Open Science Fair 2025

15 Sept 2025, 10:00 → 17 Sept 2025, 20:30 Europe/Zurich

81/R-003A - Science Gateway Auditorium A (CERN)

Fusing Forces – Accelerating Open Science through Collaboration

In an era where global challenges demand collective intelligence, Open Science Fair 2025 will spotlight the power of global, international and cross-regional partnerships in shaping the future of Open Science. True progress requires collaboration that transcends borders, disciplines, and institutions—uniting diverse perspectives to drive meaningful change.

This year’s OSFair will explore how diverse forms of collaboration can accelerate discovery, enhance knowledge accessibility, and create a more transparent and equitable research ecosystem. By fostering open and inclusive cooperation across continents, we can build a stronger, more connected scientific community. 

Join us from September 15 to 17 at CERN in Geneva as we come together to co-create the future of Open Science! Whether you're an advocate, practitioner, or newcomer, OSFair 2025 is your platform to connect and contribute. 

Monday 15 September

10:30 → 12:30 CERN Guided Tours for early arrivals

Guided Tours to the Synchrocyclotron, the ATLAS Visitor Center, the Antimatter Factory and the CERN Data Center.

12:00 → 14:00 Registration

12:00 → 14:00 Welcome Lunch

Lunches are served as standing lunches in the upper and lower floor of the Globe of Science and Innovation

14:00 → 14:15 Conference Opening: Introductory Remarks

Conveners: Inge Van Nieuwerburgh (University Library Ghent), Kamran Naim (CERN)

14:15 → 15:00 Conference Opening: Opening Keynote

15:00 → 16:00 Invited Panel: Policies and Politics

15:00 Policies and Politics

Speakers: Bregt Saenen, Dejan Dvorsek, Dina Petranovic (Technical University of Denmark), Felix Reda (Github), Prof. Yusuf Baran (Izmir institute of Technology)

16:00 → 16:45 Coffee Break

Coffee Breaks are served in the lower and upper floor of the Globe of Science and Innovation.

16:45 → 17:45 Invited Panel: Open Research Europe

16:45 Open Research Europe

Speakers: Mr Alex Kohls (CERN), Katharina Rieck (Austrian Science Fund FWF), Pierre Mounier (OPERAS), Victoria Tsoukala (European Commission)

17:45 → 18:30 Organisational Remarks: Organisation of Poster Sessions and Pitches

18:30 → 21:00 Welcome Reception

The reception is served in the lower and upper floor of the Globe of Science and Innovation

18:30 → 20:00 Poster & Demos Sessions: Session 1

Tuesday 16 September

09:00 → 10:00 Invited Panel: Impact and Monitoring of Open Science

09:00 Impact and Monitoring

Speakers: Dr Ana Persic (UNESCO), Dr Kristi Holmes (Northwestern University), Roberto di Cosmo (Software Heritage Foundation), Susan Reilly (Maynooth University), Zoé Ancion (Agence Nationale de la Recherche)

10:00 → 10:15 Conference picture

Before heading to the coffee break, we will gather on the plaza to take the official conference picture.

10:15 → 11:00 Coffee Break

Coffee Breaks are served in the lower and upper floor of the Globe of Science and Innovation.

11:00 → 12:30 Beyond Compliance: Measuring and Maximizing Open Science Impact: Individual Presentations

11:00 Global Collaboration Driving Open Science Impact: Insights from the RDA TIGER Landscape Analysis

The RDA TIGER project has played a pivotal role in supporting Research Data Alliance (RDA) Working Groups (WGs) that align, harmonise and standardise Open Science developments and technologies globally. While the RDA is a global platform, one of RDA TIGER’s key selection criteria for supporting WGs and projects is their potential impact on solving European data challenges and promoting data sharing and Open Science, in alignment with the EOSC Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA). The RDA TIGER project supports 23 WGs and has funded 9 projects, each with a tangible impact on the EOSC ecosystem and related challenges.  To articulate the value and impact of the RDA TIGER project on the European landscape and EOSC ecosystem, in early 2025, the project team embarked on a large-scale landscape analysis to map the impact of RDA WGs to EOSC. This presentation features an in-depth analysis and lessons learnt from this endeavour.  

Specifically, we will: 

Introduce the landscape report as a tool and resource for European data professionals, EOSC users, researchers, and policymakers enabling them to navigate the wealth of RDA outputs that address key challenges in the region.
Present preliminary results and lessons arising from the mapping of the RDA WGs and their direct contributions to the SRIA priorities and challenges.
Highlight forward-looking recommendations coming out of the report.

By illustrating the tangible outcomes of RDA TIGER’s support, this presentation provides key insights into how collaborative, international research data initiatives can drive meaningful change in Europe and beyond.

11:30 A cost benefit analysis framework for Open Science

Understanding the impacts of Open Science (OS) and the extent to which they materialise requires a solid methodological framework, which is not yet fully established. The Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) framework for OS - developed (part of the PathOS project) - aims to provide a systematic and comprehensive approach to quantifying the impacts of OS. This framework goes beyond simply evaluating benefits; it incorporates associated costs and enables meaningful comparisons with scenarios in which OS is not implemented.

This presentation will illustrate key elements of this framework, focusing on the types of costs (e.g.,set-up and maintenance costs) and benefits (e.g.,costs saved) specifically related to open science, and details the methodology to quantify these elements within the context of a CBA. Real-world applications of this framework will be used to offer practical insights into its utility and effectiveness. In particular, the presentation will draw on the use of the CBA to assess the value of:

UniProt, a widely used and freely accessible open database for protein sequence and functional information.

RCAAP, a network of open institutional repositories involving multiple Portuguese research institutions.

This presentation will show how the CBA framework can support policy and funding decisions and demonstrate the value of OS practices in research infrastructures. It will also shed light on the challenges that may arise when applying this framework and offer recommendations for potential mitigation strategies and actions. These insights are intended to enhance the utility of the framework as a valuable tool for the future evaluation of OS resources.

