Raphaëlle Bats is the co-head of the URFIST Bordeaux (Unité Régionale de Formation à l’Information Scientifique et Technique), University of Bordeaux, France. There, she is organizing training sessions and conferences about scholarly communication, data, open sciences, academic writing, open science, citizen science, etc. for PhD students, researchers and librarians. She defended her PhD Thesis in October 2019: “From Participation to Collective Mobilization: public libraries looking for their democratic vocation” (dir. Denis Merklen and Etienne Tassin). She still running different research projects about participation, information and climate change, and specifically the project ECODOC that aims to design tools to engage a dialog between scientific information and lay information in territories facing climatic transition. Raphaëlle Bats was involved in the « International Advocacy Programme » of IFLA since 2016. She led a French national group on the topic of Agenda 2030 and French Libraries. She is member of the ELSIA Expert Group (European Libraries and Sustainability Implementation and Assessment) of EBLIDA. Raphaëlle Bats was elected president of AIFBD (Association internationale francophone des bibliothèques et de la documentation) from 2017 to 2020. Raphaëlle Bats joined the WG Citizen Science of LIBER in June 2021. She launched and animated the webinar #BiblioCovid19 « Libraries in time of crisis : the case of covid 19 » from March to December 2020 for FrenchSpeaking librarians. For this action, she received the « Librarian of The Year 2020 Award », by the French journal Livre Hebdo.