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We are pleased to welcome The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities as a signatory of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information. The signature highlights the growing role of international university networks in advancing open research information and community-governed research infrastructures. [Read More]

The Working Group on Funding Metadata of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information is pleased to share ‘Improving the Quality of Open Funding Metadata: A Call to Action’. The Call to Action outlines the importance of funding metadata, the key barriers affecting its quality and coverage, and a set of recommendations for stakeholders across the scholarly communication ecosystem: publishers, funders, institutions / libraries and infrastructure providers. [Read More]

We are pleased to announce an expansion of the Steering Group of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information. [Read More]

We are pleased to announce an expansion of the Steering Group of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information. [Read More]

A new publication from the Barcelona Declaration Working Group ‘Sustaining Infrastructures’ brings together insights from two stakeholder sessions focused on the sustainability of open research information infrastructures. [Read More]

We are pleased to welcome Couperin as a new signatory of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information [Read More]

How do shared principles actually reshape governance, funding models, and everyday decisions inside open scholarly infrastructures? This question framed our recent webinar, organized in light of the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) 2.0. [Read More]

In late 2025, the Netherlands Barcelona Declaration Network met in Leiden to reflect and set priorities for 2026. This blog outlines those priorities and highlights how the growing network of universities, funders, and research infrastructures advances open, community-governed research information. [Read More]

Adopting organisations share how POSI v2 is guiding the sustainability of open scholarly infrastructure in practice. Organized in the context of the Barcelona Declaration, this conversation explores governance, funding, and long-term resilience through real-world experience. [Read More]

On 4 December 2025, the Barcelona Declaration, through its Working Group 4 (Replacing Closed Systems), co-organised the webinar “Open Research Information in Action: Institutional Journeys Towards Open Systems” together with the Helmholtz Open Science Office. [Read More]