CERN software to become central hub for EU research data 

For more than ten years, Zenodo, a CERN-born data repository, has evolved to store scientific data for an ever increasing number of research communities and to adapt to the needs of more scientific disciplines. Today, it is used by more than 8000 research organisations world-wide and has recorded over 53 million connections per year.

Now, a new initiative is taking the software to a higher level: HORIZON-ZEN. Started in June 2023, this Horizon Europe project funded by the European Union aims to make this database the prime repository for EU research data. 

Zenodo is the brainchild of the EU's open science policy. The European Commission has high hopes for this service, which could eventually become one of the EU's main repositories for research data.

– Lars Holm Nielsen, Section Leader in Open Science Repositories in CERN’s IT department