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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
The eFIS project on Ethical Requirements for Research Information Systems is one of the six projects that have been awarded funding within the call issued by the German Ministry for Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) in 2025. Led from the Distance University in Hagen, the eFIS project seeks to investigate the ethical requirements of institutional CRIS. Particular attention will be devoted to issues such as transparency, fairness, data protection, and the responsible use of metrics. These aspects are crucial for the successful implementation, acceptance, and ethically sound operation of such systems.
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).
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.
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.
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.
