UB - University of Barcelona (Spain)

Ignasi Labastida

Dr. Ignasi Labastida is the Head of the Research Unit and the Office for the Dissemination of Knowledge at the CRAI (Learning and Research Resource Center) of the Universitat de Barcelona (crai.ub.edu) . He is leading different projects towards openness related with open educational resources, open access and open data within his own institution and partnering with external institutions. He has been a member of the OCW Consortium Board of Directors on behalf of Creative Commons and a member of the Administrative Council of Communia, an International Association on the Public Domain built on the eponymous Thematic Network. Currently, he is engaged in the LEARN project funded by the European Commission aimed at the implementation of the LERU Roadmap for Research Data. He is also member of the Steering Committee of the CIO Community of the LERU. He is member of the Working Group on Libraries Research Support at the Catalan Consortium of University Services