EOSC-A 12th General Assembly
2025-12-10 10:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Paris) | Online
Mark your calendars! The 12th General Assembly meeting of the EOSC Association will be held online on the afternoon of Wednesday, 10 December 2025. This meeting will include the election of three Directors to the EOSC-A Board of Directors.
More details and registration information coming soon. Stay tuned!

Commission seeks feedback on the future Charter of access for industrial users
2025-12-10
Brussels — The European Commission has opened a public survey to gather input from stakeholders on the upcoming Charter of Access for Industrial Users to Research and Technology Infrastructures.
Building on the revised Charter for Access to Research Infrastructures, the new Charter will focus specifically on improving access for companies. Its goal is to make it easier for businesses, particularly SMEs, startups, and scaleups, to benefit from Europe’s world-class research and technology infrastructures. The survey will close on 10 December 2025 and the final Charter is expected to be presented in 2026.
The Charter aims to improve access to infrastructures through six proposed principles:

Increased visibility and availability of services
Transparency and quality of services
Simplified contract and agreement procedures
Safe intellectual property management
Priority to companies in the EU
Cooperation between infrastructures and access to data

7. EOSC Coffee Lecture: “Aktuelles aus der EOSC-Föderation”
2025-12-02 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
Die European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) schafft einen integrativen, föderierten Raum für die gemeinsame Nutzung wissenschaftlicher Forschungsdaten in Europa. Sie stärkt die europäische Datensouveränität, indem sie gemeinsame Standards und sichere, transparente Rahmenbedingungen für den Austausch von Forschungsdaten etabliert. Mit dem weiteren Ausbau der EOSC-Föderation entstehen neue Möglichkeiten für Institutionen, sich zu beteiligen und entsprechende Förderangebote zu nutzen.
Um darüber zu informieren, lädt die ZBW – Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft Sie am Dienstag, den 2. Dezember 2025, von 15:00–16:00 Uhr zur siebten EOSC Coffee Lecture ein.
Diese Coffee Lecture stellt folgende Themen in den Mittelpunkt:

Bericht vom EOSC-Symposium 2025 in Brüssel
Update zum Stand der EOSC-Föderation
Fördermöglichkeiten zur Vorbereitung eines EOSC-Knotens
Fördermöglichkeiten zum Andocken von Ressourcen (Services/Repositorien)

Durch das einstündige, deutschsprachige Webinar (30 Min. Vortrag, 30 Min. Fragen/Diskussion) führt Sie Prof. Dr. Klaus Tochtermann, Präsident der EOSC Association, Mitglied im NFDI-Senat und in mehrere NFDI-Konsortien involviert.
Die EOSC Coffee Lectures richten sich an alle, die sich in ihrer wissenschaftlichen Arbeit mit Forschungsdaten beschäftigen oder an der Umsetzung und dem Betrieb von Forschungsdateninfrastrukturen beteiligt sind.
Weiterführende Informationen zu den Inhalten der 7. EOSC Coffee Lecture finden Sie außerdem hier: https://eosc.eu/news/welcome-to-the-eosc-federation-mou-establishes-shared-path-to-operations/

FAIR&AI: How research data and AI can empower each other
2025-11-27 | TU Graz, Graz, Austria
Der Cluster Forschungsdaten lädt herzlich ein zum FAIR&AI Symposium am 27. November 2025 an die TU Graz. Die Veranstaltung thematisiert die Schnittstellen zwischen Forschungsdatenmanagement (RDM) und Künstlicher Intelligenz (AI): Wie können FAIR-Prinzipien KI-Anwendungen unterstützen, und wie kann KI RDM-Prozesse beeinflussen?
Das Programm beinhaltet Keynotes von internationalen und nationalen Expert*innen, Lightning Talks und Breakout Sessions für interdisziplinären Austausch und Möglichkeiten zum Networking. Gemeinsam werden Infrastruktur-Herausforderungen diskutiert, Supportstrukturen präsentiert und die Synergien zwischen FAIRen Daten und künstlicher Intelligenz aufgezeigt.
Die Veranstaltung beginnt um 13 Uhr, davor findet die Registrierung und der Networking-Lunch statt.
Wir hoffen Ihr Interesse geweckt zu haben und Sie in Graz begrüßen zu dürfen – halten Sie sich den Termin frei. Die Anmeldung beginnt im Oktober 2025, weitere Informationen finden Sie hier.

