Open Science Fair 2025

from Monday 15 September 2025 (10:00) to Wednesday 17 September 2025 (20:30)
CERN (81/R-003A)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
15 Sept 2025
16 Sept 2025
17 Sept 2025
AM
10:30 --- CERN Guided Tours for early arrivals ---
08:30 --- Doors opening ---
09:00
Invited Panel (until 10:00)
09:00 Tracking the Impact of Open Science: Are We Measuring What Matters? - Ioanna Grypari Roberto di Cosmo (Software Heritage) Zoé Ancion (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) Susan Reilly (Maynooth University) Dr Kristi Holmes (Northwestern University) Dr Ana Persic (UNESCO)  
10:00
Organisational Remarks (until 10:05)
10:00 One Minute Madness Group C  
10:05 --- Conference picture ---
10:15 --- Coffee Break ---
10:15
Demo Sessions (until 11:00) (80/R-001 Globe of Science and Innovation Ground Floor)
10:15 Advancing FAIR Principles for Research Software: Implementing a Machine Actionable Software Management Plan into DMP OPIDoR - Marie-Christine Jacquemot (CNRS - INIST) Maria Grazia Santangelo (INRIA)  
10:15 Enhancing FAIR and curation workflows with InvenioRDM - Nicola Tarocco (CERN)  
10:15 RDA Knowledge Base – one shop stop for all RDA outputs and resources - Mr Wim Hugo (DANS-KNAW)  
10:15 Talk Data to Me: Conversational AI for FAIR and Accessible Biomedical Data Discovery - Susheel Varma (Sage Bionetworks)  
11:00
Beyond Compliance: Measuring and Maximizing Open Science Impact - Angeliki Tzouganatou (until 12:30)
11:00 Global Collaboration Driving Open Science Impact: Insights from the RDA TIGER Landscape Analysis - Ms Alexandra Delipalta (RDA Europe)  
11:30 A cost benefit analysis framework for Open Science - Gelsomina (Jessica) Catalano  
12:00 Assessing Open Science Policy Landscapes in the EU: A Socio-Epistemological Evaluation - Maja Hoić (Institute for Development and International Relations)  
11:00
Building the Digital Backbone: Open Science Infrastructures - Morane Gruenpeter (Software Heritage) (until 12:30)
11:00 Enriching Scientific Knowledge Graphs with Geospatial Metadata: Toward Mapping the Energy Research Landscape in Europe - Morane Gruenpeter (Software Heritage) Prof. Jakob Rager (HES-SO Valais/Wallis)  
11:30 The dark corners of open science - Morane Gruenpeter (Software Heritage) Alex Ioannidis (CERN)  
12:00 On the importance of computational reproducibility in fostering Open and FAIR Science - Morane Gruenpeter (Software Heritage) Tibor Simko (CERN)  
11:00
Building the Digital Backbone: Open Science Infrastructures (until 12:30) (82/1-001 - Science Gateway Education Lab A)
11:00 Fostering Global Collaboration in Open Science Infrastructure Sharing - Dr Xiwen LIU (National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Ms Fang WANG (National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Dr Jinxia HUANG (National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Dr Jing XIE (National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Ms Man XIAO (National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Dr Natalia Manola (OpenAIRE)  
11:00
Open Science for All: Skills & Community (until 12:30)
11:00 Building Bridges: Cultivating Open Science Communities Within Research Institutions - Dr Lisanna Paladin (European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)) Dr Merten Dahlkemper (CERN) Dr Malvika Sharan (St Jude Childrens Hospital)  
08:30 --- Doors opening ---
09:00
Invited Panel (until 10:00)
09:00 Rethinking Research Assessment: Emerging Trends in Open Science and Infrastructure - Dr Pastora Martínez Samper (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) Natalia Manola Hans de Jonge (Open Science NL) Dr Gitanjali Yadav (National Institute for Plant Genome Research)  
10:00
Organisational Remarks - Kamran Naim (CERN) Inge Van Nieuwerburgh (University Library Ghent) (until 10:15)
10:15 --- Coffee Break ---
10:15
Demo Sessions (until 11:00) (80/R-001 Globe of Science and Innovation Ground Floor)
10:15 An Interactive AI Physicist Demonstration for Open Science - Nawar Ismail Mr Matthias Le Dall  
