Project Details

Project acronym: PRIME
Full project title: Progressing the Research Infrastructure towards Maturity & ERIC Status
Project duration: 30 months from 1 March 2026 – 31 August 2028
Number of partners: 14
Contact:  project-office@operas-eu.org 
Funding: HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01
Project page on Cordis: –

Project Description

OPERAS exemplifies the pathway of transformation from a national initiative into a distributed European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC). Incorporated as a non-profit association under Belgian law (AISBL) in late 2019, OPERAS was included in the ESFRI Roadmap in September 2021 and is now on track to become an ERIC by late 2027 or early 2028. The OPERAS-PLUS project (2022–2025) has laid the foundations for this transition by guiding OPERAS through the preparation of its statutes and technical and scientific description, to be delivered by the end of 2025 for feedback from the European Commission. OPERAS-PRIME marks the next stage, focusing on achieving the necessary level of organisational and operational readiness for the official ERIC creation request. 

Partners:

  • OPERAS Open Access in the European Area through Scholarly Communication,BE
  • EKT Ethniko Kentro Tekmiriosis Kai Ilektronikou Periechomenou, EL
  • ERIH+ Direktoratet for Hoyere Utdanning Og Kompetanse, NO
  • FECYT Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología, F.S.P. ES
  • IBL PAN Instytut Badan Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk, PL
  •  JISC JISC LBG, UK
  • MWS Max Weber Stiftung Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland, DE
  • OAPEN Stichting Oapen*Open Access Publishing in European Networks, NL
  • TSV Tieteellisten Seurain Valtuuskunnasta, FI
  • UC Universidade de Coimbra, PT
  • UNITO Universita degli Studi di Torino, IT
  • UNIZD Sveuciliste u Zadru, HR
  • ZRC SAZU Znanstvenoraziskovalni center slovenske akademije znanosti in umetnosti, SI
  • CNRS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS, FR

Project Outcomes:

  • OPERAS ERIC 
  • Services portfolio and Information Management System (IMS)
  • Innovation Lab
  • National Nodes
  • Global development strategy