5th EOSC Support Office Austria General Assembly
2025-11-18 13:30 - 18:00 | TUtheSky, Getreidemarkt 9, 1060 Wien, Gebäude BA, 11. OG, Vienna, 1060, Austria
We are pleased to announce that the 5th General Assembly of the EOSC Support Office Austria will take place on November 18, 2025, at TUtheSKY, TU Wien. This event brings together members of the EOSC SOA community to review achievements over the past year, elect new representatives to governing bodies, and discuss the strategic direction for the future.
It will be a key moment for advancing shared goals within the EOSC SOA community and fostering stronger collaboration across diverse areas, including Open Science, data stewardship, and research infrastructure. The General Assembly will provide an opportunity to report on developments and to strengthen the community’s impact in supporting Austria’s engagement within the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

Agenda

Time:

Item:

Presenter:

13:30-14:30

Lunch and Networking

14:30-14:45

Opening

Ilire Hasani-Mavriqi (1st Chair GA) & VR Wolfgang Kastner (TU Wien)

14:45-14:55

ACONET Association: Legal Entity & Strategy 2030

Petra Karlhuber
ACONET Association

14:55-15:10

Year in Review

Barbara Sánchez Solís
Chair of the EOSC SOA Management Board

15:10-15:25

Official Business: Elections

Group photo

15:25-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-17:45

Nodes Development in the EOSC Federation

EOSC Federation: current developments and next steps

EOSC Node in Poland

Update: Austrian developments towards an EOSC Node

Q&A

Bob Jones
EOSC Association

Stefan Hanslik
BMFWF

Aneta Pazik-Aybar
NCN Poland

Ilire Hasani-Mavriqi
1st Chair of the EOSC SOA General Assembly

17:45-18:00

Closing

Registration has closed.
If you still want to join the event, please contact contact@eosc-austria.at

Munin Conference on Scholary Publishing
2025-11-18 - 2025-11-20
This is the programme for the 19th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing 2024.
All presentations will take place in Auditoria 1 and 2 (see information about the conference venue). Registration, poster sessions and coffee breaks will take place in the hall outside of the auditoria. The workshop rooms are above the conference hall, accessible by lift or stairs.
Short abstracts for the parallel workshops can be seen on the Workshops-overview page. See also an overview of posters that will be displayed during poster lunches on 26 and 27 November.
For the digital audience: all presentation and panel sessions will be streamed. The streaming links for the sessions in Auditorium 1 are posted at the top of the programme for each day. For Auditorium 2, see the specific session. Munin is in the CET zone.

COMET-Zentren 2025: Exzellente themenoffene Forschung
2025-11-18 | Online
Exzellente Forschung an COMET-Zentren in Kooperation von Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft

In COMET-Zentren forschen Unternehmen gemeinsam mit Forschungseinrichtungen an einem mehrjährigen Forschungsprogramm.
COMET-Zentren betreiben exzellente, kooperative Forschung auf hohem internationalem Niveau und setzen neue Forschungsimpulse. Sie bauen entsprechende Kompetenzen und Humanressourcen auf und bieten Forscher:innen vielfältige Aus- und Weiterbildungsmöglichkeiten.
Erfolgreiche Zentren zeichnen sich durch die Dissemination von Forschungsergebnissen, sowohl in Form von innovativen Produkten, Prozessen und Dienstleistungen als auch durch eine hochrangige Publikationstätigkeit aus.
Internationalisierung als Qualitätsmerkmal exzellenter kooperativer Forschung zeigt sich insbesondere durch die Einbindung international renommierter Forscher:innen, Organisationen und Unternehmen sowie die Beteiligung an internationalen Projekten.
COMET Zentren tragen im Sinne der SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) zur Lösung gesellschaftlicher Herausforderungen bei und unterstützen die Transformation der österreichischen Wirtschaft bei ihrem nachhaltigen Wandel.

Austrian ERA SYMPOSIUM 2025
2025-11-17 10:00 - 19:00
The Austrian ERA Symposium 2025: “Towards Europe’s Fifth Freedom” will be held as a full-day, in-person event in Vienna on 17 November 2025.
This year’s symposium offers a unique opportunity to explore and shape the future of the European Research Area (ERA). We are honoured to welcome Commissioner for Start-ups, Research and Innovation Ekaterina Zaharieva, who will share first-hand insights into the evolving EU R&I landscape. We will furthermore discuss the path towards the ERA Act – an envisaged landmark initiative introducing legally binding measures to strengthen the ERA.
The symposium will also spotlight priorities of Austria’s next ERA Action Plan 2026–2028 with dedicated workshops.
Visit the ERA Symposium website for the full agenda and registration details. We kindly ask you to revisit this website which will be regularly updated with speaker information.

