The euroCRIS-led INST-DSpace project to add instruments and facilities to an expanded DSpace-CRIS data model has been awarded funding by the Vietsch Foundation. The project will involve a collaboration between euroCRIS and 4Science to model the equipment entity in CERIF so that instruments and facilities can be added to the snapshot for the institutional research activity.
The Autumn 2026 euroCRIS Strategic Membership Meeting (SMM2026) will be held Nov 24-26 at Tecnalia in San Sebastian, Spain. A call for proposals for the event will be released in the summer.
euroCRIS is pleased to welcome the German OSIRIS Solutions GmbH as a new general euroCRIS sponsor as of 1 January 2026. The OSIRIS open source CRIS solution is currently implemented at several research centres in Germany – such as the Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH.
The event website for the 17th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems (CRIS2026) to be held May 20-22 at the University of the Azores is already available online. The CRIS2026 CfP with a Feb 7th deadline for submissions is included in the website. Several other sections are still under construction and will remain so until a preliminary programme is available.
Following the celebration of three successful online CERIF surgeries on Sep 25th, Oct 30th and Dec 4th, the participants in these sessions and their hosts – Board members Jan Dvořák and Dragan Ivanović, who lead the development of the refactored CERIF – have scheduled a 4th CERIF surgery to be held online at 2pm on Thu January 15th, 2026. As in previous sessions, an informal registration procedure will be applied whereby any euroCRIS member may email their expression of interest to eurocris [at] eurocris.org to receive the access details a couple of days before the session takes place.
The presentations delivered at the Autumn 2025 Strategic Membership Meeting held Nov 25-27 at the Izmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH) have now been deposited in the euroCRIS repository and linked from the event programme.
A call for proposals has now been released for the CRIS2026 Conference to be held May 20-22, 2026 at the University of the Azores in Ponta Delgada, Azores Islands, Portugal. The CfP calls for submissions for the conference programme until 7 Feb 2026.
The SMM2025 programme has already been made available on the event website. This Autumn 2025 euroCRIS Strategic Membership Meeting will be held Nov 25-27 at the Izmir Institute of Technology in Urla/Izmir, Türkiye. The programme includes a comprehensive national session devoted to current developments in research information management and Open Science in Türkiye as well as a number of contributions from euroCRIS members and Strategic Partners like ORCID, OpenAIRE or COAR. Sessions devoted to the progress of the two working groups managed by euroCRIS, AI4RIS and CRISCROS, feature on the programme too.
The paper "Common Research Information Management from a European University Alliance Perspective" written by euroCRIS Board members Pablo de Castro, Jan Dvořák, Ognjen Orel and Joachim Schöpfel and presented at the EUNIS Congress 2025 held last June in Belfast has now been published. The EUNIS 2025 annual congress proceedings include other papers on CRIS systems and European University Alliances, in line with the event theme "Connecting communities and empowering creativity".
The article "Expanding the research graph underpinning the implementation of Open Science: research instruments and facilities" was published on Fri Nov 7th in the Scottish Journal of Open Research (SJOR). The paper, authored by the euroCRIS Technical Secretary, summarises the panel discussion held at the Autumn 2024 euroCRIS meeting at the INRAE in Paris on the inclusion of research equipment and facilities into the wider CERIF-based research graph. Some hints are provided on how the landscape may evolve to gradually capture this additional research entity and the side-benefits this could entail.