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.
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.
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.
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).
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.