Published on: 15/01/2025
The European Diamond Capacity Hub & the ALMASI EU funded Project held a joint event on the 14th and 15th January 2025 in Madrid, Spain, to mark the announcement of their launch.
The ALMASI project
ALMASI has the ambition to provide the research community across Africa, Europe and Latin America with
a nonprofit, high-quality, and sustainable scholarly communication ecosystem. This is the first European
project to gather these 3 regions with the major aim to set common standards and grounds that will serve as an example for the international Diamond Open Access (OA) community.
ALMASI is a pilot project aimed at increasing quality, strategic alignment, equity, diversity, inclusivity, and
multilingualism of nonprofit OA publishing worldwide. It will establish a framework for knowledge transfer in terms of non-technological publishing skills, management, and funding through sharing best practices and developing training materials.
This project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme, started on 1st January 2025 and will run for three years. Led by ESF, the consortium involves 16 partners, bringing together national, regional and institutional open science and scientific publishing expertise and experience from Africa, Europe and South America.
Various partners of the EC-funded DIAMAS and CRAFT-OA projects are also taking part in ALMASI, joining with new partners from Africa and the Americas (South Africa, Canada, Mexico) in a strong new consortium.
The European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH)
The European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) aims to strengthen the Diamond OA community in Europe by supporting European institutional, national and disciplinary capacity centres and Diamond publishers and service providers in their mission of Diamond OA scholarly publishing. By providing coordination, sustainability, training modules, technical tools, and services at scale, the EDCH provides valuable resources to these Diamond stakeholders. In doing so, the EDCH answers the need for capacity building in the Diamond OA community that was expressed in the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access.
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