The Hellenic Mediterranean University (HMU) has signed the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information, becoming the first Greek university to join this initiative and actively supporting the European effort to enhance transparency in the use of research information.
The Barcelona Declaration promotes the principle that information used for the evaluation of researchers, research funding decisions, and university rankings should be based on data that are openly accessible, verifiable, and available to all stakeholders. Such data include information on scientific publications (titles, authors, institutions, funding sources), bibliographic references, research projects and funding schemes, open research data, institutional repositories of doctoral dissertations, as well as research indicators based on open sources. Open access to this information enables clearer, more reliable, and more transparent research assessment processes.
In Greece, the Declaration has also been signed by the “Athena” Research and Innovation Center and the Hellenic Academic Libraries Link (HEAL-Link). In parallel, within the framework of the ATHENA European University Alliance, the Declaration has been adopted by the University of Maribor and the Hellenic Mediterranean University. At the European level, the initiative is supported by a wide range of universities, funding bodies, and institutional stakeholders.
HMU’s participation in the Barcelona Declaration reinforces the University’s commitment to the principles of open science, transparency, and responsible research assessment.
