Violaine Louvet, CNRS
Violaine Louvet is a CNRS research engineer at the Jean Kuntzmann Laboratory of Applied Mathematics in Grenoble. She is a member of the Source Code and Software College of the French Committee for Open Science and a Software Heritage ambassador.
She is deeply involved in open science at the University of Grenoble Alpes (https://scienceouverte.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/), particularly through the OSPO of the University.
Session
In September 2025, the Université Grenoble Alpes became the first French university to officially launch its OSPO.
Situated at the intersection of research labs, higher education, and the public sector, academic institutions face a unique set of challenges, constraints, and opportunities when working with open source and open science. Building on their real-world experience, Violaine Louvet (CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes) and Boris Baldassari (Eclipse Foundation, OSPO Alliance) teamed up to develop practical guidelines and recommendations for academic OSPOs, extending the OSPO Alliance’s Good Governance Handbook with field-tested feedback.
In this session, we will present this new paper, outline the key specificities of academia, and share actionable best practices to plan, build, and deploy an OSPO within research and higher education entities. This talk is tailored for anyone interested in open source and open science within European universities, regardless of their current progress or maturity level.