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Frontiers Media SA

Company · Media & publishing · HQ: Switzerland · Transparency Register entry

As of 8 October 2026, Frontiers Media SA appears in 3 declared MEP meetings (2 different MEPs), most often with European People's Party.

3
declared meetings
with current MEPs
2
MEPs met
€50k/yr
declared lobbying spend
self-reported to the register
0.5
lobbyists
full time equivalent

In their own words

“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.”

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“Founded in 2007, our Open Science platform has been adopted by more than three million researchers, including 200,000 researchers from top institutions serving on the Frontiers journal’s editorial boards. We have published over 500,000 rigorously certified research articles, covering 1000 academic disciplines. These articles have received 2.1 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 scientific publishers in the world.”

Stated goals from the organisation's own Transparency Register filing.

Who they meet, and when

Which groups they meet

Share of this organisation's 3 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.

European People's Party267%
Socialists & Democrats133%

Meetings by year

Declared meetings per calendar year, 2023–2025. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (1 in 2023).

2023
1
2024
1
2025
1

Group is each MEP's current political group, not necessarily the one they sat with at the time. Shares are rounded to whole percent.

The MEPs they meet most

Christian Ehler
2 meetings · EPP
Lina Gálvez
1 meeting · S&D

The 3 most recent declared meetings

DateMEPSubject
2 Jun 2025Christian EhlerScientific data sovereignty
5 Mar 2024Christian EhlerScience policy
20 Jul 2023Lina GálvezFrontiers - research and open science (meeting with APA)

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