The ENDORSE conference ("EuropeaN Data conference On Reference data and SEmantics") will be held online in the week from the 16 to the 19 of March. The programme for each day will be driven by a specific topic: Reference data governance in cross-organisational environments (Day 1), ‘Law as code’ and interoperability (Day 2), Procurement and interoperability (Day 3) and Linking data spaces (Day 4).
The in-person Spring membership meeting that was planned to be held Apr 26-28, 2021 at the Cyprus University of Technology in Limassol (Cyprus) has unfortunately been cancelled. Same as for the previous Autumn 2020 membership meeting last Nov, the on-site event will be replaced by a new series of euroCRIS webinars whose programme and dates will soon be announced.
A 3-day training course on research information management and CRIS systems was held on Feb 24-26 for the Consortium of Galician Universities (CISUG, formerly BUGalicia). The consortium brings together the three Universities – A Coruña, Santiago de Compostela and Vigo – in Galicia, North West Spain.
The presentations and session recording for the Feb 11th joint euroCRIS/EARMA webinar "RIM v RMA: Mutual areas of interest between Research Information Management (RIM) and Research Management and Administration (RMA) professionals" are already available in the euroCRIS repository and on the euroCRIS YouTube channel respectively.
Friday Feb 5th marked the end-date for the DRIS+ project funded under the OpenAIRE-Advance Open Innovation Call to enhance the euroCRIS Directory of Research Information Systems (DRIS).
Following the recently announced MoU between euroCRIS and EARMA, a first collaborative activity has been scheduled for Thu Feb 11th, 15 to 17 hrs CET. This will be a free webinar hosted by euroCRIS on the topic of research information management (RIM) vs research management and administration (RMA).
Once the contract has been signed between euroCRIS and the team of consultants that will develop the CERIF refactoring pilot project, a date has already been agreed for the project kick-off call.
An MoU has been signed between euroCRIS and EARMA to establish and promote a strategic and cooperative partnership between both organisations.
Following the stepping down of Ed Simons (Radboud University Nijmegen), euroCRIS President from 2013 to 2020, Sadia Vancauwenbergh at U Hasselt in Flanders, Belgium, has been elected new euroCRIS President for the term 2021-2022.
The most recent additions to the euroCRIS Directory of Research Information Systems (DRIS), such as this new 'GEPRIS Historisch' portal of the German Research Foundation (DFG), have driven up the number of records for CRIS systems worldwide over the 800 threshold.