#1 Forum for policymakers and funders from Africa, Europe, and Latin America on Diamond Open Access
ALMASI brings together the unique new Diamond OA Policy Forum of international, national, and local policymakers and funders in three regions that the ALMASI project addresses: Africa, Europe and Latin America. This forum is a place for participants to discuss nonprofit scholarly publishing policy and funding needs, progress, and related challenges. The Forum will also include international funders supporting development work.
Sharing expertise on developing policy recommendations and funding mechanisms internationally is key to supporting more equitable, diverse, and community-led Diamond OA scholarly publishing internationally.
In a series of events, we aim to share, discuss and develop policy recommendations and funding mechanisms that work in various contexts to support more equitable, diverse, and community-led scholarly publishing internationally.
The first meeting of the Diamond OA Policy Forum took place on Wednesday, 29th October 2025.
We welcomed:
National policymakers:
- Bianca Amaro (Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Brazil),
- Michelle Doran (National Open Research Forum, Ireland), and
- Steven Sebbale (Uganda National Council for Science and Technology)
Institutional policymakers:
- Francisco Alarcón (Consejo Superior Universitario Centroamericano),
- Nicolas Fressengeas (Université de Lorraine, France)
- Birgit Schreiber (Southern African Regional Universities Association),
ALMASI partners:
- Arianna Becerril García (Redalyc, AmeliCA, Autonomous University of the State of Mexico),
- Susan Murray (African Journals Online),
- Vanessa Proudman (SPARC Europe)
- Johan Rooryck (OPERAS)
and Victoria Tsoukala, representing the European Commission, which funds ALMASI.
1st Diamond OA Policy forum
Wednesday, 29th October 2025
>> Replay available here
>> Slides from the first Diamond OA Policy forum