Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, will participate in the COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) Annual Meeting 2022.

This year’s theme is ‘The Role of Repositories in the Radical Transformation of Scholarly Communications’. The programme will focus on initiatives to connect and modernize repositories and their networks, including discussion of progress and plans for the COAR Notify Project.

The keynote speech will be delivered by Dr Björn Brembs, neurobiologist and outspoken advocate for open science and scholarly publishing reform. The meeting, in hybrid mode, in-person in Madrid, Spain, and online, is hosted and co-organized by El Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC - the Spanish National Research Council). The meeting is open to all COAR members, partners, and invited guests. 

EIFL is a COAR member and Kuchma serves on the COAR Executive Board.