The University of Eastern Finland has taken determined steps to develop its services and competence in the field of open science, and the results of this work can now be seen in a new evaluation report, the Atlas of Open Science and Research in Finland in 2019, published by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture. The report evaluates the openness of the operational culture of the country’s research organisations and examines how research organisations promote open science and research. 

In Denmark, Citizen Science is often used for data collection and mapping of nature areas, but at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) Citizen Science is much more than that. Citizen Science is about generating interaction and dialogue between citizens and researchers, thereby reducing the distance between them in order to encourage a debate based on knowledge and facts. 

Since 2015 NOVA has implemented a complete cycle of platforms to manage its research outputs, providing access internally to more than 3200 researchers to their CRIS system PURE and displaying their research outputs in a public portal (NOVA Research Portal), with the main goal of allowing experts and the general public to discover NOVA's Research Units, Researcher profiles and the science being developed at their institution.

On 15 June 2020, YERUN held its General Assembly, in an online format. The meeting was originally planned to take place in beautiful Maastricht, hosted by Maastricht University, but was convened virtually due to the current travel restrictions.

The day started off with a special meeting on COVID-19, which provided an occasion for experts from YERUN member institutions to exchange views and practices on three previously identified topic: teaching staff/digital education, student support and campus management. The shared information will feed into YERUN's vision on the future of higher education in Europe and the impact that the pandemic will have on shaping it.

Click here to read the full report of the meeting.

A report based on a geospatial analysis conducted by researchers from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) in collaboration with TAPTAP Digital, using additional data from Predicio and Tamoco, identifies the areas in Spain that require increased measures of protection against new outbreaks of the COVID19 epidemics.