10:15 ARGOS in Action: A Demo on Challenging Traditional Data Management Plans with Blueprints - Elli Papadopoulou Maria Kontopidi  
10:15 Building and sustaining a Community of computational biologists at EMBL through Consulting, Training, and Infrastructure - Lisanna Paladin (European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL))  
10:15 Matilda reinventing a bibliographic search platform at the age of open science - Didier TORNY  
11:00
Beyond Compliance: Measuring and Maximizing Open Science Impact (until 12:30) (82/1-001 - Science Gateway Education Lab A)
11:00 Designing What Matters: Co-Creating Open Science Dashboards - Stefania Amodeo (OpenAIRE AMKE) Ms Marta Soricetti (Open Citation/UniBO) Alessia Bardi (ISTI-CNR) Zenia Xenou Ioanna Grypari  
11:00
Rethinking Research Assessment - Anne Gentil-Beccot (CERN) (until 12:30)
11:00 Valuing what matters: Developing new approaches to research assessment - Mathijs Vleugel  
11:30 Who Watches the Watchers? Rethinking Open Science Monitoring - Batool M  
12:00 Beyond journal metrics: Why it’s time to embrace more meaningful methods of research assessment - Dr Fiona Hutton  
11:00
Open, but at What Cost? Research Security & Open Science (until 12:30) (81/R-003A - Science Gateway Auditorium A)
11:00 Strange bedfellows, indeed: How the impact of the current political moment could accelerate an open science future - Christopher S. Marcum George Cooper (UCL) Dr Michael Anne Kyle (University of Pennsylvania) Ms Sara Rouhi (Co-Author, Declaration to #DefendResearch from US Govt Censorship (DefendResearch.org)) Dr Dan Rudmann (Utrecht University)  
11:00
Open Science for All: Skills & Community (until 12:30)
11:00 Let me tell you a story: Organising and branding Open Science at our university - Mrs Melanie Imming (IM Studio; OSC-NL) Sander Bosch (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)  
11:30 Building Open RIs Communities through Communication and Engagement Strategies: the FOSSR case - Dr Rita Giuffredi (CNR-IRCrES) Serena Fabrizio (CNR-IRCrES) Dr Alessandra Maria Stilo (CNR-IRCrES)  
12:00 LA-CoNGA and EL-BONGO physics: open science education collaborations between Latin America and Europe for advanced physics - Reina Coromoto Camacho Toro (LPNHE-Paris CNRS/IN2P3)  
PM
12:00 --- Registration ---
12:00 --- Welcome Lunch ---
14:00
Conference Opening - Kamran Naim (CERN) Inge Van Nieuwerburgh (University Library Ghent) (until 14:15)
14:00 Welcome address - Marilee Andriopoulou (OpenAIRE) Dr Merten Dahlkemper (CERN) Kamran Naim (CERN) Inge Van Nieuwerburgh (University Library Ghent) Charlotte Lindberg Warakaulle (CERN)  
14:15
Conference Opening (until 15:00)
14:15 Re-imagining Scientific Culture in a Changing World - Prof. Alexa T. McCray (Harvard Medical School and the Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center)  
15:00
Invited Panel (until 16:00)
15:00 Shaping the Future: The Policy Landscape of Open Science - Pantelis Tziveloglou (European Commission) Prof. Yusuf Baran (Izmir institute of Technology) Felix Reda (Github) Dina Petranovic (Technical University of Denmark) Bregt Saenen  
16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:45
Invited Panel (until 17:45)
16:45 Open Research Europe: A Catalyst towards Equitable Publishing - Juan Pablo Alperin Victoria Tsoukala (European Commission) Pierre Mounier (OPERAS) Katharina Rieck (Austrian Science Fund FWF) Mr Alex Kohls (CERN)  
17:45
Organisational Remarks - Giulia Malaguarnera (until 18:30)
17:45 One Minute Madness - Giulia Malaguarnera  
18:30 --- Welcome Reception ---
18:30
Demo Sessions (until 19:15) (80/R-001 Globe of Science and Innovation Ground Floor)
18:30 A national federated Science Data Platform for FAIR fundamental physics research at large research infrastructures - Christiane Schneide (DESY, PUNCH4NFDI)  
18:30 From Reproducible Research to Open Science Dissemination: A Computing Platform-Centric Approach - Paul Meijer (Allen Institute for Immunology)  
18:30 The Zenodo EPFL Community: a pragmatic view of open research data and FAIR practices - Alain Borel  
