TU Wien Bibliothek invites you to the first Open Science Day at TU Wien — an event by and for researchers. Organized by TU Wien Bibliothek with the support of the Vice Rector for Digitalisation and Infrastructure, this event is your platform to share, learn, and connect – whether you publish open access, manage research data, work with open source code, or engage in citizen science.

When and where?

Date: Tuesday, 03 June 2025
Time: 08:45 – 17:00
Location: TU Wien Bibliothek, 5th floor, lecture room
Language: German, English

Why attend?

• Learn how Open Science is taking shape at TU Wien
• Discover good-practice examples from colleagues
• Explore services and tools to support your research
• Talk openly about challenges and needs
• Connect with peers in an informal setting

Register now

Questions? Contact us at sekretariat@tuwien.ac.at

We look forward to seeing you there!

Programme

08:45–09:00 | Welcome Coffee
09:00–09:15 | Opening by Library Director Beate Guba and Overview by Moderator Philipp Steger

09:15–10:30 | Session I: Participatory Research – Good Practices & Challenges

• “Citizen science and urban transformation” – Christian Peer (future.lab Research Center)
• “Citizen Science data supported forest monitoring: Potential, Challenges, and Limitations” – Markus Hollaus (Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation)
• “Soil Walks: How Numbers and Data can raise Awareness for Soil Protection” – Elias Grinzinger, Barbara Steinbrunner (Institute of Spatial Planning)

10:30–11:00 | Discussion
11:00–12:30 | Session II: Research Practices From Open Access to AI

• “Community led publishing: Opportunities, challenges and pitfalls using the example of Quantum” – Marcus Huber (Faculty of Physics)
• “Automated Reasoning” – Laura Kovacs (Faculty of Informatics)
• “Open Science in Industry Collaborations: Challenges in Recommender Systems and Behavioral Data Analysis” – Julia Neidhardt (Faculty of Informatics)

12:30–13:00 | Discussion
13:00–14:00 | Lunch & Networking
14:00–14:20 | Pitch Session: Services for Open Science @ TU Wien

• Citizen Science, Open Access Publishing, Journal Hosting, Recognising Predatory Publishing, PID-Services, Davis as an Open Infrastructure, Text- and Data Mining, TU Wien Academic Press, TU Wien Research Data Repository

14:30–15:30 | Session III: The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)

• Short introduction to the EOSC – Beate Guba (Library)
• “Data Quality Framework for EOSC” – Chris Schubert (Library)
• “Different shades of FAIR” – Tomasz Miksa (Center for Research Data Management)

15:30 | Closing Remarks
Afterwards | Informal networking with refreshments