Opening Research Assessment
2025-11-12 - 2025-11-13 | Pisa
For research assessment to truly support Open Science, we must prioritise transparency, inclusivity, and fairness in how we recognise research activities and contributions. This means not only ensuring that all contributions to Open Science are valued but also promoting openness in the data, tools, services, and other resources used in the assessment process.
We invite you to our Conference on Opening Research Assessment, where we will present the results of the GraspOS project and engage in discussions on transforming research assessment into a system that is open, responsible and aligned with the principles of Open Science.

The GraspOS project supports the emerging policy reforms and paves the way for a responsible research assessment system that is fully aware of and integrated with Open Science practices. GraspOS focuses on developing, assessing, and operating an open federated infrastructure designed to aggregate open resources that can catalyse the implementation of relevant policy reforms.
The Conference will not only showcase the key outcomes and insights of the project, but will also feature invited talks and expert panels addressing critical topics for advancing a responsible research assessment system that fully embraces Open Science principles including:

Open infrastructures for responsible research assessment
Transparency and inclusivity of the assessment processes
Recognition of contributions to Open Science

We also invite poster contributions aligned with these themes by anyone interested. Guidelines on how to submit a contribution for the Poster Session are available below.

Open Science Week 2025
2025-11-10 - 2025-11-12
Open Science Week 2025, organised by the Open Science Working Group of the Association of Libraries of Czech Universities, is approaching!
We are preparing three days full of inspiration, experience sharing, and practical demonstrations focused on Open Science, research data management, open access, citizen science, and the legal aspects of open science. You can look forward to expert lectures, live discussions, and networking that will connect researchers, PhD students, librarians, project support staff, data stewards, and all other friends of open science – everyone will find something to their liking!
Follow us on social media for more information – the program details will be published soon.
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Registration will open soon.

Open Science in the light of geopolitical polarisation
2025-11-10 - 2025-11-11 | Berlin, Berlin, Germany
The current geopolitical landscape is characterised by rising political and trade tensions as well as heightened economic interest in scientific innovation. This polarisation has significant implications for the global scientific community, particularly in the pursuit of Open Science. Could the naivety of science be exploited? Where is the line between scientific idealism and naivety?
As major global powers engage in systemic rivalries, the conduct of science is increasingly influenced by national security concerns, export controls, and sanctions that can restrict the free flow of ideas, data, and researchers across borders. Meanwhile, global challenges such as pandemics, climate change, and technology-based development require international scientific collaboration and universal knowledge development. The normative nature of the scientific ethos is increasingly in tension with political forces that demand that science be both vigilant and competitive.
How can Open Science – with its emphasis on transparency, collaboration, efficiency and validity of scientific results – be sustained in the light of these competing interests?
During this year’s Open Science Days, we will explore these tensions by discussing the interrelations of Open Science, political interests, and innovation. We will ask how research organizations can reconcile Open Science policies with resilience and competitiveness.

About Open Science Days
The Open Science Days (OSD) are periodically organised by the Max Planck Digital Library.
In the context of this conferences we deal with various aspects of a global movement towards a more open, transparent and reproducible approach to science. Aside from invited expert talks, participants get the opportunity to present their own ideas, experiences, initiatives or activities in a Lightning Talk session. It is an open discussion platform around current Open Science developments.
The hybrid event is directed at researchers and specialists outside the Max Planck Society as well as within. It is for anyone, who is interested in an interdisciplinary communication about Open Science.

EOSC Symposium 2025
2025-11-03 - 2025-11-05 | Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Please mark your calendars for the EOSC Symposium 2025, the largest and most in-demand event on the EOSC calendar. Organised by the EOSC Association for the second consecutive year, the Symposium will take place 03-05 November in Brussels. Check back for details on venue and registration.
As an appetizer, please enjoy our compilation video from the 2024 Symposium in Berlin. The outcomes and resources from the 2024 Symposium can be found here: EOSC Symposium 2024: Outcomes

30th Nordic Workshop on Bibliometrics and Research Policy
2025-10-29 - 2025-10-31 | Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Over the course of three days, October 29-31, 2025, you will have the opportunity to engage with experts from a variety of fields, including bibliometrics, research policy and library & information science. The aim of the workshop is to integrate bibliometric research with research policy, showcase the latest bibliometric research from the Nordic region and beyond, and strengthen connections between bibliometric research groups and their PhD students.
Important dates
Submission of abstracts: March 17 – May 31, 2025.
Notifications of acceptance: June 20, 2025.
Registration: July 1 – September 15, 2025.
Nordic Workshop: October 29 – 31, 2025.
Organizing committee
Dag W. Aksnes, NIFU
Caroline S. Armitage, University of Bergen
Marta Eide, University of Bergen
Henrik Karlstrøm, NIFU
Eli Heldaas Seland, University of Bergen
Contact
Follow us on Bluesky: @nwb2025.bsky.social
Hashtag on social media: #nwb2025
NWB Steering group
Denmark: Birger Larsen, Aalborg University
Finland: Susanna Nykyri, Tampere University
Iceland: Baldvin Zarioh, University of Iceland
Norway: Dag W. Aksnes, NIFU – Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education
Sweden: Fredrik Åström, Lund University