18:30 Unlocking Open Science: A Demonstration of the EOSC EU Node in Action - Thanassis Karmas (Athena Research Centre) Mr Spiros Athanasiou (Athena Research and innovation Center)  
18:30
Poster Session (until 20:00)
18:30 Advancing Research Assessment Through Knowledge-Based Infrastructure: Lessons from MERIT Project - Dr Sebastian Major (Berlin Institute of Health at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, QUEST Center for Responsible Research)  
18:30 An Immersive Open Science Experience for Student Researchers - Chasz Griego (Carnegie Mellon University Libraries)  
18:30 Beyond institutional boundaries: BioNT's collaborative model for open science digital skills training - Isabela Paredes Cisneros (European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL))  
18:30 Beyond Metrics: Catalyzing Responsible Assessment for Open Science - George Cooper (F1000)  
18:30 DIRNA Project Marks a Turning Point For Open Science in Azerbaijani Universities - Gultekin Gurdal  
18:30 DiTraRe – Towards Trusted Digital Research Workflows - Dr Felix Bach (FIZ Karlsruhe) Dr Christian Bonatto Minella (FIZ Karlsruhe)  
18:30 Enhancing Participant Recruitment and Community Engagement in Citizen Science: A Training Module from the PATTERN Project - Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen  
18:30 Enhancing Research Reproducibility: TIER2's Integration with the European Open Science Cloud - Stefania Amodeo (OpenAIRE AMKE)  
18:30 Fostering Open and FAIR Educational Resources in Danish University Libraries - Hazel Engelsmann  
18:30 PATTERN: from pilot to practice – advancing Open and Responsible Research Training: empowering researchers through modular, inclusive training in RRI and Open Science. - Pedro Príncipe Ms Paula Moura (University of Minho) Ms Antonia Correia (University of Minho)  
18:30 Reaching for the Stars - Designing Open Science Services for all Scientific Disciplines - Jana Tatscheck (Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID)) Dorian Lehmenkühler (Bielefeld University) Najla Rettberg (TU Dresden) Sandra Zänkert (ZB MED - Information Center for Life Sciences) Franziska Fritzsche (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)  
18:30 Regulation and Editorial Policies on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Open Science Publishing - Alexa Ramirez-Vega (Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica)  
18:30 Routes of Knowledge: Open Science in Costa Rican Territories — A Perspective from the Distance Higher Education Model - Carolina Seas (Universidad Estatal a Distancia, San Jose, Costa Rica. Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica.)  
18:30 Security Meets Open Science. An Integrated Self-Assessment Tool for Responsible Research Data Management - Filippo Vasone (University of Bologna) Mario Marino (University of Bologna)  
18:30 Shaping the future of Research Software Quality: The EVERSE Network - Sanje Antona Fenkart  
18:30 Socio-Economic Impact of collaborative and open science data platforms in a global project. - Irene Del Rosario Crespo Garrido  
18:30 Supporting policy processes by assuring high quality open science: the role of the Editorial Review Board of the European Commission Joint Research Centre. - Fabio Monforti Ferrario (European Commission - Joint Research Centre)  
18:30 Target group-specific approach of NFDI4Chem: Strategies to increase openness in the chemistry community - Annett Schröter  
18:30 The Data Citation Corpus: Collaboratively advancing the evaluation of the impact of open data - Iratxe Puebla  
18:30 The Double-Edged sword of Open Science: Empowering AI through ethical breaches within repositories - Vladimir Otašević (University of Belgrade, School of Electrical Engineering)  
18:30 The ETH Domain’s Data Management Campus: Co-Creating Open Research Data Skills Across Switzerland - Ms Angela Montano (EPFL)  
18:30 The European Diamond Capacity Hub: Empowering the Diamond OA community - Pierre Mounier (OPERAS)  
