Since March 2024, a new project called OPENMIN - "Consolidating Open Science and Data Initiatives on Ethnic and Migrant Minorities in Europe" - has emerged from the COST Action collaboration and network. Funded by the CHIST-ERA Open Science call and supported by several national funding agencies, OPENMIN brings together a consortium of researchers and technological experts from six European countries who collaborate to consolidate and expand a range of Open Science and Open Data initiatives that foster comparative knowledge generation and research capacities on Ethnic and Migrant Minorities and Migration Studies in Europe. In particular, the OPENMIN consortium consists of the following partners: Sciences Po (CEE), France (PI and consortium coordinator: Prof Laura Morales); the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria (PI: Prof Dimitri Prandner); the University of Liège, Belgium (PI: Prof Jean-Michel Lafleur); the Kozminski University, Poland (PI: Prof Justyna Salamońska); the Youngminds company, Romania; and the University of Neuchâtel / nccr - on the move, Switzerland (PI: Prof Gianni D’Amato).

It will run for two years, from March 2024 to February 2026.OPENMIN builds on existing collaborations such as the ETHMIGSURVEYDATA,  IMISCOE and Nccr-on the move networks, and cross-fertilising initiatives of Open Science, including the Ethnic and Migrant Minorities (EMM) Survey Registry, the IMISCOE Migration Research Hub and the Swiss Nccr - on the move Migration-Mobility Survey data analysis and reuse tools, with the aim of generating European-wide infrastructures that make research and data focusing on migration findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR).