SPARC Europe has announced the publication of the 2024 Annual Report, marking the completion of the strategic plan before embarking on a new one for 2025-2028.
Through the facilitation, SPARC Europe engaged over 2,500 individuals through multiple programmes and initiatives and convened scores of organisations in collaborative initiatives co-creating a more open and equitable open future for the public good.
Highlights from the year include:
• Continuing to facilitate CoNOSC, the Council for National Open Science Coordination, growing it to 25 national Open Science policymakers, honing in on themes from sustaining research data management infrastructure to knowledge security to the costs of OA publishing.
• Researching OA book policy-making across the ERA, contributing to a unique knowledge base for Europe’s policymakers and crafting policy recommendations for a range of policymakers as part of the ground-breaking EC project PALOMERA, which concluded in 2024.
• 2024 saw us join the leadership of a new global framework to monitor Open Science, including setting the goals, laying the structure and building a network that will make it possible to implement strong principles in the Open Science Monitoring Initiative (OSMI).
• Led extensive work to understand and guide action on how to sustain Diamond OA through the DIAMAS project.
• Copyright reform continued to stay a priority for us as we helped build and support a large network of national copyright experts in their efforts to reform copyright for the Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21) programme. We also led work on rights retention through Project Retain.
• Spearheaded a new project: Connecting the worlds of Open Science and Open Education to increase capacity for an Open Europe to make the case for a stronger, more integrated open agenda.
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