Speakers: Gelsomina (Jessica) Catalano, Antonia Correia

12:00 Assessing Open Science Policy Landscapes in the EU: A Socio-Epistemological Evaluation

This presentation delivers a critical policy assessment of national Open Science (OS) strategies and policies across selected EU Member States, examining their alignment with, and divergence from, supranational frameworks, particularly EOSC and broader EU digital agendas. Drawing on socio-epistemological theory and a critical analysis of policy and infrastructural dependencies within the EU, it explores how national approaches negotiate the balance between epistemic autonomy, institutional capacity, and compliance with common standards.
The assessment applies an evaluation framework, encompassing: the existence of national OS instruments (strategy, action plan, monitoring), thematic coverage (open access, open data, education, etc.), stakeholder engagement, legal enforceability, implementation mechanisms, degree of EOSC/EU alignment, incorporation of research assessment reform, evidence-informed policy development, and reliance on national strategic frameworks and development priorities. Countries are evaluated qualitatively, based on policy documents and data sourced from the EOSC Observatory and official national portals. The assessment framework also considers the SMART criteria.
Croatia is presented as an in-depth case study of a still-emerging policy ecosystem. The analysis includes the 2023 Draft National OS Plan. Complementing this, the presentation introduces original survey results on OS awareness and perceptions among Croatian researchers and students covering all major OS components conducted throughout 2024 and 2025 with the aim of producing a white paper to inform future policymaking.

11:00 → 12:30 Building the Digital Backbone: Open Science Infrastructures: Individual Presentations

11:00 Enriching Scientific Knowledge Graphs with Geospatial Metadata: Toward Mapping the Energy Research Landscape in Europe

Scientific Knowledge Graphs (SKGs) currently lack systematic approaches for handling geographic data, a particularly relevant limitation in energy planning, where spatial context is crucial for informed decision-making. The SciLake project (Horizon No. 101058573) aims to enhance knowledge discovery by improving the SKG’s infrastructure and services for accessing, integrating, and reusing research data across various disciplines. During the development of the Energy pilot, we created and tested a workflow to systematically detect mentions of geographical entities in scientific texts, analysed their contextual relevance (e.g., study site, case study location, broader regional focus), and mapped these associations on a European scale.
We enriched existing scientific metadata with structured geospatial information using natural language recognition enhanced by AI. We showcase that we can extract geographic mentions of case studies and institutions from open-source research.
The resulting enriched knowledge graph enables researchers, policymakers, and funders to explore research activity through a geographical lens, supporting new forms of discovery, collaboration, and policy analysis. Our work closes the gap between research and practice by providing interactive maps, which are more accessible to broader audiences than API or other current interfaces.
We utilise regional energy planning to demonstrate our approach, which includes addressing challenges related to multiple entity disambiguation. We will discuss how this enrichment pipeline could be integrated into other European Open Science infrastructures. Additionally, we will reflect on broader implications, such as areas lacking research studies, enhancing research discoverability through contextual metadata, and the potential for building more navigable, interoperable, and inclusive open science ecosystems.

11:30 The dark corners of open science

Open Science infrastructures have significantly advanced global knowledge sharing, enabling wider access, collaboration, and transparency in research. However, alongside these achievements, we face substantial challenges from spam and malicious activities that threaten the integrity of scholarly communications and pollute the scholarly graph. These challenges include the exponential growth of AI-generated content that blurs the line between legitimate research and sophisticated fabrication, rampant plagiarism facilitated by easily accessible digital content, and predatory journals that exploit the openness of publication channels for commercial gain.

Further, covert and aggressive data harvesting practices threaten to take down repositories, while the dual-use nature of open platforms can inadvertently facilitate unethical uses of openly shared research. Addressing these challenges demands rigorous governance, novel technical implementations such as advanced machine-learning classifiers to detect spam, and coordinated community-driven moderation policies.

In this session, we explore practical experiences and innovative solutions from managing Zenodo, a large-scale open science infrastructures, focusing on balancing openness with robust security measures. We discuss emerging practices to mitigate risks, enhance metadata quality, and uphold the credibility and fairness of open science systems. The presentation aims to engage the community in a critical discussion about proactive strategies and collaborative approaches to safeguard open science from exploitation.

12:00 On the importance of computational reproducibility in fostering Open and FAIR Science

In this talk we propose to survey the computational reproducibility practices, opportunities and challenges in view of fostering Open and FAIR Science in research communities.

We discuss several thinking models regarding computational reproducibility, focusing on the broader knowledge preservation and reuse aspects rather than on the raw computing evolution aspects.

Building upon several use cases from experimental particle physics and related scientific disciplines, we discuss the variety of sociological and technological challenges inherent in making the research innately reproducible and reusable.

From the researcher point of view, we argue how "preproducibility" should come early in the scientific process in order to ensure its future reusability.

From the data infrastructure point of view, we argue how the data repository services benefit from accompanying "analysis engines" to ensure the correctness of data curation procedures of the validity of data usage recipes.

The ultimate goal of the Open Science and Data Preservation efforts is to facilitate future reuse and reinterpretation of scientific data by new generation of researchers. A strong focus on the computational reproducibility of original data analyses provides a way to facilitate the reuse and reinterpretation of Open and FAIR data even many years after the original publication.

This talk is heavily inspired, but not limited to, the experiences and lessons learnt from the past ten years of running the CERN Open Data portal and the REANA reproducible analysis platform for the particle physics community.

11:00 → 12:30 Building the Digital Backbone: Open Science Infrastructures: Workshop

11:00 Fostering Global Collaboration in Open Science Infrastructure Sharing

This side event focuses on advancing global collaboration on open science infrastructure sharing. It will bring together 20 invited experts for in-depth discussions on interoperability, sustainability, and governance of open science infrastructures, with particular emphasis on practical needs of countries in the Global South. Jointly organized by National Science Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences(NSLC) and OpenAIRE, the event aligns with the OS FAIR 2025 theme “Fusing Forces –Accelerating Open Science through Collaboration”, and echoes UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science and the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development (2024–2033).
The workshop is designed for policymakers, infrastructure developers, funders, and leaders in the open science community, aiming to build an inclusive, sustainable, and collaborative global framework. It will highlight China’s recent efforts in open science infrastructure and invite international insights to define shared priorities and actionable pathways.
Participants will engage in in-depth discussions on key topics such as collaborative implementation pathways, cooperation standards, and organizational mechanisms. The 120-minute side event will include keynote presentations, expert introductions, and discussions on key issues.

Type: Collaborative Workshop/Side Meeting

Target Audience：
Approximately 20 invited experts from NSLC, OpenAIRE, CERN, UNESCO, and Global South platforms.

