Digital transformation continues to reshape higher education, expanding access to research, teaching, and learning resources through open approaches. These include Open Access, Open Science, Open Education, Open Infrastructure, Open Innovation, and Open Source and Open Hardware.
« We are thrilled to announce the publication of our 2025 Annual Report.
This year, we made significant progress toward our new strategic goals, in addition to following through on our work from previous years and seeing an increasing impact as a result. (…) »
« The DIAMAS final conference celebrated the 9 project outputs that have been integrated into the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) in Brussels on 3 June 2025. It shone a light on how DIAMAS outputs will support the community to implement and…
« March 12, 2025 – Today, LIBER, OpenAIRE, SPARC Europe, and COAR are publishing a plan of action to strengthen and future-proof research repositories in Europe.
A robust repository network is key for safeguarding Europe’s research production and…
« (…) As we reflect on SPARC Europe’s highlights in 2024 and the conclusion of our 2021-2024 Strategy, what stands out most prominently is the increasing engagement of the communities we work with. Through our leadership, we’ve seen the engagement of over 2,500 individuals in 2024 through multiple networks, projects and…
« A new strategy will guide SPARC Europe’s work over the next four years. The vision behind our strategy continues to be that European education and research be open by default for the Higher Education community, research, education, industry, and for society as a whole. (…) »
« The PALOMERA project wraps up after two years of in-depth work on Open Access books policy in Europe. SPARC Europe is proud to have participated in this project.
PALOMERA has striven to speed up the transition to Open Access for books by deepening our knowledge…
« Navigating Risk in Vendor Data Privacy Practices: An Analysis of Springer Nature’s SpringerLink documents a variety of practices that undermine library privacy standards. SpringerLink provides a case study in the encroachment of the broader surveillance-based data brokering economy into academic systems. (…) »
« In January 2023, OpenAIRE, LIBER, SPARC Europe, and COAR unveiled a joint strategy to strengthen the European repository network. This aim is to further strengthen the open science landscape in Europe by reinforcing and enhancing repositories across Europe by emphasizing their value, spreading best practices,…
« This is the 2023 edition of the SPARC Europe Open Education Survey amongst Higher Education institutions in Europe, in consultation with the European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL). The report is for policymakers and practitioners who support or intend to support OE and OER in higher education institutions and…