Open Science Day 2025
2025-10-28 11:00 - 15:30 | University of Mannheim
The seventh annual Open Science Day will take place on 28 October 2025. This year, BERD@NFDI and the Open Science Office have co-organized the Open Science Day to showcase, share, and discuss the diverse range of open science activities and experiences taking place at the University of Mannheim and beyond.
We are delighted to announce that our keynote speaker this year is Vasilka Paunova, the legal counsel for BERD@NFDI, who will present Open and GDPR-Compliant Science – highlighting the legal challenges posed by Open Science and Research Data Management and potential solutions.
BERD@NFDI will address the role of Open Science and Research Data Management in business and economics research. We will cover incentives for doing Open Science and their impact on research in the social sciences, as well as shifting journal requirements for transparency in the political sciences. Our latest 2025 awardees will also present their funded projects and the Open Science practices they will use in their diverse research.
All members and researchers of the University of Mannheim and beyond are invited to join our Open Science Day.
We would be delighted if you are able to attend this event. If you are interested in attending, please sign up below:
Click here for online registration
Click here for in-person registration
Programm

Leibniz Open Science Day 2025: “Better Science for Better Policies”
2025-10-27 | Berlin, Berlin, Germany
ZBW ─ Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, DIW Berlin (the German Institute for Economic Research), WZB (Berlin Social Science Center), and RWI ─ Leibniz Institute for Economic Research are pleased to invite to the Leibniz Open Science Day 2025: Better Science for Better Policies.
With the growing importance of the social sciences in addressing societal challenges, the significance of a meta-scientific perspective is also increasingly on the rise. We need a deeper understanding of how evidence is generated and communicated to society and policymakers.
Replications and meta-studies in particular are becoming increasingly crucial to ensure the reliability and validity of scientific research findings. These approaches help identify heterogeneities and biases, improve methodological standards, and foster transparency, ultimately enhancing the credibility of scientific knowledge.

Call for Papers: FAIR Digital Objects Forum
2025-10-26 | Online
Call for Papers, Posters & Lightning Talks
FAIR Digital Objects (FDO) are autonomous information units that virtually bind all information in a machine-actionable way that is required to make data FAIR, including various kinds of metadata and globally unique and resolvable persistent identifiers (PIDs). FDOs provide a conceptual and implementation framework to develop scalable cross-disciplinary capabilities, deal with increasing data volumes and their inherent complexity, build tools that help increase trust in data, create mechanisms to efficiently operate in the domain of scientific assertions, and promote data interoperability. In addition, FDOs play a foundational role in implementing widely accepted trust frameworks, which are characterised by the STAP principles (Sovereignty, Transparency, Accountability, Persistence). These principles underpin large-scale data exploration supported by AI.
About the Conference
For the third time at this scale, the FDO2026 Conference (link) will bring together leading experts from science and industry, technologists, data stewards/managers, and policymakers engaged in advancing FAIR Digital Objects (FDOs). The conference will feature a mix of invited presentations, panels, posters and demonstrators. It will be associated with a day of tutorials and a newcomer session. The first conference focused on discussing and finalising basic specifications, while the second conference concentrated on practical implementations of the FDO concept (testbeds, demonstrators). This third conference will explore the relevance of the FDOs for turning to a global data landscape characterised by the STAP Principles, tackle the integration of FDOs with data use control technologies (dataspace technologies) and examine the challenges and showcase successful demonstrations of interoperability between different implementations. The conference will take place at the facilities of the Technische Universität Wien. Video interaction options and video recordings of all sessions and the training sessions will be provided.
Expected Contributions
For the conference the organisers are seeking contributions that (1) offer insights into practical developments and real-world functionality of FAIR Digital Objects (FDOs), or (2) outline strategic plans for their adoption, or (3) demonstrate how FDOs can interoperate and thus contribute to the advancement of global trust frameworks guided by the STAP principles. We invite the submission of extended abstracts consistent with the conference themes and objectives and address FDOs, in particular:

