NEWS & EVENTS

Topic: Repositories for a Sustainable, Equitable, and Innovative Open Access Publishing

Date: 13 January 2025

Time: 10:00 - 11:30 AM (CET)

Since their inception, repositories have played a crucial role in Open Access, but challenges with commercial and fee-based models have highlighted the need for community-driven solutions. This webinar, featuring Eloy Rodrigues, will present strategies by COAR, OpenAIRE, LIBER, and SPARC Europe to strengthen repositories and promote innovative practices like the Publish-Review-Curate model and overlay journals. Join us to explore how repositories can foster sustainable and equitable publishing.

More information: here

Registration: Click here to register

 We are happy to welcome Leah Vandeveer as interim Executive Secretary for ENLIGHT! Leah will take up her new role from January until July 2025. During this time, the Directors Board and Governing Board will develop a strategy to review our current governance model. They will also prepare an open call for potential new roles resulting from this reform, which is set to launch by summer 2025.

Leah comes from within the ENLIGHT Family, having been the Project Manager for RISE, the R&I dimension of our alliance, with the University of Bordeaux in 2024.  

We would like to take this opportunity to express our gratitude to Gijs Coucke for his pioneering work with ENLIGHT over the past five years. We wish him the best of luck in his new endeavor!

At the General Meeting in Bern, 140 members of the ENLIGHT discussed our long-term vision for the alliance and how to embed it in each member university. 

The ENLIGHT Green Network is excited to introduce the Sustainable Travel Policy, a significant step in promoting environmentally conscious travel across ENLIGHT partner universities. Committed to fostering sustainable practices, ENLIGHT encourages its community to adopt sustainable travel habits for both business travel and student mobility.

This initiative promotes responsible travel choices within the ENLIGHT community, aligning with the European Union's dedication to the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). By supporting these goals and advancing the green transition, the policy aims to reduce carbon emissions and encourage more environmentally friendly mobility practices across the ENLIGHT community.

ENLIGHT is pleased to announce the next Face of ENLIGHT: Yushi Liu

Yishu Liu, a PhD student at the University of Galway, is pioneering soft robotics for insulin delivery. Originally from Changsha, China, Yishu chose Galway as the first step in her international academic journey. Earlier this year, she participated in the ENLIGHT Bio Design course in Uppsala, Sweden, where she gained valuable experience in medical device development and interdisciplinary teamwork. Outside the lab, Yishu enjoys running, traveling, and drawing inspiration from books like The Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer.

Read the full interview on the Faces of ENLIGHT page and stay tuned for more interviews to come!

Save the date! The second ENLIGHT Impact Conference is happening at the University of Groningen on 27 & 28 March 2025! Join us at this two-day event where academics, management staff and impact experts and practitioners , will come together to discuss impact in the university context..

There will be a series of roundtables, workshops, pitches and networking opportunities where participants will be able to exchange and discuss approaches for embedding impact within Universities, being in education, in research, in innovation or in service to society activities..

Additionally, the ENLIGHT Impact Awards will be presented to recognise and give visibility to endeavors at ENLIGHT universities that are exemplars in planning for and achieving impact. Don’t miss this opportunity to engage in and promote impact while learning from and networking with your peers!

Please check our 2025 Impact Conference webpage for more information.