Invited Speakers
Keynote Speakers:
National Science Library(CAS)
OpenAIRE
Panelists:
Invited experts and contributing participants

Preliminary Agenda:
1.Opening and background introduction
2.Keynote presentations (15 minutes each): NSLC, OpenAIRE
3.Participant introductions (5 minutes each)
4.Discussion on Key Issues: Sharing Pathways, Collaboration Standards, and Alliance Charter
5.Wrap-up and next steps

Equipment Required:
Projector, microphones, internet access, and flexible seating suitable for group discussions.

11:00 → 12:30 Open Science for All: Skills & Community: Panel

11:00 Building Bridges: Cultivating Open Science Communities Within Research Institutions

While many institutions have embraced open science through policies and training initiatives, creating enduring communities that sustain open practices remains a significant challenge. This panel explores strategies for developing resilient, researcher-led open science communities that persist despite institutional turnover, shifting priorities, and the project-based nature of academia.
The discussion will primarily examine how institutions can move beyond episodic interventions toward sustainable community structures that embed open science into institutional culture. Panelists will share insights on establishing people-centered governance models that prioritize inclusivity and shared ownership, developing community champions networks, and creating formal and informal mentorship pathways. Special attention will be given to the professionalization and recognition of roles that embed community-building approaches within the research ecosystem, as these formalized positions can significantly enhance the resilience of open science communities and ensure technologies and practices genuinely serve researcher needs. Additionally, panelists will explore strategies for integrating open science practices into existing departmental workflows to create lasting cultural change.
Through this exchange, we hope to develop a shared understanding of effective pathways toward cultivating open science communities that accelerate discovery through collaboration.

Speakers: Lisanna Paladin (European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)), Malvika Sharan, Dr Merten Dahlkemper (CERN), Nokuthula Mchunu

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

Lunches are served as standing lunches in the upper and lower floor of the Globe of Science and Innovation

12:30 → 14:00 Poster & Demos Sessions: Session 2

14:00 → 15:30 Beyond Compliance: Measuring and Maximizing Open Science Impact: Individual Presentations

14:00 The Role of Stakeholder Engagement in Citizen Science Policy Development in Finland

The presentation explores open science policy development in Finland in the context of stakeholder engagement and the creation of the first national policy recommendation for citizen science with focus on measuring impact and community engagement.

The presentation is based on two 2025 studies. First study is established on the shift of responsibility for coordinating open science in Finland from the Ministry of Education and Culture to the Finnish research community, specifically the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies (TSV). We examined documents from the TSV citizen science working group, including meeting notes, survey results, and the final policy paper, to understand how stakeholder participation influenced the policy-making process.

The second study examines the impact that the recommendation had on the stakeholders. We examined survey results, and the performance of citizen science indicators based on the recommendation from the national open science and research monitoring results from 2024 to explore the impact of the recommendation.

The results show that involving stakeholders helped shape policy recommendations, especially in improving institutional support, guidelines, and funding visibility for citizen science. However, challenges like uneven awareness and engagement among stakeholders could limit the effectiveness of participatory approaches. By placing these findings within the context of participatory policymaking and stakeholder theory, the presentation provides insights into how inclusive policy design works and how participatory governance and science policy development can be integrated into institutional frameworks to drive change.

14:30 Toward the Global Integration and Public Utility of Open Science: A Publication Facts Label

The emergence of a digitally enabled Open Science has coincided with the vast growth of high education in the Global South, leading to a vast expansion of research and publishing activity, as attested to, for example, by the 55,000 journals (almost entirely open, without fees for readers or authors) using the journal publishing platform Open Journal Systems (OJS) launched in 2002. The rate and scale of this expansion of research may well lead to a great many missed opportunities in utilizing relevant research findings, vital to the advancement of science, whether through shortfalls in indexing or mistrust of unfamiliar sources. On the principle that we not only to open science but must find ways of supporting researcher and public use of this open science activity, I present an experiment in developing a credible standardized label for each research publication that precisely summarizes its adherence to scholarly publishing standards in ways designed to inform readers about those standards. The resulting “Publication Facts Label,” lists eleven data points, from number of reviewers to days to publication, all securely drawn from the journal publishing platform. Intended for industry-wide use, it is currently being tested with journals using OJS, with this presentation reviewing the label’s design for researchers and public, its integrity and trust features, the implementation plan, as well, as its review by Nature readers, open access publishers, school students, and others, while offering attendees ways of seeing the label in action and, if so inclined, supporting its adoption.

15:00 Paradiplomacy: An alternative to strengthen Open Science.

International Relations are established for various purposes; however, the nature of this Open Science Fair 2025 “Fusing Forces – Accelerating Open Science through Collaboration” invites us to address the relationships that exist around Cooperation, specifically new trends.
To this end, we will review briefly what has characterized these ties for years, and then we will suggest an alternative in detail, illustrated with a successful example that is currently in operation.
Traditionally, International Relations are defined as diplomacy, understood as the relationship established by nations or nation-states as a whole, such as a federal or central government, whether bilateral, one-on-one, or multilateral, between more than two countries. However, starting in the 1980s, a series of non-traditional manifestations of what has come to be known as paradiplomacy began to emerge. New actors with common expectations belonging to different systems and degree of decentralization have been working cooperatively without the intervention of central governments. Our example involves two different organizations: a Mexican research center and OpenAIRE, as subnational and supranational actors respectively.

A comparative table will show how the most representative features of paradiplomacy and its application in the creation of North American Studies (NAS). NAS is an ongoing collaborative project that transcends borders and contributes to strengthening one of the Open Science infrastructures, within the framework of the Open Science UNESCO recommendation and the FAIR principles. Scientific paradiplomacy is imperative in times of uncertainty and paradigm shift in international relations.

14:00 → 15:30 Building the Digital Backbone: Open Science Infrastructures: Panel

14:00 From partnership to ecosystem: building/evolving open collaboration

This panel brings together diverse stakeholders from commercial entities and open initiatives to engage in a candid, interactive conversation about building transparent, respectful, and mutually beneficial partnerships. It will address the critical challenge of sustaining open infrastructure in a difficult funding landscape, where over-reliance on single stakeholders threatens vital systems. There is an urgent need to step outside the boxes of the past and embrace innovative approaches. Progress has been hindered because collaboration requires balancing competing priorities: private stakeholders often hesitate to engage due to concerns about control, profit timelines, or misaligned incentives, while open advocates fear that commercial involvement could undermine transparency and accessibility. This panel will start the crucial conversation to diagnose these systemic barriers and analyse why previous initiatives fell short. It will place a significant focus on the dynamics of private-public partnerships, recognising their potential to drive innovation and secure diverse funding streams for open infrastructure. By reframing the narrative from 'open versus commercial' to 'open and commercial', the panel explores practical opportunities for collaboration that uphold openness principles while leveraging industry partnerships. It aims to showcase difficult conversations, as well as how equitable, transparent partnerships and diversified funding can support infrastructure investment, development, and resilience. The discussion will cover building sustainable models, creating trusted spaces for partnerships, and real-world examples. It brings together diverse stakeholders from open initiatives, commercial entities, foundations, and research institutions. This session aligns with the track's objective by demonstrating how collaboration can build and sustain the digital backbone of open science.

