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Frontiers Media SA

Frontiers is an award-winning Open Science platform and leading Open Access scholarly publisher.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Emmanuelle Du Chalard (Head of Unit Communications Networks, Content and Technology), Kilian Gross (Head of Unit Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

2 Oct 2025 · Exchange of views on EU copyright and AI policy

Meeting with Michael Arentoft (Head of Unit Research and Innovation)

2 Oct 2025 · Exchange of views on: use of AI in scientific research; peer reviewed scientific results and data openly available; novel uses of AI in fraud detection, research data curation and discovery acceleration.

Meeting with Emmanuelle Du Chalard (Head of Unit Communications Networks, Content and Technology), Kilian Gross (Head of Unit Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

2 Oct 2025 · Exchange of views on EU copyright and AI policy

Meeting with Christian Ehler (Member of the European Parliament)

2 Jun 2025 · Scientific data sovereignty

Meeting with Christian Ehler (Member of the European Parliament)

5 Mar 2024 · Science policy

Meeting with Lina Gálvez (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Jul 2023 · Frontiers - research and open science (meeting with APA)

Meeting with Kurt Vandenberghe (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen)

29 Sept 2021 · Forum Session with Al Gore

Response to Communication on the future of research and innovation and the European Research Area

3 Aug 2020

Research & innovation – future of the European Research Area (communication) Frontiers is an Open Access (OA) publisher and open science platform whose mission is to make all science open so that we can all live healthy lives on a healthy planet. We welcome and support the initiative to relaunch and revitalise the ERA and wish to stress the importance of further promoting open science, including OA, as a fundamental modus operandi across the ERA. At a time when research budgets are under economic pressure and we face a global pandemic, it is inconceivable that billions should be spent in Europe on a scientific publishing system that restricts access to knowledge by putting publicly funded research behind paywalls. ERA should encourage Member States to take tangible steps for the divestment of public funds currently used to buy access to expensive paywalled content – a significant burden on the public purse – and shift available funds to support OA. Optimal circulation of and access to scientific knowledge is an ERA priority. The benefits of open science/OA for science, society and global sustainability and maximising return on public investment in research are widely recognised. We believe that the full exploitation of digital open science/OA is also pivotal to the new ERA initiative, i.e. to make ERA future-proof, optimized for the digital and green transition, and resilient post Covid 19. Indeed, the critical importance of open circulation and sharing of trusted scientific knowledge has been underscored definitively during the pandemic. Specifically, open science and Open Access are key means to: • Foster excellence (by improving transparency, reproducibility and reliability) • Improve the efficiency and productivity of science • Promote collaboration and interdisciplinarity – essential for addressing key global challenges • Facilitate powerful and increasingly important digital research tools such as text and data mining that allow analysis of vast datasets • Help tackle fake news. To date progress on the European Commission’s commitment to a transition to full (i.e. without any copyright restrictions) and immediate OA (without any embargoes) is slow, as acknowledged in the ERA 2018 progress report. Therefore, as a top priority ERA should renew its efforts to push open science forward and continue Europe’s leading role in this area via all relevant opportunities. This includes (but is not limited to) supporting Plan S implementation and other measures to help drive truly transformative change to full and immediate OA to articles and data across all member states as well as at EU level. Policies should also foster an enabling environment for all actors within an open science ecosystem – including via incentives and open science training for researchers, fostering an EU-wide workforce of data scientists/managers, and establishment of suitable infrastructure and open science technologies (e.g. continued establishment of the European Open Science Cloud). To monitor progress, a wider, optimised suite of indicators for OA adoption should be developed with stakeholders for use in future ERA progress assessments.
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