Name: 6th CERN–UNESCO–NRF Open Science School, Pretoria, South Africa, 2025
Start: 2025-02-16T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-02-21T20:30:00+02:00
Location: Albert Luthuli Auditorium

6th CERN–UNESCO–NRF Open Science School, Pretoria, South Africa, 2025

from Sunday 16 February 2025 (08:00) to Friday 21 February 2025 (20:30)

Monday 10 February 2025
Tuesday 11 February 2025
Wednesday 12 February 2025
Thursday 13 February 2025
Friday 14 February 2025
Saturday 15 February 2025
Sunday 16 February 2025

12:00 Arrival of participants at the hotel
Arrival of participants at the hotel
12:00 - 18:00

Monday 17 February 2025

08:00 Registration
Registration
08:00 - 09:00
Room: National Research Foundation
09:00 Official welcome and launch
Official welcome and launch
09:00 - 12:00
Room: National Research Foundation
Contributions

09:00 Welcome from NRF - Gugu Moche (NRF)

09:20 Welcome from CERN - Jens Vigen (CERN)

09:40 Welcome from UNESCO - Tiffany Straza (UNESCO)

10:00 Welcome from CODATA - Daisy Selematsela (CODATA)

10:20 Keynote: Fueling the new agenda for African languages x AI: Everything, everywhere, all at once - Vukosi Marivate (University of Pretoria)

10:40 Group Photo

10:55 Presentation of participants

11:40 Launch of the training - Jens Vigen (CERN)
12:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 - 13:00
Room: National Research Foundation

13:00 Group 1—Identifying two action items to address in the next 18 months
Group 1—Identifying two action items to address in the next 18 months
13:00 - 15:00
Room: National Research Foundation

Group 2—Identifying two action items to address in the next 18 months)
Group 2—Identifying two action items to address in the next 18 months)
13:00 - 15:00
Room: National Research Foundation

Group 3—Identifying two action items to address in the next 18 months)
Group 3—Identifying two action items to address in the next 18 months)
13:00 - 15:00
Room: National Research Foundation

15:00 Tea break
Tea break
15:00 - 15:30
Room: National Research Foundation

15:30 Reporting back from the break-out groups
Reporting back from the break-out groups
15:30 - 16:30
Room: National Research Foundation

17:30 Welcome reception
Welcome reception
17:30 - 19:30
Room: The Regency Apartment Hotel | Menlyn
Tuesday 18 February 2025

09:00 Day 1
Day 1
09:00 - 09:30
Room: National Research Foundation
09:30 Research infrastructures
Research infrastructures
09:30 - 12:00
Room: National Research Foundation
Contributions

09:30 Zenodo - Lars Holm Nielsen (CERN)

10:10 Ubuntu Open Science Cloud - Harold Bowa (UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networks)

10:50 Redalyc - Arianna Becerril García (Redalyc)

11:30 Discussions
12:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 - 13:00
Room: National Research Foundation

13:00 AfricArXiv
AfricArXiv
13:00 - 16:30
Room: National Research Foundation

Zenodo
Zenodo
13:00 - 16:30
Room: National Research Foundation
Wednesday 19 February 2025

08:30 Day 2
Day 2
08:30 - 09:00
Room: National Research Foundation
09:00 Open Science policies
Open Science policies
09:00 - 11:00
Room: National Research Foundation
Contributions

09:00 UNESCO and open science - Tiffany Straza (UNESCO)

09:30 CERN open science policy - Kamran Naim (CERN)

10:00 SA Open Science Policy draft (and process) - Irvy (Igle) Gledhill (U. Witwatersrand, South Africa)

10:30 Discussion
11:00 Lunch-bag in the bus to Soweto
Lunch-bag in the bus to Soweto
11:00 - 12:00

12:00 Social outing to Soweto
Social outing to Soweto
12:00 - 17:00

17:00 South African braai
South African braai
17:00 - 19:00
Room: National Research Foundation
Thursday 20 February 2025

09:00 Day 3
Day 3
09:00 - 09:30
Room: National Research Foundation
09:30 Open Access
Open Access
09:30 - 12:00
Room: National Research Foundation
Contributions

09:30 Open Access policy and implementation at CERN - Anne Gentil-Beccot (CERN)

10:10 UNESCO study on predatory publishers - Tiffany Straza (UNESCO)

10:50 Spotting the wolves: Protecting your research (from predatory publishers) - Susan Veldsman (ASSAf)

11:30 DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals - Ina Smith (ASSAf)
12:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 - 13:00
Room: National Research Foundation
13:00 MIT framework for publisher contracts
MIT framework for publisher contracts
13:00 - 16:30
Room: National Research Foundation
Contributions

13:00 Slide presentation

16:00 Exercise
Friday 21 February 2025

09:00 Day 4
Day 4
09:00 - 09:30
Room: National Research Foundation

09:30 Breakout group (by country): take-away from the training and plan for the next 18 months
Breakout group (by country): take-away from the training and plan for the next 18 months
09:30 - 11:00
Room: National Research Foundation

11:00 Report from each group
Report from each group
11:00 - 12:00
Room: National Research Foundation

12:00 Closing and diplomas
Closing and diplomas
12:00 - 12:30
Room: National Research Foundation

12:30 Farewell lunch
Farewell lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: National Research Foundation

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