14:00 → 15:30 Building the Digital Backbone: Open Science Infrastructures: Workshop

14:00 Introducing OpenREL: Rights Expression Languages for Open Science and International Data Spaces – A Practitioners’ Approach

As Open Science infrastructures evolve, it is increasingly evident that traditional open license structures no longer meet the complex needs of Research Performing and Funding Organizations (RPOs/RFOs). Today’s research ecosystems require more nuanced and layered approaches to data access, sharing, and reuse—particularly within international data spaces, discipline-specific workflows, and AI-driven environments. Researchers and infrastructure providers now need clear, machine-actionable mechanisms to express complex rights, regulatory restrictions (such as GDPR), intellectual property allocations, terms of use, and licensing conditions.
To meet these challenges, the EOSC Beyond project has developed OpenREL, a new Rights Expression Language (REL) vocabulary and toolkit tailored for Open Science. Building on standards like ODRL and CCREL, OpenREL introduces advanced features for representing conditional access, role-based reuse, dual licensing, and the articulation of both legal and ethical rights and obligations. OpenREL supports EOSC’s mission to enable FAIR, secure, and trusted data reuse across diverse access models.
This 90-minute hands-on workshop will begin with an introduction to OpenREL’s structure and logic, followed by collaborative group work. Participants will engage with real-world scenarios involving datasets, services, and research software. In small teams, they will use simplified OpenREL templates to address key questions: What are the conditions for reuse? How can ownership be traced? Who holds which rights and responsibilities? How can these be represented in a machine-readable way?
The session aims to open community dialogue on rights governance in Open Science and collect feedback to shape this vocabulary and toolkit.

14:00 → 17:45 Rethinking Research Assessment: Workshop

14:00 Collaborative Pathways to Responsible Research Assessment via Open Infrastructures

Reforming research assessment has shifted from asking why to focusing on how. The proposed collaborative workshop addresses that challenge, specifically, how to turn CoARA policy principles into practice using infrastructures that are open, ethical, inclusive, and sustainable, by introducing and testing the Open Infrastructure Checklist, developed by the CoARA Working Group on Open Infrastructures for Responsible Research Assessment (OI4RRA). The checklist provides actionable guidance across four key dimensions: technical strength, operational excellence, community-led governance, sustainability, ethical and accountable practices.
The workshop aims to empower institutions and infrastructure providers to operationalize responsible research assessment (RRA) using a practical, principle-based checklist, while exploring how existing tools can support this transition. Participants will apply the checklist to three real-world infrastructures: OpenAIRE’s Researcher Profile, a service for showcasing diverse research contributions, beyond traditional-publications model; the GraspOS catalogue of open data, tools, services, and templates for Open-Science-aware RRA, which utilises a metadata schema that complies with a draft specification developed by OI4RRA WG; and testing the ability to gather information from the checklist for Infra Finder from IOI, a catalogue of informational entries about open infrastructure tools and services, and provide feedback.
Working in small groups, participants will evaluate each of these infrastructures against the checklist in a participatory format, test the tool’s usability and adaptability, identify gaps, strengths, and opportunities. This hands-on format encourages collaboration and critical reflection. Expected outcomes include a community-refined checklist, practical insights into infrastructure readiness, and a collaborative roadmap for broader institutional adoption and cross-organizational alignment in support of RRA.

14:00 → 15:30 Open Science for All: Skills & Community: Individual Presentations

14:00 Accelerating the Pipeline: Building Equitable Global Research Pathways in Secondary Education

What if the pipeline for transparent, collaborative research began before university? This presentation shares a bold and scalable model for fostering open science practices in secondary school, empowering students to contribute meaningfully to research while reimagining how we train the next generation of scientists and engineers - with equity at the focal point.

Since 1998, Hathaway Brown School’s STEM research fellowship has connected over 800 high school girls with scientists from NASA, Cleveland Clinic, and universities across Northeast Ohio with authentic, multi-year research projects. Over 300 students have co-authored peer-reviewed papers before graduation, and a longitudinal study shows long-term impact on their confidence, persistence in STEM, and sense of belonging in scientific spaces (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258717).

But today’s research landscape faces increasing challenges - especially in the United States. Scientific innovation is threatened by political agendas that have already reduced support for pure academic research and disproportionately impacted women and other historically excluded and underrepresented groups in STEM fields.

This session explores how cross-sector, international partnerships can offer students new ways to engage in authentic research, free from these constraints, and will leverage the expertise of participants to imagine open science practices that authentically engage young people earlier on in their academic careers to foster a sense of inclusion.

14:30 Nudging Scientists into adopting Open Science Practices

While funding agencies typically require data management plans for project proposals, this does not guarantee the eventual availability of Open Research Data (ORD) that adheres to the FAIR principles. In reality, only a small fraction of funded projects fulfills these commitments, primarily because providing ORD demands additional effort. Often, this effort occurs only after the publication of research results. Large international collaborations, such as the CMS Collaboration at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, face similar challenges. There is concern that requiring the sharing of analysis code and ensuring the reproducibility of research products could delay publication. However, an increasing number of scientists within CMS are adopting Open Science (OS) practices as part of their daily work. In my presentation, I will illustrate how a small group of OS advocates has successfully made these practices appealing to the community, transforming bystanders into OS practitioners. I will also review the vital role of infrastructure providers — specifically CERN as the host laboratory — in facilitating these efforts. Additionally, I will link my argument to CERN's OS policy and the recently developed best practice recommendations for OS and data preservation in high-energy physics. Ultimately, I will propose how these policies and recommendations can be adapted to benefit OS in other laboratories and research disciplines.

