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Retrospective of the Webinar: The Barcelona Declaration - Why Open Research Information Matters
Benefits, Commitments, and Practical Implementation for Research Organisations
On March 3, the webinar “The Barcelona Declaration: Why Open Research Information Matters,” coordinated by the Cluster Research+Data, took place.
With around 100 participants, the event was of interest to a considerable number of national and international people of the research community.
The Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information was published in April 2024 and aims to establish open research information as the standard in the scientific community. While commercial providers often control access to metadata exclusively, the Barcelona Declaration points the way to an independent and transparent research infrastructure with open research information (metadata on publications, research projects, and other research-related information).
The webinar highlighted the concrete implications of a shift to open research information for the research community. A high-caliber international panel explored the question of what the path to open research information might look like in practice.
Bianca Kramer (Executive Director, Barcelona Declaration) started the webinar by providing an overview of research information (metadata) and the Barcelona Declaration itself and its objectives.
Joeri Both (Vice Director University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Chair of the Executive Board and General Assembly, OpenAIRE) and Anne Gentil Beccot (Open Science Operations Section Leader, CERN) then explained what the implementation of the Barcelona Declaration means in concrete terms for their research institutions, what this implies, and how data from open sources and institutional repositories are used.
Finally, Katharina Rieck (Senior Science Policy Officer, Austrian Science Fund, FWF) explained how the FWF, as a funding agency (the first institution in Austria to sign the Barcelona Declaration), supports the goals of the Barcelona Declaration and implements them in its own systems.
The webinar concluded with an open Q&A session in which the speakers responded to questions from the participants.
Presentations Webinar
Bianca Kramer - Barcelona Declaration on Research Information
Both, J. (2026, März 5). WHY OPEN RESEARCH MATTERS. TU Wien. https://doi.org/10.48436/ssfm2-ps276
Rieck, K. (2026, März 5). The FWF's Approach to Open Research Information. TU Wien. https://doi.org/10.48436/syq0n-mb943