Advancing AI-readiness and Machine-Actionability in the EOSC Ecosystem
2025-09-18 05:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Paris)
Expected Outcome:Project results are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:

EOSC will be advancing AI-readiness and Machine-Actionability (MA) in the ecosystem by offering AI-ready federated infrastructure and easy-to-use platform services for EOSC, in order to respond to one of the main challenges of research infrastructures for AI in science, namely the lack of interoperability between AI/ML solutions.
EOSC will focus on integrating machine-actionable repositories within the ecosystem and demonstrating their reliability and effectiveness by collaborating with repository owners and service providers to implement MA tools and protocols, ensuring seamless integration with the EOSC EU Node.

Scope:Today, the sustainable FAIRification of data can be a bottleneck towards the goal of a European web of FAIR data and services. The use of AI/ML can significantly help in the process of FAIRification, data curation and data quality assurance, close to the source of the data. EOSC shall promote actions that give incentives to further advance AI-readiness and Machine-Actionability in the EOSC federation for FAIRification and to support their application.
European researchers need access to compute and repository services to develop, train and validate AI/ML models, in line with the GenAI4EU initiative and other key initiatives, like the Apply AI strategy, based on AI-ready research data from research infrastructures and third-party repositories. The proposed infrastructures should complement the EOSC EU Node capacity and be able to scale to a large number of users within transnational access to high-value datasets from national and European Research Infrastructure and e-Infrastructure ecosystems.
AI-based assistance tools shall be customised and trained for the discovery and composition of open science resources into custom workflows allowing researchers to discover and interact with open science infrastructures, combining relevant data, software and application assets.
Open Data and Open Research Software are essential for reliable, trustworthy, and transparent AI/ML. They ensure that datasets and algorithms are well documented, accessible, and reproducible, enabling others to validate and understand AI/ML algorithms. This transparency fosters trust, supports ethical standards, and ensures compliance with regulations, particularly important in the field of AI/ML.
The proposals should focus on all following aspects:

Develop and prototype tools to drive machine-actionability in repositories, data, and services, establishing a network of trusted repositories linked to the EOSC EU Node;

formulate open protocols and policies to facilitate effortless data access, transfer, processing, and provenance updates within EOSC’s repository and service network;
deliver AI-based capabilities to make interoperable AI/ML solutions and facilitate the setup of custom workflows for research data processing;
offer tools/services for automatic quality measures of inputs and outputs of the AI/ML models.

Provide federated infrastructure services for serving AI models integrating horizontal and thematic EOSC nodes:

ensure capacities for AI model retraining and inference;
take into account the whole research data life cycle, including raw data retention before AI modelling.

Provide access to an easy-to-use technology platform offering reference implementations and recipes to quickly get started working with AI/ML with limited engineering overhead:

promote and apply state-of-the-art AI/ML operational best practices;
validate reference implementations and share commonly used recipes within EOSC.

Establish and/or provide access to existing AI/ML model repositories and services to serve models for retraining of generic models for specific needs for future predictions and reproducibility:

create AI/ML model repository and enhance FAIRness of existing AI/ML models;
offer services for utilisation of these models, including fine-tuning and inference, thus providing the foundational building blocks for the development of AI applications in EOSC.

Establish an EOSC AI/ML competency centre for the pooling of expertise and coordinated support on AI/ML use of data, compute infrastructure and AI/ML models for the upskilling and technical support of EOSC users and research operators, as a strategic asset that will enable a new paradigm for science production.

The proposers should take into account and leverage on the results of relevant projects in the field, including EOSC Data Commons[1], and the other initiatives and projects contributing to the development of EOSC, especially in the area of machine-actionability and data FAIRification.
This topic implements the co-programmed European Partnership for the European Open Science Cloud.
[1] EOSC Data Commons, Grant agreement ID: 101188179 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101188179

Data stewards, skills and training for Open Science and FAIR practices
2025-09-18 17:00
Expected Outcome:Projects are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

Definition of consistent core curricula for data stewards throughout Europe, fostering the adoption of Open Science and FAIR principles.
Enhanced data steward skills, enhancing their ability to manage and interpret complex data.
Advancement of Open Science education throughout all research career stages. Creation and standardisation of open science curricula tailored to researchers at all career stages, promoting consistency and collaboration in Open Science practices.
Expansion and strengthening of existing competence networks, broadening their scope across countries and disciplines and improving their readiness to support the uptake of Open Science and of EOSC. Development of a sustainable coordination network model to support synergies and continued growth.
Mainstreaming transparent, aligned, and interoperable Open Science practices and promoting efficiency and trustworthiness in the management of FAIR digital objects.