Use of the FDO concept for structuring the emerging domain of disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge in the research domain.
Importance of FDOs’ abstraction, binding and encapsulation properties for data-driven and cross-domain research.
Use of FDOs in data-driven projects or processes from the perspective of researchers and/or technologists using different approaches.
Reports on implementations of FDOs and associated components such as PIDs, PID/FDO Profiles, PID Kernel Attributes, Types, Type Registries, DOIP, FDO-compliant repositories, Signposting, etc.
Plans and use of FDOs to implement operations, workflows, secure environments and collections.
Applications of FDOs in research-based education or in specific skills development.
Showcases where FAIR Implementation and FDO compliance profiles led to a change of practices towards FDO usage or consumption, particularly across FDO deployments.
Validation or evaluation of FDOs, FDO profiles and/or FDO types.
Use of FDOs to build a cross-disciplinary, global and distributed testbed.
Implementing FDOs in the realm of dataspace technology to build bridges.
FDO interoperability solutions to enable cross-walks.
FDO in the European Open Science Cloud or any other large funding program..
Experiences of adopting FDO approaches in infrastructures and pathways to adoption.
The potential of FDOs to increase FAIRness and support Open Science.
The potential of FDOs to build a global data landscape characterised by the STAP principles.
Other contributions that focus on the concept, development, or application of FDOs.

Please note: Contributions that address FAIR and the STAP Principles in a general way should be submitted to other conferences. The focus here needs to be on the specific contributions using FDOs.
Submission of abstracts for Papers and Lightning Talks
For presentations, please submit extended abstracts of up to two pages (excluding references and diagrams). For posters and lightning talks, submit extended abstracts of up to one page (excluding references and diagrams). Abstract submissions should clearly indicate:
(i) how the work relates to the FDO concept
(ii) whether it is conceptual work, implementations, or applications
(iii) whether the submission is for a presentation, a poster or a lightning talk.
We will publish the abstracts and the full papers of accepted presentations and lightning talks via the peer-reviewed TIB Open Publishing (OJS) publication option. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. Evaluation criteria include: timeliness and relevance, substance and soundness, clarity and potential impact. Prizes will be awarded in the final session to the best three lightning talks (based on content and presentation) as voted by the conference participants.
Submission Process

Deadline for submissions: 26 October 2025
Submission Link: tbd (see website: https://fairdo.org/fdo-conference-2026/ )
Notification of acceptance: 15 December 2025

National Open Science Festival
2025-10-24 | Groningen
Open Science NL is delighted that the University of Groningen (UG) and the University Medical Center (UMCG) have generously offered to host this year’s festival. The one-day event will be held in the buildings of the UMCG.
Like last year, the festival is organised by a team with representatives from the host institution, Open Science NL, DANS, and the National Coordination Point for Research Data Management (LCRDM). In addition, the programme will be curated by an independent committee, ensuring broad community representation. The programme committee will be chaired by Casper Albers, dean of the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences and chair of the steering committee of the Open Science Programme at the University of Groningen, and Ana Ranitović, chief of Open Science at the University of Groningen.
Previous editions of the festival were hosted by Wageningen University (2021, online), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2022), Erasmus University Rotterdam (2023), and Maastricht University (2024).
The opening of registration will be announced via the festival’s communication channels and those of the participating organisations.

AI & Data Governance
2025-10-22 08:30 - 16:30 | LOFFICE, Schottenfeldgasse 85, Wien, 1070, Austria
Program

Overview
This workshop explores how ethical reflection, legal regulation, and responsible data use intersect in research practice in the age of AI and large language models (LLMs).
Participants will explore how principles such as ethics, democracy, and scientific integrity translate into concrete research practices with AI and data, addressing issues like bias, transparency, and the responsibilities of universities and researchers. They will also discuss regulatory frameworks such as the EU AI Act and the Data Governance Act, examining their implications for everyday research practices, data access, institutional compliance, and scientific accountability..
A key theme is data governance: understanding data as both a research resource and a matter of power, access, and control. Participants will consider how data infrastructures shape knowledge and how ethical and legal principles can ensure fairness and trust in research.
Guided by the idea of digital humanism and through interactive discussions, participants will engage with real-world scenarios, such as handling training data, ensuring fairness in automated systems, and aligning institutional practices with evolving EU regulations.
Who is the trainer?
Matthias C. Kettemann is Professor of Innovation, Theory and Philosophy of Law and head of the Department for Theory and Future of Law at the University of Innsbruck. He leads the University’s Quantum Ethics Lab and heads research programmes at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin and Leibniz Institute for Media Research in Hamburg.

