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Workshop

Making Research Information Open: Shared Challenges, Shared Solutions

From Commitment to Action: Making the Barcelona Declaration Work
The Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information has sparked global momentum, but how do we turn principles into practice? In this collaborative session, we will explore real-world challenges in implementing open research information and co-develop actionable strategies to address them. Whether your organization has signed the Declaration or is just exploring it, join fellow policy makers, open science officers, and infrastructure providers to help shape a shared roadmap for openness, equity, and responsible research assessment.

The Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information, published in April 2024, promotes the openness of publication and research output metadata, as well as the openness of information about research funding. Openness of research information supports responsible research assessment, enables equitable and inclusive policy making, and helps advance more open approaches to monitoring and incentivizing open science practices.

With over 100 signatories globally, including universities and research organizations, funders, governments, and networks such as CERN, OpenAire, Coimbra Group, UKRN, EOSC-A, Liber and YERUN, the Barcelona Declaration reflects growing momentum. The Declaration has also been endorsed by organizations like CoARA, Coalition S, EUA, Science Europe, and HELIOS Open. Yet challenges remain in operationalizing its vision: from aligning infrastructures to addressing institutional readiness, research assessment and policy implications.

In this 90 minute collaborative session, participants will first identify and discuss implementation challenges using live polling tools. Then, through moderated group exchanges, attendees will co-develop actionable strategies for each challenge and explore how these connect to the international roadmap for open research information currently implemented by Barcelona Declaration working groups.

This session is designed for open science officers, policy makers, research managers, librarians, and infrastructure providers, whether their organizations have signed the Declaration or are considering it. Participants will leave with concrete ideas for local and collaborative action, and a clearer understanding of the opportunities and complexities of opening up research information. Outcomes will be captured in a report to share insights with both the Barcelona Declaration working groups and the broader community.

Details

  • DATE:
    16 September 2025
  • ROOM:
    82/1-001 Science Gateway Lab A

Organisers

Speakers

Joeri Both

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Ana Ranitovic

University of Groningen

Short Bios

Joeri Both

Joeri Both is the Vice Director at the University Library of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He heads up the Research Support department including the topics of Open Science, RDM and Research Intelligence. He is a member of the Dutch national Research Support working group of the Royal and University Libraries in the Netherlands. He was involved in the drafting of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information and building up the Dutch national research portal in OpenAIRE.

Ana Ranitovic

Ana Ranitovic is the Chief of Open Science at the University of Groningen (UG), where she leads the university-wide Open Science Programme encompassing key areas such as Diamond Open Access, FAIR data and software, Open Education, Public Engagement and Digital Sovereignty. She co-chairs the Dutch national working group of Barcelona Declaration signatories, which she helped establish. In addition, Ana is an active member of the Universities of the Netherlands (UNL) working group on Publication Culture, and serves on the Open Science Steering Committee within the Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities.

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