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NORA & Research Portal Denmark: an update

Marija Rakas (NORA, Research Portal Denmark)

As we approach mid-2026, Research Portal Denmark and the National Open Research Analytics (NORA) initiative—funded by the Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science (UFS) and, since January 2026, hosted at Statistics Denmark (DST)—are in a new phase organizationally. Research Portal Denmark continues its core mission of making Danish research information open and transparent. Now embedded within DST, the platform can benefit from synergies connected to shared infrastructure, expertise, and data capabilities.

At the same time, NORA is moving forward with the next stage of technical development, including preparation for the first version of a consolidated national research database. By integrating OpenAlex, institutional data sources, and Scopus/SciVal data enriched with CWTS indicators, the initiative is taking an important step towards a more coherent, transparent, and robust national research information infrastructure.

Best paper and best poster at CRIS2026 Conference Ponta Delgada

The 17th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems (CRIS2026) was successfully held last week (May 20-22) at the University of the Azores in Ponta Delgada. With 120 registered attendees, the event provided another great opportunity to capture the state of the art in CRIS operation across Europe and to hold fruitful discussions with attendees of the most diverse provenance.

Annual euroCRIS accounts 2025

As it is customary, the annual euroCRIS accounts for 2025 will be presented to euroCRIS members at the May 20-22 CRIS2026 Conference in Ponta Delgada. For this purpose, they have now been made openly available on the website together with the auditor's report. Same as last year, an appendix to the annual accounts lists the official euroCRIS members as of 31 Dec 2025.

"Are CRIS Systems and Repositories Becoming One and the Same Thing?"

This is the title of the guest presentation that the euroCRIS Technical Secretary delivered at the May 12-13 "Big Migration Conference: On the road to the next generation of scientific repositories" in Warsaw. Jointly organised by PCG Academia and the University of Warsaw, the conference programme focused on the major transformations shaping today’s repository landscape.

euroCRIS DSpace-CRIS upgrade

As part of the ongoing process to upgrade the euroCRIS DSpace-CRIS repository to v9, the system was set to read-only on Apr 10th. This upgrade is aimed at adding the new Equipment research entity into the euroCRIS DSpace-CRIS data model, which is one of the objectives of the INST-DSpace project. While the system is undergoing this upgrade, no new items can be deposited in the repository or new entries added to the DRIS (both of which remain accessible nonetheless).

iMarina User Group meeting keynote

On May 6th the euroCRIS Technical Secretary will deliver a guest keynote at the 2-day iMarina User Group meeting in Granada (Spain). The topic for the presentation will be "The evolution of CRIS systems". Additional presentations will be delivered by the euroCRIS member Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) and the National Agency for Research Assessment (ANECA).

An update on the CRIS2026 conference proceedings

The CRIS2026 conference proceedings will be published in the EPiC Series next Autumn. The Word and LaTeX templates for the full papers have already been made available on the event website under "Publication of the Accepted Papers" in the Call for Proposals section. Authors for accepted CRIS2026 contributions have already been contacted and requested to confirm if they wish to publish a full conference paper in the proceedings. If so, the deadline for sending in the full text versions is May 31st.

CRIS2026 keynotes announced

We are pleased to announce the three keynotes that will open the daily sessions at the forthcoming CRIS2026 Conference (May 19-22) at the University of the Azores in Ponta Delgada. Day II (Thu May 21st) will see a keynote on research infrastructures by Ricardo Miguéis, Head of the INESC HUB in Brussels, while Day III will have ISCTE-IUL (and euroCRIS Board Member) António Luís Lopes on Artificial Intelligence.

Presentation on CRIS interoperability for IBICT

A guest presentation on "System interoperability: an overview from a Research Information Management perspective" was delivered on Apr 27th by the euroCRIS Technical Secretary within the postgraduate programme in information sciences (PPCGI) held by the Brazilian Institute for Science Information and Technology (IBICT). The presentation explored the usual bottom-up information exchange workflows between institutional and national/regional CRIS and the different approach taken by the BrCris national CRIS in Brazil.

CRIS2026 preliminary programme available

The preliminary programme for the May 19-22 CRIS2026 conference in Ponta Delgada (Azores, Portugal) is already available on the event website. This early version of the programme may still experience changes as the final confirmations are received for the titles and speaker for specific talks, but the structure should remain as it stands.

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