The final programme for the Nov 26-28 euroCRIS Strategic Membership Meeting in Paris is already available on the event website. As usual in these Autumn SMMs, the programme includes a national session, a strategic parner session and numerous contributions from euroCRIS members. This year's Autumn meeting programme will also see the launch of the AI4CRIS WG.
The camera-ready papers for the CRIS2024 conference proceedings have now entered the production stage. The first notifications for authors to complete the Rights & Access form that will allow them to select the licence for their published CRIS2024 conference papers were sent out to authors as of Nov 9th, 2024. The advice from euroCRIS is for all authors to select a CC BY 4.0 licence for their papers on that Rights & Access form.
The 20th International Open Repositories Conference (OR2025) will be held June 15-18, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The theme for the conference is "Twenty Years of Progress, a Future of Possibilities". An OR2025 CfP is already available online, please check the link for the themes and submission categories for this conference. The deadline for submissions is December 18, 2024.
The following call for tenders for the "Implementation of a Research Information Management System (CRIS) to Reinforce the Administrative Management Workflows at Public Universities [in Peru]" was published (in Spanish language) on Sep 20th by the Unit 118 of the Peruvian Ministry of Education. The call for tenders is open until 31 Oct 2024.
The preliminary programme for the Nov 26-28 Strategic Membership Meeting at INRAE in Paris is already available. The event registration page is also already open and may be reached from the 'Register' button on the top, right-hand-side corner of the event website. Registration for the event is free for paying euroCRIS members (as of the 2024 membership), euroCRIS Strategic Partners and sponsors and event speakers, but there is a mandatory fee for the official dinner. Please note that this meeting will have a maximum capacity of 80 attendees due to venue constraints.
The first conference on the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information took place in Paris on Sep 23–24. The euroCRIS President Jan Dvořák was among the approx 80 on-site participants. Representatives of institutions, funders, national bodies, and research information e-infrastructures were all present and shared their views on the DORI initiative.
Following the fruitful discussions held at the CRIS2024 conference session devoted to Artificial Intelligence and CRIS systems last May, a group of participants in that session have launched the AI4CRIS working group. AI4CRIS is to focus on focused on leveraging Artificial Intelligence to enhance Current Research Information Systems (CRIS).
The slides for the presentation "Research Information Management Systems in Support of Open Science and Open Access" delivered by the euroCRIS Technical Secretary on Tue Oct 1st at the Open Libraries conference in Madrid are already available in the euroCRIS repository.
The international conference "Open Libraries: Open Science, Open Learning" will be held Sep 30-Oct 3, 2024 by the Spanish National University of Distance Education (UNED) Library in Madrid. The event programme includes the talk "Research Information Management Systems in Support of Open Science and Open Access" to be delivered by the euroCRIS Technical Secretary to open the first session on Tue Oct 1st.
A preliminary event website is already available for the Autumn 2024 Strategic Membership Meeting (SMM2024) to be held Nov 26-28, 2024 at INRAE in Paris. A call for proposals from euroCRIS members is already open. Please feel free to submit your proposals for contributions to eurocris [at] eurocris.org until Oct 13th, 2024.