This event continues the yearly Nordic Spring Meetings bringing together bibliometricians, research information providers and policy analysts working on developing open infrastructures for bibliographic data and research information supporting policy and research. 

The aim of this meeting is to explore collaboration opportunities and identify key steps for creating sustainable and viable open infrastructure within a Nordic context. The Spring Meeting 2026 focuses on the architecture required to support openness and existing infrastructures enabling the use of bibliographic data and research information on a national and institutional level.  

Programme

Wednesday 22 April

9:45 Coffee and registration
10:15–10:45 Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture
10:45–11:15 Natalia Manola, OpenAIRE
11:15–11:45 Till Bey, SURF
11:45–12:30 Cameron Neylon, Barcelona Declaration and CoARA Steering Boards
12:30–13:30 Lunch (self paid)
13:30–14:15 Kyle Demes, OpenAlex
14:15–14:45 Yrjö Leino, CSC – IT Center for Science
14:45–15:00 Coffee
15:00–16:30 Organisation-level experiences of using open datasources in the Nordic countries

Thursday 23 April

8:45 Coffee and registration
9:15–10:00 Paulo Manghi, OpenAIRE
10:00–10:30 Peter Aspeslagh, ECOOM, University of Antwerpen
10:30–11:00 Open discussion break
11:00–12:30 National research information systems in the Nordic countries
12:30–13:30 Lunch (self paid)

This meeting is free of charge. Registration will be opened at a later date. 
For more information please contact Joonas Nikkanen, joonas.nikkanen@csc.fi.