18:30 TREASURE: An institutional pilot program to reward graduate students for reproducible, reusable, and open research practices and outputs - Ines Almeida (Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology CNC-UC, Center for Innovative Biomedicine and Biotechnology CIBB, University of Coimbra)  
18:30 TSOSI, a new platform to broaden support to open science infrastructure - Dr Maxence Larrieu (Université Grenoble Alpes)  
19:15
Demo Sessions (until 20:00)
19:15 An Interactive AI Physicist Demonstration for Open Science - Nawar Ismail Matthias Le Dall  
19:15 ARGOS in Action: A Demo on Challenging Traditional Data Management Plans with Blueprints - Maria Kontopidi (“Athena” Research Centre) Elli Papadopoulou  
19:15 Building and sustaining a Community of computational biologists at EMBL through Consulting, Training, and Infrastructure - Lisanna Paladin (European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL))  
19:15 Matilda reinventing a bibliographic search platform at the age of open science - Didier TORNY  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Beyond Compliance: Measuring and Maximizing Open Science Impact - Ana Persic (UNESCO) (until 15:30)
14:00 The Role of Stakeholder Engagement in Citizen Science Policy Development in Finland - Elena Svahn (Åbo Akademi University) Jonni Karlsson (Federation of Finnish Learned Societies)  
14:30 Toward the Global Integration and Public Utility of Open Science: A Publication Facts Label - John Willinsky (Stanford University)  
15:00 Paradiplomacy: An alternative to strengthen Open Science. - Norma-Aida Manzanera-Silva (Center for Research on North America (CISAN), National University Autonomus of Mexico (UNAM))  
14:00
Building the Digital Backbone: Open Science Infrastructures (until 15:30)
14:00 From partnership to ecosystem: building/evolving open collaboration - Matthew Cannon Felix Reda (Github) Mr Sven Fund (Reviewer Credits) Sally Chambers (The European Library) Emma Green (Invest in Open Infrastructure)  
14:00
Building the Digital Backbone: Open Science Infrastructures (until 15:30) (82/1-001 - Science Gateway Education Lab A)
14:00 Introducing OpenREL: Rights Expression Languages for Open Science and International Data Spaces – A Practitioners’ Approach - Melios Katsamakis Mr Wim Hugo (DANS) Mr Prodromos Tsiavos (OpenAIRE)  
14:00
Rethinking Research Assessment (until 17:45) (82/1-001 - Science Gateway Education Lab B)
14:00 Collaborative Pathways to Responsible Research Assessment via Open Infrastructures - Sarah Lippincott (Invest in Open Infrastructure) Giulia Malaguarnera Angeliki Tzouganatou (OpenAIRE) Ms Zenia Xenou (OpenAIRE)  
14:00
Open Science for All: Skills & Community - Bastian Drees (EMBL) (until 15:30)
14:00 Accelerating the Pipeline: Building Equitable Global Research Pathways in Secondary Education - Janna Mino (Hathaway Brown School)  
14:30 Nudging Scientists into adopting Open Science Practices - Clemens Lange (Paul Scherrer Institute (CH))  
15:00 Challenges and Opportunities of real FAIR-by-design: The experience of the Master in Data Management and Curation (MDMC) - Mariarita de Luca (AREA SCIENCE PARK) Dr Federica Bazzocchi (AREA SCIENCE PARK)  
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
15:30
Demo Sessions (until 16:15)
15:30 A national federated Science Data Platform for FAIR fundamental physics research at large research infrastructures - Christiane Schneide  
15:30 From Reproducible Research to Open Science Dissemination: A Computing Platform-Centric Approach - Paul Meijer (Allen Institute for Immunology)  
15:30 The Zenodo EPFL Community: a pragmatic view of open research data and FAIR practices - Alain Borel  
15:30 Unlocking Open Science: A Demonstration of the EOSC EU Node in Action - Spiros Athanasiou (Athena Research and innovation Center)  
16:15
Beyond Compliance: Measuring and Maximizing Open Science Impact (until 17:45)
16:15 Made to measure: how do we responsibly monitor and assess Open Science? - Laetitia Bracco (Université de Lorraine) Dr Kirsty Merret (University of Bristol) Dr Agata Morka (PLOS) Iain Hrynaszkiewicz (PLOS)  
16:15
Building the Digital Backbone: Open Science Infrastructures (until 17:45)
