Recent meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.
Mission & Goals
The Open Source Imaging Initiative (OSI²) e.V. is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting open-source medical imaging technology. Medical imaging plays a crucial role in diagnosing and treating various diseases, as well as advancing our understanding of their underlying causes. Our objective is to extend the health benefits of modern imaging devices to people worldwide. Through open communication and non-exclusive utilization of this information, we enable: 1. The construction and upkeep of devices at a fraction of the cost of current instruments. 2. Sustainable enhancement of devices via knowledge and technology transfer to resource-limited regions. 3. More transparent decision-making processes for enhancement, ongoing development, and scientific and clinical 4. assessment of the instruments. 5. Improved assessment of safety and performance.
EU Legislative Interests
- open-source-related policies, specifically regarding hardware - policies targeting public medical infrastructure, specifically diagnostic imaging - funding initiatives related to open source (hardware) and reference technology - European standardization schemes, specifically regarding open standards and the collaboration with related bodies
Communication Activities
https://europeanopensource.academy/sites/default/files/2026-01/European%20Open%20Source%20Award%20Magazine%20Jan26_PRESSREADY%202%20%281%29.pdf (last article) https://www.opensourceimaging.org/news/ https://media.ccc.de/v/why2025-117-open-source-imaging-open-source-standard-hardware https://doi.org/10.1002/nbm.5052
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
- membership at GLS Bank - partnership with Open Source Ecology Germany e.V. (non-profit) on the IT infrastructure - informal collaboration with Private.coffee ‐ Verein zur Förderung von Privatsphäre und digitaler Souveränität (non-profit) on other IT concerns as well as other open source hardware communities, such as the Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH), OpenFlexure, MRI4all, OCRA, Global Innovation Gathering (GIG) etc.
Organisation Members
currently 15 individuals (13 EU, 1 UK, 1 PY) no official subordinate partnerships at the moment (such as supporting organizations etc.)
Additional Information
Our activities rely mainly on the following 2 pillars of resources, not on the annual budget mentioned above: 1) free contributions from our and associated communities 2) the interest in the academic / R&D domain 1) includes office spaces (free of charge by the Open Culture Agency), web page (developed free of charge by someone who really likes our initiative, now maintained by association members), IT resources (either free SaaS plans from open source platforms or very inexpensive support from Open Source Ecology Germany), PR efforts, consultancy etc. Regarding 2): Low-field MRI receives revived interest in academia since a couple of years, and together with advances of the Open Science movement, up to now Open Source Imaging received the vast majority of technical contributions from academic groups all across the globe (mainly Europe). Meaning, that the open source MRI became a platform to connect scientific and R&D efforts to a tangible impact case. As it grew, so did the interest from indirect, yet related academic groups, such as AI-assisted diagnostics, since an open source scanner features a fully characterized system and data across multiple research groups becomes comparable. All of that happened without any formal legal body as a coordinator or contact person, but in an informal community pulling the strings together. Some of these research groups receive EU funding, e.g. the A4IM project https://www.a4im.ptb.de/ . However, they are not directly associated with the non-profit association and each of them is usually larger than the association itself (founded in 2024, currently 15 members and the mentioned budget). The non-profit association, with which we're applying to this register, is an attempt to explore 2 other pillars of resources and institutionalize the coordination of the community: funding from public actors/foundations/philantropy and a membership model for commercial MRI applications (similar to the Open Compute Project).