15:00 Challenges and Opportunities of real FAIR-by-design: The experience of the Master in Data Management and Curation (MDMC)

Nowadays, data fuels discovery, innovation, and decision-making; therefore, the ability to manage and curate data responsibly is crucial.
The Master in Data Management and Curation (MDMC) is a pioneering educational program that embraces the “FAIR-by-design” paradigm, going beyond theory to train professionals in the practical implementation of FAIR principles across the entire research data lifecycle. Rather than retrofitting datasets to meet FAIR criteria, MDMC students learn to embed Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability from the earliest stages of data planning, within the wider context of Open Science.
This forward-thinking approach is made possible through a well-established collaboration between Area Science Park and SISSA and benefits from its dynamic research and innovation ecosystem. Designed for a new generation of data professionals, MDMC fosters a strategic understanding of the research process, combined with a unique mix of technical, ethical, and communication skills essential for real-world FAIR implementation.
The training structure consists of eight intensive weeks of in-person lectures and hands-on exercises, followed by a six-month internship in cutting-edge research laboratories or data-intensive institutions, during which students implement FAIR-by-design workflows and pipelines in real scientific contexts. This model offers a rare opportunity to work closely with researchers, develop tailored data strategies, and engage with the practical challenges of semantic interoperability, metadata standards, and sustainable infrastructure.
By shaping versatile and practice-oriented data professionals, MDMC contributes to building a new generation of researchers who can transform data from a research byproduct into a powerful strategic asset—crucial for both academic excellence and data-driven innovation.

15:30 → 16:15 Coffee Break

Coffee Breaks are served in the lower and upper floor of the Globe of Science and Innovation.

16:15 → 17:45 Beyond Compliance: Measuring and Maximizing Open Science Impact: Panel

16:15 Made to measure: how do we responsibly monitor and assess Open Science?

Over the past decade or more, Open Science (OS) has rapidly gained momentum, with thousands of policies and recommendations from national agencies, funding bodies, institutions, and journals intended to foster a paradigm shift toward openness. Despite this enthusiastic embrace of Open Science, the tools and frameworks necessary for knowing whether greater openness is being achieved have lagged behind. Better evidence is needed on the adoption and the effects of Open Science – to inform the development of support services, policies, incentives, and to identify unintended consequences . As a result, we face critical questions: How can we avoid overly narrow or reductive approaches to monitoring Open Science? What frameworks and tools can ensure equity, transparency, and meaningful insights and promote responsible use?
This panel brings together leading innovators and thinkers in OS monitoring. They will offer perspectives on emerging and established initiatives and discuss the opportunities and challenges of monitoring OS practices, processes, and outcomes at various levels—global, national, institutional, and case-specific.
We will hear from the Open Science Monitoring Initiative about their efforts to provide a common, global framework for monitoring Open Science. We will explore new research examining the impact of Open Science practices, via a collaboration between the French Open Science Monitor and PLOS. The UKRN will share insights from their pilot projects to develop Open Research Indicators for institutions.

The session will conclude with an engaging Q&A, inviting the audience to critically examine diverse approaches to OS monitoring, critically examining their strengths, limitations, and blind spots.

Speakers: Laetitia Bracco (Université de Lorraine), Dr Kirsty Merret (University of Bristol), Iain Hrynaszkiewicz (PLOS)

16:15 → 17:45 Building the Digital Backbone: Open Science Infrastructures: Panel

16:15 Repository Reminaged: The Impact Repo Project

There is a global consensus that open science will make research
more transparent and inclusive, accelerating the advancement of
knowledge. The vision of open science depends on a
robust network of well-functioning repositories that not only
collect, preserve, and provide access to millions of valuable
research outputs but also serve as critical institutional assets. In an
era where AI is reshaping research and knowledge discovery,
repositories play a key strategic role as curated collections of an
institution’s intellectual production, ensuring visibility, integrity,
and trustworthiness of research outputs.

In March 2025, LIBER, OpenAIRE, SPARC Europe, and COAR launched IMPACT-REPO, a joint plan to promote the vital position of open access repositories in Europe’s research landscape. The plan outlines four key dimensions in which repositories contribute—boosting research impact, fostering inclusiveness, building trust, and supporting innovation.

The Action Plan illustrates the key contributions of repositories in open science and presents four compelling narratives that articulate
the growing strategic value of repositories in Europe.

This panel session will present several case studies of repositories that are offering new and innovative services- such as Publish Review Curate, cost transparency, and artificial intelligence - and are driving innovation in the open science landscape.

16:15 → 17:45 Building the Digital Backbone: Open Science Infrastructures: Workshop

16:15 Making Research Information Open: Shared Challenges, Shared Solutions

The Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information, published in April 2024, promotes the openness of publication and research output metadata, as well as the openness of information about research funding. Openness of research information supports responsible research assessment, enables equitable and inclusive policy making, and helps advance more open approaches to monitoring and incentivizing open science practices.

With over 100 signatories globally, including universities and research organizations, funders, governments, and networks such as CERN, OpenAire, Coimbra Group, UKRN, EOSC-A, Liber and YERUN, the Barcelona Declaration reflects growing momentum. The Declaration has also been endorsed by organizations like CoARA, Coalition S, EUA, Science Europe, and HELIOS Open. Yet challenges remain in operationalizing its vision: from aligning infrastructures to addressing institutional readiness, research assessment and policy implications.

In this 90 minute collaborative session, participants will first identify and discuss implementation challenges using live polling tools. Then, through moderated group exchanges, attendees will co-develop actionable strategies for each challenge and explore how these connect to the international roadmap for open research information currently implemented by Barcelona Declaration working groups.

This session is designed for open science officers, policy makers, research managers, librarians, and infrastructure providers, whether their organizations have signed the Declaration or are considering it. Participants will leave with concrete ideas for local and collaborative action, and a clearer understanding of the opportunities and complexities of opening up research information. Outcomes will be captured in a report to share insights with both the Barcelona Declaration working groups and the broader community.

Speakers: Dr Ana Ranitovic (University of Groningen), Dr Joeri Both (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

16:15 → 17:45 Open Science for All: Skills & Community: Panel

16:15 Data for AI: From Readiness to Ethics

As Artificial Intelligence becomes increasingly integrated into the research lifecycle and transforms the research landscape, achieving AI readiness is a key priority. Ensuring high quality, accessible data and workforce preparedness are fundamental to enabling responsible AI-driven innovation. However, gaps remain in data readiness, standards, and AI-specific training.