Scope:The uptake of Open Science practices and of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) requires dedicated, professional profiles for data curation and data management, as well as equipping researchers with adequate skills and supporting them for the sharing and re-use of FAIR research digital objects. However, at present, data stewards and related profiles lack well-defined career paths, and data sharing and other open science practices are not fully mainstreamed within the research community and are often not recognised in research assessment practices.
The objective of this topic is to foster a stronger culture of Open Science and to address gaps related to the professionalisation of data stewards and to the acquisition and recognition of open science and data management skills at all career levels. This requires the identification of consistent core curricula for data stewards, together with the further development and coordination of competence centres at the European level.
Proposals are expected to cover the following activities:

Coordinating European-level actions to make data steward curricula management consistent and to propose mechanisms to monitor their suitability and possible evolution.
Enhancing data steward and researcher curricula with Open Science and FAIR practices, ensuring adaptability at the different contexts, levels and scientific domains of applicability.
Addressing diverse data steward levels, including support staff and researchers.
Collaborating with existing competence centres to foster Open Science and FAIR networks.
Leveraging national networks and related institutional initiatives for European-level coordination.
Launching outreach programs targeting early-career researchers and less-structured communities.
Offering support to countries and institutions that are underrepresented and bolstering national competence centre networks.

Proposals are expected to build on and align with the European Competence Framework for Researchers (ResearchComp)[1] and with the revised Charter for Researchers[2], which underline the importance of Open Science competences and practices in research careers. Proposals should also seek for synergies with the activities of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) in order to reach a better recognition of open, collaborative practices in research assessment.
To ensure complementarity of outcomes, proposals are expected to cooperate and align with activities of the EOSC Partnership and to coordinate with relevant initiatives and projects contributing to the development of EOSC. In particular, proposals should take account of the results of the Skills4EOSC and FAIR-IMPACT projects and interact with related initiatives aimed at developing competence centres and at improving FAIR data practices in different contexts, like in research infrastructures, research performing organisation and higher education institutions. In particular, cooperation is expected with project(s) funded by call topic HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01-EOSC-02. Proposals are expected to propose adequate measures and tailor its support to different levels and contexts of data stewardship.
Proposals are expected to establish interactions with the operators of the EOSC Federation, in order to ensure alignment with the policies and practices of the EOSC Federation, notably on the area of data interoperability standards, persistent identifiers and others to identify useful tools and resources for the broad EOSC community. This topic implements the co-programmed European Partnership for the European Open Science Cloud.
[1] https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/jobs-research/researchcomp-european-competence-framework-researchers_en.
[2] https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/hrexcellenceaward/european-charter-researchers.

Using Generative AI (GenAI4EU ) for Scientific Research via EOSC
2025-09-18 17:00
Expected Outcome:
Project results are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:

EOSC will make available the high-quality machine-readable scientific datasets to be consumed by machine-driven Generative AI applications at the service of science in line with the GenAI4EU[1] initiative and other key EU initiatives, like the Apply AI strategy.
EOSC will facilitate the pooling and sharing of high-value data sets originated from EOSC and other data spaces identified as priorities (including, but not limited to, public sector, health, climate, environmental, manufacturing, agriculture, energy, financial and mobility data). The large-scale actions supported by EOSC will include the creation of common data platforms enabling secure and compliant sharing and reuse of sensitive, confidential, proprietary and personal data, as well as large-scale experimentation based on Generative AI, in line with the GenAI4EU initiative and other key EU initiatives, like the Apply AI strategy.

Scope:
The scope of this call is to demonstrate and foster the use of Generative AI for Scientific Research, in line with the GenAI4EU initiative and other key EU initiatives, like the Apply AI strategy, throughout the research data lifecycle supported by EOSC. Generative AI can be used for activities such as writing, data generation and analysis, reporting and many others, for improving productivity. This enables lifting science beyond the human scale by facilitating the deployment and use of smart algorithms, machine learning and AI services onto the Web of FAIR Data. The awareness and readiness of using Generative AI for scientific research must be raised by training activities.
AI-powered natural language interfaces can transform the way researchers interact with open science infrastructures, how they discover and combine relevant data, software and application assets. EOSC should evolve towards offering such capabilities in ways that ensure unbiased and trustworthy responses. This includes adopting FAIR practices, for AI-trained models as well, to address challenges ranging from reproducibility to trustworthiness.
Open Data and Open Research Software are essential for reliable, trustworthy, and transparent GenAI. They ensure that datasets and algorithms are well-documented, accessible, and reproducible, enabling others to validate and understand GenAI algorithms. This transparency fosters trust, supports ethical standards, and ensures compliance with regulations, particularly important in the field of GenAI.
The proposals shall focus on all following aspects:

Enrich the EOSC federation with Generative AI tools for evaluating research data quality, ensuring trustworthiness across the European network of trusted repositories, accessible by humans, machines, and Generative AI services: formulate protocols and policies to facilitate effortless data access, processing, and provenance updates within EOSC’s repository and service network.
Support European research infrastructures to improve the FAIRness of their data, so that they are ready to be combined with data of infrastructures in scientifically neighbouring domains, in order to provide Generative AI-ready data.

conduct pilots to validate the effectiveness and accuracy of the Generative AI-driven data quality evaluation methods, iteratively improving and refining them based on feedback and real-world use cases and removing the potential biases inherited from the training data.

Run community engagement and support programmes for implementing Generative AI in scientific workflows via EOSC:

promote a sound training programme to facilitate the uptake and the use of Generative AI as a means to facilitate the FAIRification of data and data curation;
demonstrate how Generative AI can facilitate quality assessment of FAIR data;
advance the realization of machine-actionable (MA) research data and services, including AI-based systems;
propose protocols and policies to govern automatic data workflows within the network of repositories and services.

