OPERAS Prime
Principal Investigator at ZRC SAZU
Aleš Pogačnik, MA-
Acronym
PRIME
Project Team
Nina Semolič-
Duration
1 March 2026–31 August 2028 -
Lead Partner
Partners
Greek National Documentation Centre (EKT), Direktoratet for Hoyere Utdanning Og Kompetanse (ERIH+), Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT), IBL PAN, Jisc LBG, Max Weber Stiftung (MWS), OAPEN, Tieteellisten Seurain Valtuuskunnasta (TSV), Universidade de Coimbra, Sveučilište u Zadru, Universitá di Torino, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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.