Alongside initiatives addressing the question of data readiness for AI, efforts have been underway to support those in policy and governance to respond to AI developments. This panel will discuss the key findings and recommendations on AI readiness drawing from a series of workshops organised by the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and roundtable discussions held in coordination with RDA and Microsoft. It will highlight the series of publications from the AI and Data Visitation Working Group, an RDA TIGER-supported Group, which has provided detailed, implementable AI-related guidance on informed consent, ethical review, and a framework for an AI Bill of Rights.

The discussion will address these key topics and respective findings while providing insights into ongoing developments in the ethical, human rights, and regulatory contributions to AI governance in the European digital research environment, with particular reference to the European Commission’s ‘A European strategy for AI in science’ within its overall AI Continent Action Plan. The discussion will show how these contexts are related to cross-border and cross-regional developments in AI governance with inclusion of the recent ACHRP’s ‘Study on human and people’s rights and artificial intelligence, robotics, and other new and emerging technologies’.

Speakers: Alexandra Delipalta (RDA Association AISBL (RDA Europe)), Prof. Natalie Meyers (University of Notre Dame), Prof. Perihan Elif Ekmekci (TOBB ETU)

19:00 → 23:00 Conference Dinner

Wednesday 17 September

09:00 → 10:00 Invited Panel: Reforming Research Assessment

09:00 Reforming Research Assessment

Speakers: Dr Gitanjali Yadav (National Institute for Plant Genome Research), Hans de Jonge (Open Science NL), Natalia Manola

10:00 → 10:45 Coffee Break

Coffee Breaks are served in the lower and upper floor of the Globe of Science and Innovation.

10:45 → 12:15 Beyond Compliance: Measuring and Maximizing Open Science Impact: Workshop

10:45 Designing What Matters: Co-Creating Open Science Dashboards

Designing What Matters is a 90-minute co-creation workshop bringing together policy makers, research support professionals, researchers, bibliometricians, and librarians to rethink how we monitor the impact of Open Science and reward it within research assessment frameworks.
Building on the GraspOS Researcher Profile and Monitors, participants will break into small groups and receive a curated set of pre-selected indicators (on paper cards or lists). Each group will be tasked with designing an “Open Science dashboard” on a poster tailored to a specific stakeholder level — such as individual researchers, research-performing organisations, or funders.
The session begins with a short joint presentation introducing the indicator typologies developed in PathOS and explaining how these inspired the Researcher Profile in GraspOS. This shared foundation will set the stage for structured group work, guided by three core questions:
What are we trying to measure?

What kind of data would we need?

Who could collect or interpret it — and for what purpose?

Groups will visually design their dashboards and then reflect on how the selected indicators could be interpreted, used in decision-making, and communicated through compelling storytelling.
This hands-on, participatory session will surface diverse perspectives and generate concrete prototypes that can inform the development of meaningful indicators — contributing to broader efforts in Open Science monitoring, assessment reform, and impact evaluation.

10:45 → 12:15 Building the Digital Backbone: Open Science Infrastructures: Individual Presentations

10:45 Open Science Infrastructures: The Case of Austrian RDM Policies

The initiative of the European Research Area (ERA) aims at creating a unified research and innovation space across Europe. One of the key objectives of ERA is to promote open access to research results and data, thus encouraging transparency, reproducibility, and wider dissemination of knowledge. In order to achieve an alignment with this ERA objective (and others), the European Research Area National Action Plan (ERA-NAP) supports the individual EU member states to contribute to a European Open Science infrastructure.

In this way, national measures for an open science infrastructure are promoted, which ultimately aim to create an open science infrastructure within a European framework. Open Science policies are the means of choice for the creation of such a structure at national level – because only they guarantee the joint endeavour to bundle the interests and needs of all stakeholders.

In my presentation, I outline the goals and challenges of working on such a national Open Science policy using the example of research data management in the Austrian Higher Education Area, which a working group of the Austrian University Conference has addressed, in line with the ERA-NAP. How do different types of universities define research data? What restrictions regarding openness do they wish to reserve for themselves - and for what reasons? Up to what point can a framework policy form a common ground – and at what point should individual standards be applied?

11:15 From Competition to Collaboration: A National Model for Sustainable and Interoperable Research Data Repositories

This presentation explores a collaborative national network of research data repositories in Poland, where institutional, disciplinary, and generalist infrastructures coexist rather than compete. The model offers a practical example of how interoperability and central coordination can support researchers and institutions in selecting the most appropriate repository type—without duplicating efforts or fragmenting services.

Drawing on a growing ecosystem currently comprising four main repositories (including a generalist platform hosting over 50 institutional dataverses), the presentation demonstrates how this architecture helps address key challenges in the research data landscape:
- ensuring long-term sustainability (technical, operational, and financial),
- alleviating staffing shortages,
- and motivating researchers to share their data.

The model relies on shared infrastructure, harmonized metadata exchange, and cross-repository visibility, enabling researchers to deposit data in the repository best suited to their needs—while benefiting from aggregated institutional presence and increased discoverability.

By presenting this approach, we aim to share insights into a scalable, community-driven strategy that reduces overheads, strengthens national coordination, and enhances the openness of research data practices. By highlighting a collaborative infrastructure model, this presentation contributes to the broader conversation on how we can reimagine openness through shared responsibility, inclusive governance, and sustainable practices.

11:45 OSTrails: Connecting Tools and Communities for a Federated Open Science Ecosystem

The EU-funded OSTrails project is building a federated Open Science infrastructure by enabling researchers and institutions to discover, plan, track, and assess their work in transparent and interoperable ways. With 41 partners and 25 pilots—including cross-domain, national, and Horizon Europe testbeds—OSTrails is piloting the practical integration of over 80 interoperable tools and services. This diversity reflects the scale needed to support a truly federated Open Science ecosystem.

At the core of the project are two key enablers: a modular Interoperability Reference Architecture and a tool independent Plan-Track-Assess (PTA) framework. Together, these provide a shared foundation for aligning diverse research management services—from Data Management Planning platforms to Scientific Knowledge Graphs and FAIR assessment tools—across distributed infrastructures.

To ensure long-term impact, OSTrails has launched a comprehensive training and capacity-building programme, equipping research communities and service providers with the knowledge and tools to adopt and extend project outcomes. These efforts build on the co-designed pilots, which validate interoperability across varied institutional, disciplinary settings.

