and Vienna) agreed it made sense to schedule further sessions to offer the euroCRIS membership an opportunity to discuss the way the CERIF standard is evolving. The next CERIF surgeries will be held at 2pm CET on Thu Oct 30th and Thu Dec 4th. The informal procedure for registration for anyone not having attended the fist session is the same one that was applied for the Sep 25th surgery, i.e. dropping a line to eurocris [at] eurocris.org expressing an interest to attend.

Norwegian National Research Information Repository (NVA) launched

Jan Erik Garshol (Sikt)

On Wed Oct 1st the Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research (Sikt) launched the Nasjonalt vitenarkiv (NVA), the Norwegian Research Information Repository, after approximately seven years of planning, design, testing, and collaboration across Norwegian research institutions. There are approximately 170 institutions in production.

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