MULTILINGUALISM IN SCHOLARLYCOMMUNICATION – WHAT WAY FORWARD
FOR THE EU?
BREAKFAST RECEPTION

Hosted by Henna Virkkunen
24 March 08:00-09:30
Member’s Salon, ASP Floor 0, European ParliamentParticipation in this event is by invitation only

Multilingualism is particularly relevant for Europe, as its research is characterised by geographic, cultural andlinguistic diversity. The EU and its institutions have a duty to enhance, promote and uphold linguistic diversity inEurope. Current EU science policies, evaluation protocols and monitoring tools do not embrace multilingualism as
key requirement. Sustainable open access to research knowledge in different languages has to be a shared
European concern. The Helsinki Initiative was launched in April 2019 to promote the diversity and value ofmultilingualism in scholarly communication: www.helsinki-initiative.org.

Welcome and Introduction
WelcomeHenna Virkkunen (MEP, EPP Group)

Why and how should the European Union promote multilingualism in scholarly communication?
Emanuel Kulczycki (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Poland)
Moderator: Lea Ryynänen-Karjalainen (Federation of Finnish Learned Societies)

Recommendations and Debate
Balancing international excellence and local relevance in EU science policy– why Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and Open Science need multilingualism?
Gunnar Sivertsen (NIFU – Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education, Norway)

Valuating multilingualism in evaluation of academic work
– how does the Helsinki Initiative complement the DORA declaration and the Leiden manifesto?
Tim Engels (ECOOM Antwerp, Belgium)

Monitoring multilingualism in European scholarly communication– how to develop a comprehensive European Scholarly Publication Infrastructure?
Hanna-Mari Puuska (CSC – IT Center for Science, Finland) & Tim Engels

Providing resources for national journals and book publishers– why sustainable Open Access needs technical and financial support?
Jadranka Stojanovski (University of Zadar, Croatia)
Founding signatories of the Helsinki Initiative are: Federation of Finnish Learned Societies (TSV), Committee for PublicInformation (TJNK), Finnish Association for Scholarly Publishing, Universities Norway (UHR) and COST Action "European
Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities" (ENRESSH)

Balancing international excellence and localrelevance in EU science policy

Multilingualism is invisible in EU science policies- EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation andthe European Research Area
- European Research Council- Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)- Open Science Agenda

Multilingualism keeps locally relevant research
alive, enables pathways to societal impact, andpromotes public understanding of science
Internationalization policies must take into
consideration differences between research
fields and countries in use of English andnational languages in scholarly communication

Kulczycki et al. (2018): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-018-2711-0

Valuating multilingualism in evaluation ofacademic work
Multilingualism is not promoted in responsible
evaluation guidelines endorsed by many
European institutions and policies- DORA (San Francisco declaration on research assessment)- The Leiden manifesto for research metrics- Metric tide -reportExpert- and metrics-based evaluation andfunding protocols should fully acknowledge
multilingual dissemination of research
European researchers should not be evaluatedbased only on databases (Web of Science andScopus), in which multilingual work is invisible

Kulczycki et al. (2020): https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24336

Monitoring multilingualism in European
scholarly communication

EU currently makes no effort to monitor
multilingualism in scholarly communication
A European infrastructure comprehensivelyindexing and linking to European research has
been envisioned but not accomplished- European Science Foundation (2009)- European Parliament Research Service (2014)- European Commission (2010, 2019).

European Infrastructure providing
comprehensive and curated publication
information can be integrated from national
and institutional information systems

Providing resources for national journals andbook publishers

EU does not currently support its most valuable
infrastructure enabling multilingualism: national
language journals and book publishers
Local publishers are vital for multilingual
dissemination of research according to highstandards of research integrity and quality
Local publishers are often not-for-profit
institutions or societies that need both technicaland financial resources to enable open access
European OA targets cannot be met sustainably
without taking care of national publishers

Puuska et al. (2018): https://doi.org/10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.5993506