OSCARS is another brick towards making science more open and FAIR. By promoting FAIR data practices and deploying shared tools and services, it helps researchers reuse knowledge across disciplines and over time — reducing duplication and maximising collective effort. Through OSCARS, we aim to involve the wider scientific community and steer a genuine cultural shift: one where Open Science and Open Research become the new standard.
Nicoletta Carboni is Senior Communication & Content Strategist at the Central European Research Infrastructure Consortium, CERIC-ERIC. Since the Consortium's establishment in 2014, she has shaped its communication identity and strategy, and led dissemination, outreach, and impact activities across the Consortium and its regional and European projects, including ACCELERATE, ERIC Forum, PaNOSC, and OSCARS.
Her work spans science writing, content strategy, visual communication, and stakeholder engagement, with a focus on making complex research infrastructures legible and compelling to diverse audiences.
Nicoletta holds a BA in Communication Studies and an MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Her professional path has taken her through the press and communication offices of leading European institutions — the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) in Budapest, AREA Science Park in Trieste, the European Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016, and the Italian Embassy and Italian Cultural Institute in Belgrade. She has also lectured on corporate communication and branding within the Executive Masters in Management of Research Infrastructures at the University of Milano Bicocca.
Alongside her institutional work, she collaborates with organisations and associations as a dance therapist and creative movement facilitator, working with groups of all ages and abilities in Italy and Argentina.