euroCRIS Membership Meeting 2025

May 13-15, 2025
Leuven, Belgium

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About

Two years after a successful Spring 2023 membership meeting was held in Brussels, euroCRIS is pleased to announce its return to Belgium for the Spring 2025 Membership Meeting (MM2025). The event will be held at the Provinciehuis Vlaams-Brabant.

The meeting, hosted by the Department of Work, Economy, Science, Innovation and Social Economy of the Flemish Government, will take place from Tue May 13 to Thu May 15, 2025. As usual at euroCRIS meetings, the CERIF Tutorial and the Welcome Reception will be held on Tuesday afternoon, to be followed by (among others) a National Session on Day I (Wed May 14) and a number of contributions from euroCRIS members on Day II (Thu May 15).

This MM2025 will also see a session organised by the AI4CRIS working group. This session devoted to Artificial Intelligence in the area of Research Information Management will include specific presentations and an update on the work of the euroCRIS-led group.

Programme

Pre-event day: Tue 13 May

General schedule (All times CET)

All coffee breaks and lunches during the event will be held at the Provinciehuis Foyer

10:00-15:00	euroCRIS Board meeting (venue: Provinciehuis – Room 6: Felix Sophie)
16:00-17:00	CERIF Tutorial (venue: Provinciehuis – Room 2: Albrecht)
18:00-20:00	Official Reception (venue: De Hoorn Skybox Queen)

Tickets

(available from Mar 28th, 2025)

For euroCRIS members, Strategic Partners and sponsors
FREE OF CHARGE

All others
€ 60 (lunches and coffee breaks included)

Venue

The meeting will take place at the Provinciehuis Vlaams-Brabant in Leuven
Address: Provincieplein 1, 3010 Leuven

Accommodation and Booking

Event attendees are expected to arrange their own accommodation. These are some suggestions provided by the event organisers.

Suggestions for accommodation

Park Inn Leuven

Ibis budget Leuven Centrum

Theater Hotel Leuven

Hotel Professor Leuven Centrum

Official list of hotels and similar accommodation in town (source: Visit Leuven)

Our Sponsors

Additional questions?

Send an e-mail to eurocris@eurocris.org

09:00	Official opening
09:10-09:45	Opening speech: “The 4th Generation University Initiative: its impact and relevance for CRIS systems” (Max Dumoulin, VP Portfolio Innovation, Elsevier)
09:45-13:00	National session Session chair: Ils de Bal, EWI & euroCRIS Board Member
09:45-10:15	“The role of EOSC and trustworthy repositories in ensuring data sovereignty, inclusivity, trust and transparency in FAIR access to research outputs” (Roxanne Wyns, KU Leuven & EOSC Association Director)
10:15-10:40	Coffee break
10:40-11:05	“The Flemish Research Data Network: RIM-related initiatives of the first five years” (Michiel de Vydt, FWO)
11:05-11:25	“How to build a CRIS system that lasts for 50+ years” (Alain Descamps, University of Antwerp)
11:25-11:45	“Changing Classification Schemes and Types in PURE” (Robby Pauwels, Ana Marabuto Neves, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Belgian PURE User Group lead)
11:45-12:15	“CRIS developments at Hasselt University” (Sören Kuypers, Hanne Poelmans, U Hasselt)
12:30-13:30	Lunch
13:30-14:45	Dutch session Session chair: Sophie Biesenbender, KFiD & euroCRIS Board Member
13:30-13:55	“An update from SURF” (Eileen Waegemaekers, Maurice Vanderfeesten, Till Bey, SURF)
13:55-14:20	“FRIDa: A Solution for the Post-CRIS Era?” (Nick Veenstra, Julie Kirwan, RU Groningen)
14:20-14:45	“FAIR-IMPACT: expanding FAIR solutions across Europe” (Ingrid Dillo, DANS & FAIR-IMPACT project coordinator)
14:45-15:05	Coffee break
15:05-16:25	Contributions from euroCRIS members (I) Session chair: Michael Greil, University Vienna & euroCRIS Board Member
15:05-15:25	“An update from the Commission for Research Information in Germany-KFiD: the FIS Landkarte portal and version 2 of the KDSF standard” (Sophie Biesenbender, KFiD, Germany)
15:25-15:45	“The PID Monitor portal of the PID Network Germany project” (Andreas Czerniak, University of Bielefeld, Germany)
15:45-16:05	“Metadata traceability and reuse in research projects” (Miguel Angel Sicilia, Alberto Ballesteros Rodríguez, Biomedical Data Science and Engineering group, IRYCIS, Spain)
16:05-16:25	“SoleCRIS Datasets: Navigating multiple import sources and ways to identify datasets” (Niilo Lahti, Solenovo, Finland)
17:15-18:45	Guided tour across Leuven (see “Leuven in a nutshell” tour here) Tour will start at the event venue and walk through town to the restaurant where the official dinner will be held. Registration for the tour at the euroCRIS reception desk until lunchtime on Day I.
19:00-21:00	Official dinner (venue: Brasserie ‘t Oud Gasthuys)