Goal

By the end of the workshop, participants will:

Understand the ethical and governance frameworks shaping the use of AI and data in research.
Gain insight into European regulatory developments and their relevance for scientific practice.
Reflect on their own role and responsibility as researchers in a datafied ecosystem.
Develop a critical understanding of digital humanism as a guiding idea for responsible, human-centered innovation.

The workshop encourages researchers to act as ethical stewards of data and AI, combining legal awareness, normative reflection, and scientific responsibility in the pursuit of good science.

Precondition

Who can join?
This Workshop is organized for researchers affiliated with a Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, a university or research organization in Austria.

COST Open Call 2025
2025-10-21 12:00
Participants are invited to submit COST Action proposals contributing to the scientific, technological, economic, cultural or societal knowledge advancement and development of Europe. Multi- and interdisciplinary proposals are encouraged.
The Open Call Action proposal submission, evaluation, selection and approval (SESA) procedure is fully science and technology-driven and will ensure a simple, transparent and competitive proposal evaluation and selection process, reflecting the bottom-up, open and inclusive principles of COST.
Participants planning to submit a proposal for a COST Action will need to refer to the COST Open Call proposers guidelines and to the Open Call Announcement available on the Documents and Guidelines page.
All proposals are submitted via the dedicated online platform of the COST Association used for grant management, known as e-COST.

Call for papers - Special Issue of HEP on Open Science
2025-10-20 23:59 | Online
Disputed openness: universities, epistemic inequality and market forces in open science in the era of artificial intelligence

This Higher Education Policy (HEP) special issue invites scholarly contributions that critically examine the promises and contradictions of open science. ‘Contributions should critically engage with the ways in which financial interests, policy frameworks, geopolitical asymmetries, and disciplinary hierarchies shape current models of openness. We are particularly interested in analyses of the policy and governance dimensions that influence how universities interpret and implement open science agendas. This includes examining institutional, regulatory or structural constraints preventing higher education institutions from engaging openly with societal stakeholders or fostering dialogue with alternative knowledge systems, particularly when such engagement challenges dominant epistemologies, disciplinary boundaries or funding models.
The full Call for Papers can be accessed here: https://www.iau-aiu.net/IMG/pdf/special_issue_proposal_11_july_2025_.pdf
Timeline:
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 20 October 2025
Notification of abstract acceptance: 5 December 2025
Full manuscripts due: 30 June 2026
First peer review period: July-September 2026
Revised papers due: 1 December 2026
Second peer review period: December 2026 – January 2027
Expected publication date: April-May 2027
For any questions, please contact:
Carolina Guzmán-Valenzuela: carolina.guzman@uab.cat or Trine Jensen: t.jensen@iau-aiu.net

International Open Access Week
2025-10-20 - 2025-10-26
This year’s theme asks a pointed question about the present moment and how, in a time of disruption, communities can reassert control over the knowledge they produce. It also challenges us to reflect on not only who has access to education and research but on how knowledge is created and shared, where it has come from, and whose voices are recognized and valued.

4th Annual Forum for Open Research in MENA
2025-10-20 - 2025-10-23 | Sharjah
This year, the Annual Forum will offer a mixture of individual presentations, moderated round table discussions, and workshops. As accessibility lies at the hearts of everything we do, this will be a fully hybrid event, with all in-person activities live streamed, in English and Arabic. The programme will include a full day of online presentations, two days of in-person presentations, and a half day of high-impact workshops.
Reflecting the overarching message of last year’s Annual Forum concerning the need to collaborate as individuals, as institutions, as communities and countries – within our local environment and as a region – this year’s theme focuses on building our open science communities and developing our open science capacities.
Given the UAE has designated 2025 as the Year of Community, we are therefore particularly delighted to be able to announce that this year’s Annual Forum, will take place in the UAE, in partnership with the American University of Sharjah. We are honoured to be partnering with this institution, a regional leader for research and education in the Arab world. We are also excited to be able to host the Annual Forum in the Emirate of Sharjah, which is home to so many of the region’s leading publishers and collaborative research and innovation centers.

