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CRIS2026 registration open

As of 10 Mar 2026 the registration for individual attendees to the CRIS2026 Conference Ponta Delgada is already open. The registration form made available on the euroCRIS website allows up to two individual attendees to register for the conference, its official dinner and welcome reception, the CERIF Tutorial and the guided tour through Ponta Delgada that is part of the social programme. The group registration at a discounted rate for three or more attendees from the same organisation has been open since mid-January and does not require the use of this registration form (see more info on the event website).

New member management and invoicing system at euroCRIS

At the start of the new year euroCRIS has switched to a new system to manage its member information and the associated invoicing workflow for the annual membership fees. ClubCollect will also be used for the individual registration workflow for the CRIS2026 conference that will open imminently.

6th CERIF surgery on Thu Mar 12th 2026

Following the most recent CERIF surgery held on Jan 29th, the leads for the refactored CERIF Jan Dvořák and Dragan Ivanović have scheduled a new one at 2pm CET on Thu Mar 12th. As usual, any new expression of interest to attend this online meeting to discuss the evolution of the CERIF standard should be emailed to eurocris [at] eurocris.org.

CRIS2026 conference submissions – some stats

A total of 53 submissions for the CRIS2026 conference has been received upon reaching the Feb 15th, 2026 deadline. A first analysis of submissions by country (based on corresponding author's affiliation) shows submissions from 25 different countries. The distribution for number of submissions by country is shown in the table below.

INST-DSpace project kick-off meeting and webpage

The INST-DSpace project was officially kicked-off on Mon Feb 9th with an online meeting of the project team partners (euroCRIS,4Science and the Technical University of Hamburg). An INST-DSpace project page has now been made available on the euroCRIS website to keep the research information management community up to date on the project progress.

Deadline extended for CRIS2026 submissions

The Programme Committee for the CRIS2026 Conference Azores has decided to extend the original Feb 7th deadline for CRIS2026 submissions to Feb 15th. This is a response to the messages received from several members of the euroCRIS community asking for a few more days to prepare their CRIS2026 submissions. The call for proposals has subsequently been updated on both the euroCRIS and the CRIS2026 conference websites.

Group registration for the CRIS2026 Conference opens

As of early Feb 2026 it is now possible for group registrations for the CRIS2026 Conference Azores to be processed. The information on the rates, discounts and early bird period is already available on the event website. Please email your expressions of interest for registering three or more representatives from the same institution to eurocris [at] eurocris.org and our Treasurer will issue an invoice.

euroCRIS Honorary President Keith Jeffery passes away

The euroCRIS Board is sad to report that euroCRIS funder and Honorary President Keith Jeffery passed away on Jan 15th, 2026. Not only did he conjure the whole new discipline of research information management decades before anyone dreamed of using a term like "research graph", he also kept supporting the evolution of the organisation he had helped create way beyond his stepping down as its founding President in 2012.

Book on CRIS systems published

The French-language book "Research Information Systems: Evaluation, Performance and Responsibility" ("Les systèmes d’information sur la recherche: Évaluation, performance et responsabilité") was published in January by the London-based ISTE Group. The short book is coauthored by euroCRIS Board member Joachim Schöpfel and prolific contributor to euroCRIS events Otmane Azeroual at the Uiversity of Hagen in Germany.

5th CERIF Surgery to be held 29 Jan

Following the successful 4th CERIF surgery held on Thu Jan 15th, the leads for the refactored CERIF Jan Dvořák and Dragan Ivanović have scheduled a new one at 2pm CET on Thu Jan 29th. This 5th online discussion will focus on the modelling of instruments and facilities in the refactored CERIF.

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