For researchers, OSTrails simplifies cross-institutional Research Data Management workflows and clarifies pathways to Open Science best practices. For service providers, it offers a practical model for aligning with EOSC while retaining domain-specific autonomy.

This presentation will showcase how OSTrails contributes to a federated EOSC ecosystem by delivering standards-driven solutions that prioritise interoperability and FAIRness as essential components of a sustainable and inclusive infrastructure, supporting both federation and the development of the Web of FAIR Data and Services.

10:45 → 12:15 Rethinking Research Assessment: Individual Presentations

10:45 Valuing what matters: Developing new approaches to research assessment

Advancing the quality and impact of science requires a fundamental reimagining of the practices and criteria used to evaluate researchers and their institutions. The Helmholtz Open Science Office supports the cultural shift toward Open Science within the Helmholtz Association, Germany's largest scientific organization. As a signatory of the Coalition on Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) and coordinator of the CoARA National Chapter Germany, the Helmholtz Open Science Office is involved in several activities that aim to reform research assessment.

This contribution describes key initiatives that are currently taking place within the Helmholtz Association. Together, they aim to broaden the recognition of diverse research activities and output formats as valuable scholarly contributions, in alignment with the principles of research integrity and responsible research evaluation. We present the development of a "Quality Indicator for Data and Software Products”, which is designed to capture quality of research outputs beyond traditional text publications and to promote their visibility. In addition, we present the implementation of an award for sustainable research software and the work of a new Helmholtz Task Group on Research Assessment, which provides a platform for the exchange and development of modern and quality-oriented research assessment practices.

Our contribution situates these activities within broader initiatives in Germany, such as the focus area "Digitality in Science" of the Alliance of German Science Organizations, and describes how they interact with international initiatives like CoARA and the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information.

11:15 Who Watches the Watchers? Rethinking Open Science Monitoring

As the open science movement gains momentum, we face a critical paradox: the very frameworks designed to promote transparency and accessibility risk perpetuating the same power imbalances they aim to dismantle. This talk explores the uncomfortable truth about how current monitoring approaches in open science often mirror colonial knowledge production patterns, with the Global North continuing to set standards and metrics for the entire scientific community.
I examine how well-intentioned monitoring frameworks can inadvertently reinforce existing hierarchies in knowledge production. While we generate volumes of "open" research about equity and inclusion, many of these efforts remain tethered to institutions that paradoxically contribute to global inequities. The talk challenges us to move beyond superficial metrics and performative inclusion, advocating instead for a decolonial approach that centres on epistemic justice and acknowledges historical power imbalances in knowledge production.
I propose shifting our focus from quantifying outputs to supporting authentic dialogue about research practices and their broader societal implications. This perspective invites us to critically examine who holds the power to define and measure "openness" in science, and how we might reimagine monitoring frameworks to truly serve the global scientific community.

11:45 Beyond journal metrics: Why it’s time to embrace more meaningful methods of research assessment

With the increasing popularity of preprints, there are ongoing discussions among the research community about the need to apply peer review to help readers navigate new findings. eLife adopted such an approach in 2023, when we launched our model for publishing. The outputs are Reviewed Preprints, which include the original preprint, public reviews and an eLife Assessment that conveys the significance of the findings and strength of evidence, allowing readers to judge the research based on its own merits rather than where it is published.

Due to our efforts to challenge the status quo in publishing, our indexing status in Web of Science changed last year, meaning eLife no longer receives an Impact Factor. This was followed by concerns that eLife papers would no longer count toward funding or career progression opportunities. We therefore spoke to funders and institutions globally to better understand their position, and reported that 95% of respondents still consider eLife papers when evaluating research contributions. Our conversations highlighted that there is less consideration for the Impact Factor than perceived by the research community, and signalled broad support for more open science practices – showing that it’s time to move away from journal metrics in favour of more transparent and meaningful methods of assessment.

In this session, we will talk more about eLife Assessments, our conversations with the community and why it’s time to embrace innovative approaches to research assessment that better serve science and scientists. We also invite further discussion and participation from the audience.

10:45 → 12:15 Open, but at What Cost? Research Security & Open Science: Panel

10:45 Strange bedfellows, indeed: How the impact of the current political moment could accelerate an open science future

The current US government attacks on science and international collaboration are shaking the foundations of the global scientific endeavor. The damage to both research itself and the essential underpinnings of good science – collaboration, integrity, openness – may be irreversible.

US government acts of censorship, intimidation and erasure – like the removal of critical websites, discontinuation of vital data collection, and proliferation of conspiracy theories and debunked research – would lead the casual observer to assume the administration was anti-science at its core, and open science, itself, would be anathema. However, open science advocates within the administration – including the current NIH Director, Jay Bhattacharya – are viewing openness in a different light. They argue open practices will keep the government and scientific community accountable, reducing group think and enabling greater freedom for inquiry.

So, where does this leave open science globally, given the reduction in US research funding and the EU/UK commitment to increasing support (and poaching) those researchers? Does the shift in emphasis by the current Administration still move us collectively toward a more open future that achieves similar goals, just under different motivations? How are funders, research institutions and researchers themselves thinking about the global scientific endeavor in this new world? Is the open science movement being co-opted? Join this panel of experts – researchers, practitioners, and open science advocates – for a robust debate on the strange bedfellows pushing for open science policies in this new world.

12:15 → 13:45 Lunch

Lunches are served as standing lunches in the upper and lower floor of the Globe of Science and Innovation

12:15 → 13:45 Poster & Demos Sessions: Session 3

13:45 → 15:15 Beyond Compliance: Measuring and Maximizing Open Science Impact: Workshop

13:45 Making Impact Visible: Storytelling with Open Science Impact Indicators

As Open Science moves from aspiration to policy, the demand for actionable indicators to monitor its impact is growing. Policy initiatives like Horizon Europe Interim Evaluation, ERA Dashboard, EOSC monitoring activities, and national monitoring efforts call for reliable, interoperable data to support evidence-based decisions. Meanwhile, global frameworks such as UNESCO’s Open Science Recommendation and the upcoming OSMI principles highlight the need to assess Open Science’s contribution to equity and societal benefit.

The Open Science Indicator Handbook, developed in the PathOS project, provides practical guidance for this complex task. It supports the community in identifying, refining, and operationalizing indicators that capture the effect of Open Science, not just outcomes, but the causal impact of open practices across scientific, societal and economic dimensions. This workshop is intended for Open Science practitioners, research managers, policy officers, funders, interested in monitoring, assessing, and advancing the impact of Open Science practices.