The 4th United Nations Open Science and Open Scholarship Conference
2025-10-16 - 2025-10-18 | Tokyo
From 16 to 18 October 2025, the 4th United Nations Open Science and Open Scholarship Conference will convene policymakers, IGO representatives, researchers, scholars, librarians, publishers, and civil society, both online and in person at the United Nations University (UNU) in Tokyo, Japan.
The Conference will serve as an urgent call to accelerate transformations in science and scholarship in alignment with the Pact for the Future, to map progress in national and international efforts towards opening the record of science, and to inspire collaborative actions and coalitions to expedite progress ensuring no country, community, or individual is left behind.
In September 2024, at the Summit of the Future, all 193 Member States of the United Nations adopted the action-oriented Pact for the Future. The Pact underscores that science is instrumental for the three pillars of the United Nations – sustainable development, peace and security, and human rights. Recognizing the potential for science to accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Pact supports policies toward open science and open innovation to help bridge science gaps especially in developing countries.
Despite these significant commitments, billions of people – especially in developing countries – still lack meaningful access to participate in and benefit from critical scientific knowledge, research infrastructure, and emerging technologies. Open science and open scholarship provide a transformative pathway to reverse these trends, fostering multilateral cooperation, responsible innovation, and the equitable dissemination of knowledge. As stated in the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, we must ensure “reciprocal access to science for all producers and consumers of knowledge regardless of their location, nationality, race, age, gender, income, socio-economic circumstance, career stage, discipline, language, religion, disability, ethnicity, migratory status or any other grounds”. More:

EconData Workshop
2025-10-14 - 2025-10-15 | Kiel
Struggling to turn data into valuable insights? Wondering where to find the right research data for your topic? Finding it tough to choose the right algorithms and methods?
Or maybe you just have a data-related question that has been on your mind for a while, but you have not had the right space to ask it?
You are a PhD candidate, early-career researcher, or advanced Master’s student in business, economics, or the social sciences, and you are facing questions like these? Then join our EconData Workshop and bring any data question you have not yet had the chance to ask. Choose the topics you want to focus on, and we will provide practical advice you can use right away in your research. No prerequisites are needed. Just come with your questions, and leave with fresh strategies.

Open Science 2025 Festival Follow-Up
2025-10-13 10:00 - 15:00
This follow-up to the 2025 Open Science Festival is open to everyone. You don’t need to have attended the festival to participate, and you’re welcome to join one or both sessions!

Session 1: Open Science Without Burnout: Building Healthier Research Culture (10:00-12:00 CEST)
Join burnout coach and data steward, Özgün Ünver, to explore how to engage with openness and transparency without overextending yourself. We’ll discuss setting boundaries, fostering sustainable practices, and building a healthier research culture for everyone. You’ll leave with practical insights—and a reminder that Open Science can be both impactful and sustainable.

Session 2: Community Conversations (13:00-15:00 CEST)
In this session, we’ll explore the common challenges that can leave open science practitioners feeling stuck and share practical, creative ways to move forward. Together, we’ll gather ideas for a little handbook to help everyone feel supported and less alone on their open science journey.

International Data Week 2025
2025-10-13 - 2025-10-16 | Brisbane, Australia
The International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), and the Research Data Alliance (RDA) are delighted to announce the International Data Week 2025: Trusted Research Data Driving Innovation and a Better World taking place on 13–16 October 2025, in Brisbane, Australia.

IDW 2025 will be hosted by the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) with assistance from the Australian Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).

Register now: EOSC-A 11th General Assembly
2025-10-10 09:00 - 13:00 | Online
The 11th General Assembly meeting of the EOSC Association will be held online on the morning of Friday, 10 October 2025. Register by Friday, 3 October 2025 to attend the meeting.
This GA will focus on the Association’s ongoing dialogue with the European Commission and the Member States concerning the future governance and financing models for EOSC post-2027.
The meeting will also serve to update you on the first draft of the EU’s next Multiannual Financial Framework, and a possible 10th Framework Programme. We hope to brief you on any relevant positions taken by the countries and the new or continuing legal instruments available for the evolution of EOSC and the EOSC Federation.

Open Science Conference 2025
2025-10-08 - 2025-10-09 | Hamburg
The Open Science Conference is an annual international conference dedicated to the Open Science movement. It provides a unique forum for researchers, data stewards, librarians, practitioners, infrastructure providers, policy makers, and other important stakeholders to discuss the latest and future developments in Open Science. In 2025, the conference returns to its roots and takes place as a face-to-face event in Hamburg again.
This year’s conference will have a special focus on the intersection between Open Science and AI. The rapid integration of artificial intelligence and corresponding tools into scientific research poses both new challenges but also opportunities for Open Science practices. This requires a reflection on how this can be aligned with transparency, accessibility, reproducibility, and reusability as core principles of Open Science.
The Open Science Conference is hosted by the Leibniz Strategy Forum Open Science and organised under the lead of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.

