On Tuesday, 19th November, 2024, the last RIS Office of the project period took place at TU Wien. Over the past few years, the RIS Office proved itself as a tried-and-tested co-working mode: Once a month, different partner institutions invited the project team to come visit and work together.

The conference Kubernetes Community Days Austria brings over 400 international cloudnatives to Vienna on Oct 8-10 2024.

TUW offered again the lecture series „Hands-On Cloud Native“ during SommerSemester 2024. Open to all Austrian Universities at the faculty for computer science during 13 four-hour lectures.

On 10th and 11th October, another RIS Synergy consortium meeting took place at the University of Vienna. The meeting’s focal points were the concept study for a national research portal and the consolidation of RIS Synergy’s project results.

The second project meeting following the project launch in July 2023 was held at Graz University of Technology on 17 and 18 September. After just over a year of project duration, the focus was on the review of the first project phase and the outlook for the following phases.

This year, the Austrian Bioinformatics Workshop took place on July 3, 2024, at the Medical University of Graz.

The Public Relations Working Group, consisting of members of TU Graz, TU Wien and the University of Vienna, drew up a manifesto in the run-up to the symposium "Cross-Cutting Research Support Services", which took place on 14 May 2024.

The FAIR-IMPACT National Roadshow visited Austria on June 18th. This event was hosted by the Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) as part of “Shared RDM Services & Infrastructure” project. Around 50 participants from Austria and beyond joined to explore the latest advancements in Open Science within the country and to learn about outcomes from EOSC-related projects, including FAIR-IMPACT.

In collaboration with expert representatives of different portals, RIS Synergy produced a screencast about national and regional research portals.

This year’s EARMA Conference took place 23-25 April in Odense, Denmark. Representatives of the project consortium introduced an international audience to the RIS Synergy interfaces and the concept study for a national research portal.

The 16th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems (CRIS2024) took place at the TU Wien from May 15 to 17, 2024. CRIS 2024 is the sixteenth edition in a biennial series of conferences on CRIS systems. The conferences are organised by euroCRIS, with this year’s CRIS 2024 locally organised by RIS Synergy, the TU Vienna and the University of Vienna. The conference brought together around 200 international experts in research information systems.

CRIS2024 took place from May 15 to 17, 2024, at TU Wien. It is the 16th conference in a series of international events held every two years by euroCRIS on the topic of research information systems (abbreviated CRIS: current research information systems).