09:00-10:30	AI4CRIS WG session: AI & CRIS systems
09:00-09:10	Introduction to the session (António Lopes, ISCTE-IUL & euroCRIS Board member)
09:10-09:30	“AI and Innovation Initiatives for Scientific Research Funding Processes at CAPES/Brazil” (Gustavo Portella, CAPES, Brazil)
09:30-09:50	“Applying a Narrative Paradigm and Generative AI for Evaluation of Candidacy for Research Funding within Research Data Ecosystems in Brazil and Portugal” (Geraldo Sorte, CNPq; José Salm, Univ. Estado Santa Catarina (UDESC), Brazil)
09:50-10:10	“Speaking the Same Language: Using Generative AI to Drive Discoverability within CRIS Profiles” (Ghislain Onestas, Solutions Consultant, Symplectic)
10:10-10:30	Group discussion on AI4CRIS WG activity
10:30-10:50	Coffee break
10:50-12:00	Contributions from euroCRIS members (II) Session chair: Aurelia Andrés, FECYT & euroCRIS Board Member
10:50-11:15	“Implementation Status on Institutional CRIS/RIM Systems in Peru: Integration between the National PeruCRIS and Institutional CRIS systems” (Joel Alhuay-Quispe, UNMSM; Renato Velarde-Gutierrez, PUCP; Karla Peña-Pineda, INIA; Lourdes Bautista, UNMSM, Peru)
11:15-11:35	“Dialnet CRIS as an assistant to prepare assessment applications” (Óscar Sánchez, Dialnet, Spain)
11:35-11:55	“Towards integration of research information: the SK CRIS system as part of research infrastructures” (Danica Zendulková, Gabriela Gavurníková, Ján Turňa, CVTI SR, Slovakia)
11:55-12:00	Comfort break
12:00-13:00	Contributions from euroCRIS members (III) Session chair: Ognjen Orel, SRCE & euroCRIS Board Member
12:00-12:20	“The GDP Project. Development of a data standard for Swedish funders of research and Innovation” (Rickard Franzén, Vinnova; Anna Ringqvist, Formas, Sweden)
12:20-12:40	“Enhancing CRIS data quality and reliability through the Government Service Bus (GSB)” (Petra Udovičić, SRCE; Aleksandra Pikić Jugović, RBI Zagreb, Croatia)
12:40-13:00	“Pure support for research ecosystems through National Persistent Identifier Strategies. Interim review and discussion” (Malene Knudsen, Elsevier)
13:00-14:00	Lunch
14:00-14:20	“Updates from the euroCRIS Board” (Jan Dvořák, euroCRIS President)
14:20-16:00	CRISCROS WG Session
14:20-14:30	Introduction to the session (Joonas Nikkanen, CSC Espoo & euroCRIS Board member)
14:30-15:00	“The Research Organization Registry (ROR) and CRIS Infrastructure: Current Examples and Future Possibilities” (Amanda French, ROR)
15:00-15:20	“EcoCRIS: Building CRISrael as Socio-Technical Ecosystem” (Tzipy Lazar-Shoef, Israel IUCC & Bar-Ilan University; Zsófia Büttel, Elsevier)
15:20-15:40	“17 characters in search of interoperability: European University Alliances in Belgium” (Pablo de Castro, U Strathclyde & euroCRIS; Ognjen Orel, SRCE & euroCRIS; Joachim Schöpfel, U Lille & euroCRIS)
15:40-16:00	Group discussion on forthcoming CRISCROS WG activity