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Overview

Lobbying Costs

75,000€

Financial year: Jan 2019 - Dec 2019

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

2 Fte (4)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

1

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    Frontiers

    EU Transparency Register

    921411924532-16 First registered on 16 Nov 2016

    Goals / Remit

    Frontiers is an award-winning Open Science platform and leading Open Access scholarly publisher. Our mission is to make research results openly available to the world, thereby accelerating scientific and technological innovation, societal progress and economic growth. We empower scientists with innovative Open Science solutions that radically improve how science is published, evaluated and disseminated to researchers, innovators and the public.

    Founded in 2007, our Open Science platform has been adopted by more than 850,000 researchers, including 125,000 researchers from top institutions serving on the Frontiers journal’s editorial boards. We have published over 170,000 rigorously certified research articles, covering 700 academic disciplines. These articles have received 1 billion views and downloads and numerous Frontiers journals are the most-cited journals in their fields – making Frontiers one of the largest and most impactful Open Science Platforms in the world.

    Main EU files targeted

    - Horizon 2020 /Horizon Europe
    - Open Access / Open Science
    - Open Data / EOSC
    - EU copyright reform

    Address

    Head Office
    Avenue du Tribunal Fédéral 34
    Lausanne 1005
    SWITZERLAND
    EU Office
    Frontiers EU Liaison Office
    c/o Interel European Affairs
    Brussels 1000
    BELGIUM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    4

    Employment timeLobbyists
    100%1
    50%1
    25%2

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    2

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    No lobbyists with EP accreditations

    Complementary Information

    None declared

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR

    Person with legal responsibility

    Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR

  • Categories

    Category

    II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations

    Subcategory

    Companies & groups

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    Memberships

    In order to safeguard the integrity of the scholarly literature and adhere to the highest quality standards and best ethical practices, Frontiers is a member of the following key bodies:

    • ALPSP – The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
    • COPE – Committee on Publication Ethics
    • OASPA – Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
    • Science Business
    • SPARC Europe

    Open Archives and Indexes

    Frontiers articles are included in the following archives and indexes to facilitate discoverability and accessibility, and to ensure long-term preservation.

    • CLOCKSS: Controlled LOCKSS
    • CrossRef
    • DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books (eBooks from our Research Topics)
    • DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals (listed with Seal of Approval)
    • MedLine
    • OpenAIRE
    • PubMed
    • PubMed Central
    • Scopus
    • Web of Science - Science Citation Index Expanded, Emerging Sources Citation Index and Journal Citation Reports.

    Integrated Service Providers

    Frontiers articles are of the highest quality – a standard we are committed to maintaining. To ensure this, we collaborate with top external service providers:

    • Altmetrics – in addition to a full suite of Frontiers article impact metrics, we have also integrated Altmetrics, allowing for alternative and objective ways to evaluate research.
    • CrossMark – all published articles are enriched with a record of the current article status.
    • Editage - authors submitting manuscripts to any Frontiers journal can benefit from specially priced and subject-relevant editing, translation and review support.
    • FigShare – to meet the data deposition requirements of our authors and help them showcase their research data outputs, a FigShare widget is embedded on all articles pages, enabling readers to view supplemental data alongside the article.
    • iThenticate – all submitted articles are checked for plagiarism and that they adhere to quality standards.
    • Microsoft Academic
    • ORCID – our networking platform, Loop, is fully integrated with ORCID, enabling authors to quickly and easily import publications.

    Member organisations

    Currently, 160 academic institutions have a Frontiers membership. The most up-to-date list can be found here: http://home.frontiersin.org/about/institutional-membership

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2019 - Dec 2019

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    75,000€

    Other financial info

    None declared

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    N/A

    Communication activities

    None

    Other activities

    None declared

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    1 meetings found. Download meetings

    The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

    • Date 29 Sep 2021 Location Brussels (VC)
      Subject Forum Session with Al Gore
      Cabinet Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen
      Portfolio President
      Attending
      • Kurt Vandenberghe (Cabinet member)
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