In this hands-on workshop, participants will engage in small group exercises centered on indicator storytelling. Each group will choose one indicator from the Handbook and build a narrative around it, guided by questions such as:

• How would this indicator change behavior if tracked and rewarded?
• What ripple effects could it create, positive or negative?
• How does it connect to real-world Open Science practices and values?

Through creative yet critical reflection, participants will gain a deeper understanding of how Open Science indicators can influence research behaviors and policy and will develop practical skills in interpreting and applying indicators through narrative-driven, real-world scenarios.

Speakers: Ioanna Grypari, Tereza Szybisty (OpenAIRE AMKE)

13:45 → 15:15 Building the Digital Backbone: Open Science Infrastructures: Panel

13:45 Harnessing AI in Open Science Infrastructures: Collaborative Pathways Forward

How can we collectively shape AI integration in open science infrastructure to benefit all research communities? Join us for a dynamic 90-minute session where we'll move beyond the AI hype to explore practical implementations, ethical considerations, and collaborative pathways forward. Through lightning talks showcasing real-world applications, hands-on knowledge mapping, and our innovative fishbowl discussion format, you'll engage with diverse perspectives from across the research ecosystem. Whether you're a repository manager wondering about automated metadata extraction, a funder considering how to support equitable AI development, or a citizen science advocate concerned about inclusivity—this session creates space for your voice. Come prepared to challenge assumptions, forge unexpected collaborations, and help chart the course for AI-enhanced infrastructures that truly serve open science values. No technical expertise required—just bring your experience and insights!

13:45 → 15:15 Rethinking Research Assessment: Panel

13:45 Ethics first: rethinking research assessment in the age of AI and open science

As artificial intelligence (AI) and open science reshape research practices and outputs, the need for ethical, reliable, and transparent research assessment has become urgent for academia and science. Traditional evaluation models focused on impact factors, citations, and rigid disciplinary boundaries are increasingly misaligned with open science, open innovation, and the evolving digital research landscape.
This panel, hosted by the CoARA Working Group on 'Ethics and Research Integrity Policy for Responsible Research Assessment in Data and Artificial Intelligence (CoARA-ERIP)', will explore how ethics-based frameworks for digital research contributions can guide the transformation of research assessment systems with the evolving ethics and regulatory frameworks for data and AI. The discussion will reflect on practical tools and policy solutions emerging from CoARA-ERIP’s workstreams, with particular attention to evaluating AI-generated content, assessing interdisciplinary contributions, and ensuring responsible qualitative and quantitative criterium that reflect integrity, equity, and societal relevance.
The panel brings together a transdisciplinary and diverse panel who have contributed to the development of ethics, integrity, and data governance through CoARA-ERIP and other European and global initiatives. They will share diverse institutional and international experiences, outline ethical risks and opportunities in digital research evaluation, and engage the audience in dialogue about implementing more just and reflective assessment systems. This session with short presentations and interactive audience participation will be especially relevant for institutions, funders, and open science stakeholders developing new evaluation frameworks that keep pace with digital technologies in science and education while addressing the needs of our evolving digital societies.

Speakers: Mr Francis P. Crawley (CoARA Ethics and Research Integrity Policy Working Group on Responsible Research Assessment in Data and Artificial Intelligence (CoARA-ERIP)), Prof. Mara de Sousa Freitas (Director of the Institute of Bioethics of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (IB-UCP)), Prof. Perihan Elif Ekmekci (Associate Professor, Deputy Dean, and Head of the History of Medicine and Ethics Department, School of Medicine, TOBB ETU)

13:45 → 15:15 Open, but at What Cost? Research Security & Open Science: Panel

13:45 Open & Trusted: Governing Knowledge in the Digital Age

This panel confronts the critical tension between openness and security in today’s Open Science landscape. As AI revolutionizes research, it also introduces significant risks like disinformation and trust erosion. Compounding this, geopolitical strains force a reassessment of knowledge sharing, further undermining scientific trust. We are caught in an "information paradox": unparalleled access to knowledge alongside a public debate degraded by misinformation, shaking faith in science and democratic institutions. At the heart of this lies a vulnerable "public knowledge infrastructure" spanning research, education, and media. While openness is vital for progress, it demands careful governance.

This session will explore proactive strategies and collaborative solutions. We will examine how infrastructures like OPERAS, OpenAIRE, and EOSC champion vetted, multilingual open research through transparency and initiatives such as the Information Quality Protocol (IQP). The discussion will focus on uniting diverse "knowledge workers," fostering citizen engagement, and rebuilding our knowledge infrastructure. Key themes include robust governance, quality standards, and collective action to safeguard reliable open knowledge, counter disinformation, and restore public trust. Ultimately, the panel will address how Open Science can securely foster an informed, resilient, and democratic society.

13:45 → 15:15 Open Science for All: Skills & Community: Workshop

13:45 Fostering Belonging in Data Sciences and beyond

For science to be truly open, people need access not only to resources but also to the confidence to use them — especially in data science, where technical tools are key to sharing data and code under FAIR principles. However, the tech space remains male-dominated, and many women and newcomers feel out of place. This lack of belonging can prevent people from engaging fully.

As staff at the Data Science Centre, we regularly encounter situations where inclusivity is a barrier. We believe research infrastructures like ours can drive change by actively welcoming diverse participation and designing thoughtful interventions. We can share our experience to that end with use cases and we’re eager to learn from the audience: what have you already tried, and which ideas do you consider useful?
We propose a world café format, where we divide participants into small groups and assign them to tables, each representing one of the following use cases:

• A Q&A chat about a computational topic
• A 2 days course on git
• A scientific workflow management system
• A meeting with mixed scientific knowledge
• A newsletter promoting standardisation of practices

The groups work on their use cases following discussion prompts and tasks. Groups will switch tables three times and pick up the work of other groups. This format ensures a collaborative atmosphere and nudges participants to discover new topics.
Together, we aim to identify strategies and best practices for fostering inclusiveness in the Data Sciences.

15:15 → 16:00 Coffee Break

Coffee Breaks are served in the lower and upper floor of the Globe of Science and Innovation.

16:00 → 16:45 Conference Closing: Closing Keynote

16:45 → 17:30 Conference Closing: Wrap up and goodbye

17:30 → 17:45 Organisational Remarks: Organisational remarks about guided tours

18:00 → 19:30 CERN Guided Tours for late departures