ANNUAL REPORT, FUTURE PLANS AND A NEW BOARD
Amsterdam, August 12th, 2026
2025 was a difficult year, similar to previous years that also were difficult years.
Much was caused by various issues in the private lives of our founder and board members that caused neglect in the ongoing mission for open access and open science.
As you know United Academics is operated by volunteers thus upheavals in one’s private life have profound effects. With our newfound energies and plans we think to be able to address our short comings and secure the future of United Academics foundation. More about this below.
From a financial perspective 2025, like 2023 and 2024, has been disastrous. We did not receive any donations and as a result were not able to organize any events. We did manage to keep our magazine (www.ua-magazine.com) operational notably as a result of the dedication of our editor in chief, Josefina. Thank you for your continued support.
The costs of upkeep, IT costs, banking costs and other costs were completely covered by payments of our founder.
Our profit and loss statement 2025 for that reason reads as follow;
IT costs / domain registrations: € 367,66
Banking costs: € 254,03
total expenses: € 621,69
donations and other income: € 0,00
founder payments: € 592,66
total income: € 592,66
ANNUAL LOSS 2025 € 29,03
Our balance sheet per December 31st, 2025
ASSETS € 0,00
LIABILITIES € 29,03
equity € 29,03
The founder guarantees the balance owned.
FUTURE PLANS
After the last couple of years it has been decided to renew the board and to start reinvesting on our domains including our open access library, www.coalibry.org
It has also been decided to allow for limited advertising on our magazine website in order to create some revenue and thus ensuring a financial way forward.
Our IT manager believes that with the new technologies becoming available in the realm of AI the mission of United Academics can be fulfilled in easier and less costly ways possible in the past.
Thus 2026 and 2027 are challenged by the continuous upkeep of our main sites, the exploitation of our magazine and the development of an AI driven consolidated open access library.
To assure better traction we are planning to publish a quarterly management brief to update our followers. We will start utilizing social media to this effect in a better way.
OUR NEW BOARD
Louis Lapidaire; Founder and chairman
Erik Schoorl; CIO/CTO
Secretrary; tbd (publishing, social media)
Treasurer; Robert Jan Baaijens
Advisor to the Board; Lucas Bergkamp
bio’s and pictures will be added asap.