Tomás Alves at the OPERAS 2026 & SCIROS Conference

Last week, Warsaw (Poland) hosted the OPERAS 2026 & SCIROS Conference, between 18 and 21 May, under the theme One Network, Many Possibilities: Strengthening the OPERAS Community.

Over four days, researchers, infrastructure specialists, and open science practitioners gathered to advance the conversation around scholarly communication in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH).

Representing Iscte-Knowledge and Innovation was BRU-Iscte researcher Tomás Alves presented a poster on RDMC-SSH: Research Data Management Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities.

The conference was an opportunity to reflect on how OPERAS, as a pan-European research infrastructure, can better serve the SSH community: fostering collaboration, improving discoverability of SSH outputs, and building the shared tools and standards that open science requires.
Key themes running through the programme included the sustainability of open access publishing in SSH, the role of multilingualism in European scholarly communication, and the value of community-driven infrastructure.