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As part of its efforts to support the Ukrainian research ecosystem during the ongoing war, Science Europe and NRFU are jointly organising three online workshops between September 2025 and February 2026 to address the current priority areas for Ukrainian research.
Diamond Open Access is a community-led scholarly publishing model without financial barriers for authors or readers, making knowledge available as a global public good. It promotes equity, sustainability, multilingualism, and bibliodiversity, aligning with the Budapest Open Access Initiative, the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access, and the Global Digital Compact.
The Global Summits on Diamond Open Access are pivotal gatherings that unite stakeholders from across the globe to advance a scholarly communication system that is equitable, sustainable, and community-driven.
The 3rd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access, building on successful events in Toluca, Mexico (2023) and Cape Town, South Africa (2024) will take place in Bengaluru, India between 2-6 February 2026.
The European Regional Meeting of the Global Research Council served to collect European input to the discussion topics for the 2026 GRC Annual Meeting: Open Science and Sustainable Research. The 2025 European Regional Meeting was co-hosted with HUN-REN and SFRS.
This webinar explored the latest initiatives in monitoring and evidence gathering for open science and research assessment reform, and marked the launch of our new scoping review.
This scoping review examines the contributions and unintended consequences of open science in realising results that align with key research culture values such as equity, openness, integrity, care, collaboration, and autonomy.
Commissioned by Science Europe, this review is the result of a collaboration between CWTS and the Know Center.
Science Europe made excellent progress on its research policy priorities in 2024, delivering key outputs in various areas, including science communication, research assessment, open science, the sustainability of research, international collaboration, and equality, diversity, and inclusion.
Science Europe is working together with CWTS and the Know Center to investigate the links between open science and research cultures.
Science Europe responds to the global consultation on the UNESCO Draft Principles on Open Science Monitoring. The principles are a step in the right direction, aligning with the priorities and practices of Science Europe's Member Organisations.
Science Europe launches an invitation to tender for comprehensive desk research into strategic approaches to, and research assessment of, open science. The tender is open until 6 February 2025.
Science Europe launched the report of its membership survey on the role of research funding and performing organisations in advancing open science and its links to research assessment. It reveals their strategic approaches and activities to evaluate, monitor, and collect evidence on research.
This report analyses the role of public research funding and performing organisations in Europe in the shifting landscape of open science and research assessment reform. The findings demonstrate how Science Europe's Member Organisations actively shape and contribute to these developments.
This document highlights research software as an emerging element of open science policies and practices and provides recommendations for research funding and research performing organisations on developing and aligning related policies.
2023 proved to be another landmark year for Science Europe: building on the achievements of the previous year and setting the direction for new approaches in vital areas of research policy.
This Multi-annual Action Plan proposes a series of framework actions to guide the implementation of the Science Europe Strategy Plan 2021–2026 in line with the association's updated vision, mission, values, and strategic priorities. The Action Plan was updated in June 2024.
This initial position by Science Europe on ‘Dual-Use’ Research, was submitted on 30 April as a response to the European Commission Consultation on the White Paper on ‘Options for enhancing support for research and development involving technologies with dual-use potential’, following a preliminary discussion with our Governing Board and prior to a broader discussion with our Member Organisations in the context of our upcoming General Assembly Meeting.
This briefing on the ERA Policy Agenda presents actions and advocacy points from Science Europe on the ERA Actions that it contributes to.
Series of events related to the co-design of Diamond Open Access Recommendations and Guidelines for Research Funders, Sponsors, and Donors
Following the success of the ‘Global Summit on Diamond Open Access’, that took place on 23-27 October in Toluca, Mexico, a concluding statement has now been ratified and released outlining the collective way forward for Diamond Open Access.
The Global Summit on Diamond Open Access in Toluca, México brought together the community for Diamond Open Access to discuss the equity, quality, usability, and sustainability of this scholarly publishing model.
Science Europe welcomes the launch or renewal of national open science strategies in several European countries.
In 2022, Science Europe made significant contributions in various areas, including research culture, research assessment, open science, EU framework programmes, the green and digital transition, and science communication.
Science Europe's 2022 Annual Report highlights the most important achievements of 2022 on Science Europe’s priority topics, including research culture, research assessment, open science, EU framework programmes, the green and digital transition, and science communication.
Science Europe is pleased to invite you to register for the ‘Global Summit on Diamond Open Access / Cumbre Global sobre Acceso Abierto Diamante’. This hybrid and multilingual series of events will take place from 23 to 27 October 2023 in Toluca, Mexico.
Science Europe is pleased to present the report of its Conference on Open Science. The conference, which took place on 18 and 19 October 2022 in Brussels, Belgium, and online, brought together close to 600 participants, including 36 expert speakers, for a discussion on open science and its role in the European and global research landscape.
We welcome the adoption by the Council of the European Union (EU) of the conclusions on high-quality, transparent, open, trustworthy, and equitable scholarly publishing. As key public research and innovation actors in Europe, we are committed to supporting the development of a publicly owned, not-for-profit scholarly communication ecosystem in collaboration with policymakers in Europe and beyond.