In the context of the OPERAS-PRIME project, and looking forward to scaling the impact of OPERAS services, we’ve launched the OPERAS Services Ambassador Initiative.

The OPERAS Services Ambassadors should be those already involved in the national community. They will receive training and support from the OPERAS Services and the Communications team to prepare and deliver dissemination activities in their national context regarding the OPERAS services. The goal is twofold: expanding national community access to OPERAS services, while empowering the National Nodes to provide support to researchers and other stakeholders. 

Incentives & recognition

This voluntary role is based on community engagement. Upon successful completion of the full cycle (recruitment, training, session preparation and session delivery), ambassadors will be formally added to the OPERAS Services Ambassadors Network. They will gain visibility by being featured on the OPERAS website as one of the OPERAS Services Ambassadors.

This is an opportunity for the national community to flourish and for the ambassador to be strongly connected with the Research Infrastructure and Open Science.

Ideal candidates

We welcome strong advocates for Open Science, comfortable delivering public presentations in both English and their national language, and eager to lead engaging activities for their communities. As mentioned above, candidates should also be available to participate in training and willing to prepare and deliver sessions for their national community, either online or in person.

Round 1: Publishing, transparency, and impact
Services: Pathfinder, Metrics and PRISM.

Recruitment: 27 April to 22 May, 2026
Training: 29 May and 16 June, 2026

Ambassadors

OPERAS-GER

  • Mamta Dwivedi (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

OPERAS-HR

  • Iva Grabarić (University of Zagreb Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology)
  • Marta Ivanović (University of Zadar)

OPERAS-IT

  • Alice Orrù (CNR-ILIESI)

OPERAS-NL

  • Susanne Vanrijn (UKB/Erasmus University Rotterdam)
  • Ramazan Turgut (Directory of Open Access Journals – DOAJ)

OPERAS-PL

  • Natalia Mikołajczak (Warsaw University of Technology)

OPERAS-PT

  • Pedro Soares (Wisethorough)

OPERAS-UK

  • Toby Steiner (Thoth Open Metadata)

Bulgaria

  • Ivan Lambov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
  • Ruslana Margova (GATE Institute, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski)

Round 2: Bridging research and society
Services: VERA and Hypotheses

Recruitment: 1 to 30 September, 2026

Interested in joining round 2? Please, fill out this form.

If you want more information, please contact: drahomira.cupar@operas-eu.org and carol.delmazo@operas-eu.org