Explore how SPARC Europe is using our expertise, influence and relationships to help make Open the default in Europe.

2023 Annual Report

Report highlights include:

  • Supporting over 20 national OS policymakers by facilitating CoNOSC: sharing knowledge on research assessment, publishing, copyright and OA and OS policy monitoring.
  • Running a Retain your Rights Campaign through Project Retain focussed on rights retention: underpinned by extensive European research with our Opening Knowledge: Retaining Rights and Open Licensing in Europe Report downloaded more than 2.5k times.
  • Gaining a better understanding of the European landscape of 1) funding Diamond OA through DIAMAS, and 2) the policy landscape of OA books at PALOMERA and publishing an Open Education policymaking research report Insights into developments in European Open Education institutional policymaking report.
  • Making progress in helping secure open infrastructure, primarily through work with SCOSS helping raise over 5.8m euros and welcoming RDA and Software Heritage to the SCOSS Family.  We also got the new community of practice of 15 OS infrastructures, ie. the SCOSS Family, to work together to strengthen the OS ecosystem on several levels.
  • Moving Open Education forward with our European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL) and our podcast and workshop series, helping librarians upskill, engage and collaborate around Open Educational Resources such as open textbooks, and setting out our policy for the next 3 years.

Download the 2023 report here.

PREVIOUS REPORTS

2022 Annual Report. Download the 2022 report here.

2021 Annual Report.  Download the 2021 report here.

2020 Annual Report. Download the 2020 report here.

For Annual Reports predating 2020, please contact us.