Thank you

SPARC Europe is indebted to those who made it possible to bring together Europe’s Open Data Champions.

We would like to thank some of SPARC Europe members and their engaged colleagues, as well as the champion university managers, administrators and scholars from seven countries so far. Their contributions have been invaluable. More will join us in the future.

Participating academic libraries (in alphabetical order)

Academic libraries have been driving the implementation of Open Data together with the research community across Europe. They have been partnering with their institution’s researchers, institutional managers, and administrators to help unlock research more rapidly.

The following persons deserve special thanks for their commitment to this project by sharing their champion’s stories with the broader Open Data community:

• Helene N. Andreassen, University Library, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway
• Beate Eellend, National Library of Sweden
• Margaret Louise Fotland, Education and Research Administration Office, University of Oslo
• Dr. Joyce Heckman, Scholarly Communication, University of Cambridge
• Maria Johnsson, Lund University Library, Lund University
• Mari Elisa Kuusniemi, Helsinki University Library, University of Helsinki
• Monica Lassi, Lund University Library, Lund University
• Jette Guldborg Petersen, Lund University Library, Lund University
• Laura Rueda, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
• Frank Scholze, KIT Library, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• Dr. Dzulia Terzijska, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• Sacha Zurcher, Roskilde University

Champions from European academic institutions (in alphabetical order)

Europe’s Open Data Champions contains the stories/accounts and views of Open Data leaders from seven countries with scholars from a range of disciplines and at various stages of their careers. They are dedicating time to opening access to scholarly research output through data to differing extents, be this personally, in their institutions, within their communities, countries or Europe. Their stories show both similar strong motivations as well as more distinct convictions that result in inspiring reading.

We would like to thank the research managers, administrators, research data professionals and scholars who spent their time sharing their views, visions and ideas on how to bring more Open Data to Europe’s research with the international Open Access community via this project.
We would particularly like to thank:

• Ari Asmi, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Prof Jeppe C Dyre, Roskilde University, Denmark
• Rosie Higman, University of Cambridge, now the University of Manchester, UK
• Dr Maggie Hellström, Lund University, Sweden
• Prof Sverker Holmgren, Uppsala University, Sweden
• Prof. Laura A. Janda, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway
• Dr Nicole Jung, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
• Prof Eva M. Mendez Rodriguez, Universidad Carlos Madrid III, Spain
• Gustav Nilsonne, Karolinska Institute and Stockholm University, Sweden
• Prof Alexander Refsum Jensenius, University of Oslo, Norway
• Dr Marta Teperek, University of Cambridge, UK, now Delft University of Technology, NL
• Prof. Tuuli Toivonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Mikko Tolonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Kirstie Whitaker, University of Cambridge, UK

Our sincere thanks!

If you have a champion that is not yet included and they are doing inspiring and important work, please let us know!