16:15 Repository Reimagined: The Impact Repo Project - Mrs Nathalie Fargier (CNRS - HAL, Episciences) Kathleen Shearer (COAR) Mr Nicola Tarocco (CERN) Mr Eloy Rodrigues (University of Minho)  
16:15
Building the Digital Backbone: Open Science Infrastructures (until 17:45) (82/1-001 - Science Gateway Education Lab A)
16:15 Making Research Information Open: Shared Challenges, Shared Solutions - Dr Ana Ranitovic (University of Groningen) Dr Joeri Both (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)  
16:15
Open Science for All: Skills & Community (until 17:45)
16:15 Data for AI: From Readiness to Ethics - Prof. Perihan Elif Ekmekci (TOBB ETU) Prof. Natalie Meyers (University of Notre Dame) Alexandra Delipalta (RDA Association AISBL (RDA Europe))  
19:00 --- Conference Dinner ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Beyond Compliance: Measuring and Maximizing Open Science Impact (until 15:30) (82/1-001 - Science Gateway Education Lab A)
14:00 Making Impact Visible: Storytelling with Open Science Impact Indicators - Tereza Szybisty (OpenAIRE AMKE) Ioanna Grypari  
14:00
Building the Digital Backbone: Open Science Infrastructures - Pedro Príncipe (until 15:30) (81/R-003C - Science Gateway Auditorium C)
14:00 CANCELLED: Open Science Infrastructures: The Case of Austrian RDM Policies - Celine Wawruschka  
14:30 From Competition to Collaboration: A National Model for Sustainable and Interoperable Research Data Repositories - Jakub Szprot (University of Warsaw) Agnieszka Cybulska-Phelan (University of Warsaw)  
15:00 OSTrails: Connecting Tools and Communities for a Federated Open Science Ecosystem - Ms Elli Papadopoulou (Athena Research Center)  
14:00
Rethinking Research Assessment (until 15:30)
14:00 Ethics first: rethinking research assessment in the age of AI and open science - GITANJALI YADAV (National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi) Prof. Mara de Sousa Freitas (Director of the Institute of Bioethics of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (IB-UCP)) Mr Francis P. Crawley (CoARA Ethics and Research Integrity Policy Working Group on Responsible Research Assessment in Data and Artificial Intelligence (CoARA-ERIP)) Prof. Perihan Elif Ekmekci (Associate Professor, Deputy Dean, and Head of the History of Medicine and Ethics Department, School of Medicine, TOBB ETU)  
14:00
Open, but at What Cost? Research Security & Open Science (until 15:30) (81/R-003A - Science Gateway Auditorium A)
14:00 Open & Trusted: Governing Knowledge in the Digital Age - Ms Suzanne Dumouchel (OPERAS) Mr Niels Stern (OAPEN) Natalia Manola (OpenAIRE) Pierre Mounier (OPERAS)  
14:00
Open Science for All: Skills & Community (until 15:30) (82/1-001 - Science Gateway Education Lab B)
14:00 Fostering Belonging in Data Sciences and beyond - Lisanna Paladin (European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)) Isabela Paredes Cisneros (European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)) Dr Jacobo Miranda (EMBL Heidelberg)  
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
15:30
Demo Sessions (until 16:15)
15:30 Advancing FAIR Principles for Research Software: Implementing a Machine Actionable Software Management Plan into DMP OPIDoR - Marie-Christine JACQUEMOT-PERBAL Maria Grazia Santangelo (INRIA)  
15:30 Enhancing FAIR and curation workflows with InvenioRDM - Nicola Tarocco (CERN)  
15:30 RDA Knowledge Base – one shop stop for all RDA outputs and resources - Wim Hugo (DANS-KNAW)  
15:30 Talk Data to Me: Conversational AI for FAIR and Accessible Biomedical Data Discovery - Susheel Varma (Sage Bionetworks)  
16:15
Conference Closing (until 17:00)
16:15 Closing Thoughts on the Collective Intelligence of the 2025 Open Science FAIR - Dr Christopher S. Marcum  
17:00
Conference Closing - Kamran Naim (CERN) Inge Van Nieuwerburgh (University Library Ghent) (until 17:30)
17:00 Conference Closing - Kamran Naim (CERN) Inge Van Nieuwerburgh (University Library Ghent)  
17:30
Organisational Remarks (until 17:45)
18:00 --- CERN Guided Tours for late departures ---