Programme Committee

Marie Alavi / Nicolaus Wilder (Kiel University)
Eileen Clancy / Tim Errington (Center of Open Science)
Daniel Mietchen (FIZ Karlsruhe)
Jan Rörden (German Institute for Global and Area Studies)
Guido Scherp (ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics)
Michela Vignoli (University of Vienna)

Shape the Future of Research Data Curation in Europe!
2025-10-01 - 2025-10-02 | Leuven
Join us in Leuven, Belgium, on October 1-2, 2025, for a transformative 2-day workshop to establish the European Expert Curation Network!
Are you passionate about research data curation, quality management, and long-term preservation? Do you want to be at the forefront of shaping FAIR and TRUST principles for the future? This is your chance to collaborate with leading experts and make a lasting impact.

Why Attend?
The EOSC EDEN project invites research data curation and long-term preservation experts to a hands-on workshop where we will:

Lay the foundations of a European Expert Curation Network.
Share expertise, experiences, and best practices.
Build a collaborative vision for advancing data curation and long-term preservation across disciplines and repositories.

This workshop is the first of two events designed to bring together experts from diverse domains, including organizations, repositories (generalist/specialist), collections, and digital object types. Together, we aim to harmonize curation practices and address the challenges of ensuring that data remains FAIR over time.

Event Details
📅 Dates: October 1-2, 2025
📍 Venue: Leuven, Belgium
💡 Travel Support Available: We will be offering travel support for selected participants. Participants will be selected based on criteria to ensure a balanced and diverse representation. This includes expertise in research data curation and long-term preservation, as well as coverage across disciplines, organization types, and digital object types.

Who Should Attend?
We are looking for approx. 20 experts with:

Expertise in research data curation, quality management, or long-term preservation.
Representation across organizations, repositories, collections, or digital object types.
A commitment to advancing FAIR+Time and TRUST principles.

If you and your organization are ready to lead the way in long-term FAIR data practices, this workshop is for you!
A second workshop is planned in 2026, focusing more on training and endorsement of the EOSC EDEN project outcomes.

Why This Matters
Curation is the cornerstone of long-term digital preservation, yet it remains a challenge for many institutions. By establishing a European Expert Curation Network, we aim to:

Address gaps in expertise and experience.
Provide a platform for collaboration and knowledge exchange.
Harmonize curation practices across disciplines and repositories.
Ensure data remains accessible and reusable as technology evolves.

This initiative is part of the EOSC EDEN project, which will develop and establish a framework to identify what data are candidates for long-term preservation based on use, benefit, and quality and a model for re-appraisal points along data lifecycle and test usability. EOSC EDEN will identify practices to support the creation of curation, long-term preservation, and access strategies in Europe. In collaboration with our sister project FIDELIS, we will work to facilitate the sustainable embedding of the European Expert Curation Network to ensure its long-term growth after the conclusion of the project.

Mark Your Calendar!
📅 Dates: October 1-2, 2025
Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of a groundbreaking initiative that will shape the future of research data curation in Europe.
To stay tuned for more details and the official call for contributions, make sure to subscribe to the FIDELIS & EOSC EDEN newsletter! See the sign-up form at the bottom of our homepage.

Contact
For more information about the workshop or the EOSC EDEN project, feel free to reach out to us:
📧 Email: pmo.eden(at)postit.csc.fi
🌐 Website: https://eden-fidelis.eu/

ERIS 2025
2025-09-29 - 2025-09-30 | Bulgaria
Since 2005 the Association for the Development of Information Society jointly with the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Bulgarian Academy of Science launched the EIS conference (Education in the Information Society). Initially, it was intended to serve as a forum attracting educational topics capturing the fast development of learning technologies but in 2013 it was rebranded to Education and Research in the Information Society (ERIS). During that initial period various topics on emerging technologies such as E-learning and education support systems, Serious games and virtual reality, Web technologies and cloud computing, Social networks and security of the Web environment, User modelling and user-adaptive systems, Natural language processing and information retrieval, Big data management and analysis, Knowledge discovery from data and text, Approaches for addressing cultural diversity and users with special needs, Innovative systems for e-governance, e-health and e-libraries, Social and legal aspects of the information society were discussed.
The forum targeted mainly leading research from Bulgarian academic institutions, adding to the programme contributions by invited speakers.
Responding to the interest beyond Bulgaria, since 2021 the ERIS conference was again updated with a new look and structure, and a vision to become again one of the leading computer science events in South-Eastern Europe.
The conference has several strengths:

Possibility to publish your work.
Useful feedback: The conference follows a thorough review process – each paper is reviewed by two members of the international programme committee.
Reasonable registration fees: Being supported by ADIS, the conference also has a very moderate conference fee.
Offering state-of-the-art content: the cycle for submitting and selecting papers is compact which allows project research with new results to be presented very expediently.
