Milica Ševkušić, EIFL Open Access Programme Project Coordinator, will be among facilitators of the 8th OpenAIRE Open Science Train-the-Trainer Bootcamp. 

Ramune Petuçhovaite, EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme Manager, will attend the 12th Baltic Librarians’ Congress (CoBaL).

The Congress of Baltic Librarians, organized by librarians from the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), is held every five years.  The 2025 Congress will focus on the role of libraries in strengthening literacy in society.

EIFL’s Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager, Teresa Hackett, will attend two events in Geneva: the launch celebration of the Centre on Knowledge Governance and the 47th session of WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights.

The mission of the Centre on Knowledge Governance is to promote justice and sustainable development in policy-making institutions that govern access to and use of information, such as WIPO, WHO and WTO.

Join us for the EIFL online meet-up of open science trainers, which will address a range of topics, including hybrid events as a training format and a checklist for organizing a successful hybrid event; using OpenAlex, and the acceptability of the use of AI (artificial intelligence) in academic writing among students. There will also be time to discuss open science training plans. 

EIFL and OpenEdition have renewed their agreement for the OpenEdition Freemium collection of journals for one year, until December 2026.  This agreement provides libraries in 28 countries with free access to 184 journals + 17 bonus titles.

Around 80% of the journals are published in French, and other languages include English, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The journals are available in HTML, PDF and ePub formats without technical (DRM) restrictions

Universidade Óscar Ribas in Angola has initiated a project that will strengthen the quality and visibility of its journal, SAPIENTIAE, and expand its reach and impact in Angola and other countries in Africa. 

SAPIENTIAE is a Diamond open access multilingual (Portuguese, Spanish and English) multidisciplinary academic journal that is committed to the development of science and the dissemination of knowledge generated through research. 

Join us for this webinar introducing UMinho Editora, the academic press of the University of Minho, and PUB IN, the Portuguese national infrastructure for scholarly journal publishing.

Pedro Principe, Carla Marques and Marta Morgado (University of Minho) will show how Open Journal Systems (OJS) is used to support the entire editorial workflow – from submission and peer review to publication –  in the two platforms and how it contributes to interoperability, visibility, and the adoption of Open Science practices in Portuguese journals.

EIFL Open Access Programme Project Coordinator Milica Ševkušić will run a session on Digital and AI tools for peer reviewers at the training course, ‘Peer review in the era of open and reproducible science: New challenges and opportunities’. 

Ugne Lipeikaite, EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme Impact Manager, will attend the Internet Society Foundation’s Strengthening Communities/Improving Lives and Livelihoods (SCILLS) programme regional meeting of projects in Ghana and Senegal. She will represent the Digital Learning @ Ghana Public Libraries project, implemented by EIFL, the Ghana Library Authority (GhLA) and TechSoup, with support from the SCILLS programme.

EIFL staff member, Jevgenija Sevcova, will travel to Laos to provide five days of training for teachers and students at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences (FLP) at the National University of Laos. Training will cover content, navigation and use of the FLP E-Library in teaching, learning and research. In addition, Sevcova will deliver a public lecture, giving an overview of the E-Library.

The programme is as follows:

This call closed on 10 November. Winners will be announced early in the New Year (2026).

Growing numbers of public libraries are incorporating STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) activities in their services and programmes. 

STEAM is a learning approach that stimulates curiosity and creativity, and builds skills that are useful for education, work and day-to-day life, like problem solving, critical thinking, communications and collaboration, while simultaneously developing learners' knowledge of STEAM subjects. 

Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, will talk about EIFL's global support in promoting open access and open science at the international conference, Open science and the infrastructure of scientific information in Albania. The conference is organized by the Center for the Coordination and Dissemination of Scientific Information (QKPISH), Academy of Sciences of Albania. in cooperation with Institute of Information Science – IZUM – Slovenia.