The proposals are expected to deliver on one or more of the following:

Develop, promote and support real-life use cases for Generative AI models in scientific research domains, in line with the GenAI4EU initiative and other key EU initiatives, like the Apply AI strategy, such as:

augment datasets in scientific fields that rely on image analysis, such as biology, astronomy, and materials science: by generating synthetic images that closely resemble real data, researchers can expand their datasets, improve model robustness, share anonymized version of sensitive data and generalize better to unseen scenarios;
learn the underlying patterns of complex time-series data, such as sensor readings in environmental monitoring or physiological signals in healthcare: by generating data samples that match the learned distribution, these models can detect anomalies or deviations from normal behaviour;
accelerate materials design and discovery by predicting the properties of new materials without the need for extensive experimental testing: these models can generate novel material structures with desired properties, such as strength, conductivity, or catalytic activity, based on learned relationships between material compositions and properties;
advance drug design and molecular modelling by generating novel molecular structures with desired pharmacological properties: these models can explore vast chemical spaces, predict the interactions between molecules and biological targets, and optimize drug candidates for efficacy and safety;
simulate complex systems and phenomena in various scientific domains, such as physics, chemistry, and ecology: by capturing the underlying dynamics and interactions of the system, these models can generate realistic simulations that mimic observed behaviour or predict future outcomes under different conditions.

The proposers should take into account and leverage on the results of relevant projects in the field, including AI4EOSC[2], iMagine[3], EOSC Data Commons[4], RI-SCALE[5], and other developments within the scope of the GenAI4EU initiative and other key EU initiatives, like the Apply AI strategy.
This topic implements the co-programmed European Partnership for the European Open Science Cloud.
Proposals could consider the inclusion of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) research infrastructure in their research infrastructure portfolio for the creation and sharing or high-quality machine-readable scientific datasets to be consumed by machine-driven Generative AI applications. In this regard, the JRC will consider collaborating with any successful proposal.
[1] This call falls under the ‘GenAI4EU’ initiative as in the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic And Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on boosting startups and innovation in trustworthy artificial intelligence ((COM(2024) 28 final of 24.1.2024).
[2] https://ai4eosc.eu/
[3] https://www.imagine-ai.eu/
[4] Grant no 101188179 from the call HORIZON-INFRA-2024-TECH-01
[5] Grant no 101188168 from the call HORIZON-INFRA-2024-TECH-01

ІV International Conference “Open Science and Innovation in Ukraine 2025”
2025-09-22 - 2025-09-23
The State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine, in cooperation with TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology University Library, and with the support of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, is pleased to invite you to participate in the Fourth International Conference “Open Science and Innovation in Ukraine 2025”, which will take place online on 22–23 October 2025. The event is organized within the framework of the International Open Access Week 2025.
The Fourth International Conference “Open Science and Innovation in Ukraine 2025” aims to foster dialogue among stakeholders on the effective adoption of open science practices in Ukraine. Key challenges to be addressed during the event include ensuring sustainable and uninterrupted access to research infrastructure, open access to research outputs, enhancing the national research assessment system, and aligning national policies with the European Union’s requirements and best practices in open science, including standards for research data exchange.
The conference will provide an open space for professional exchange of experience, ideas, and best practices. It offers a unique opportunity for cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary dialogue among researchers, policymakers, infrastructure providers, innovators, and policy developers. The expected outcomes of the event include strengthened cooperation, the formation of new partnerships, and the development of a shared vision for integrating Ukrainian science into the European Research Area through open science and innovation mechanisms.

ENRIO 2025
2025-09-22 - 2025-09-24 | Ljubljana
The ENRIO 2025 Congress in Ljubljana will continue the newly established series of biennial events addressing research integrity practice (RI) and the development of responsible research in Europe. ENRIO 2025 is organised by the European Network of Research Integrity Offices (ENRIO) and University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
The Congress is aimed at all experts in research integrity and research ethics, RI officers and practitioners, members of ethics and investigation committees, representatives of research funding organisations and sponsors, and all interested and involved in the enhancement and sustainable implementation of good RI practices and policies.
Thematically, the Congress will emphasise power dynamics in research and institutional responsibility to foster an open, safe and inclusive research environment as a foundation for RI in everyday practice. In a broader global context, this also implies the recognition of fairness, equity and diversity as essential components of RI, as outlined in the Cape Town Statement of 2022. Contributions will reflect the range of challenges, as well as practical and emerging solutions for prevention and awareness raising.

9th Open Science Retreat: 23-24 September 2025 – apply now! “Diamond OA: Utopian Dream or the Only Fair Future?”
2025-09-23 - 2025-09-24 | Online
We cordially invite you to the 9th Open Science Retreat – this time with a focus on Diamond Open Access.
Diamond Open Access has gained increasing attention in recent years as a community-led, equitable model for scholarly publishing that aligns closely with the principles of Open Science. But is Diamond Open Access the long-awaited solution for equitable scholarly publishing – or merely an idealistic vision? This retreat critically explores the promises and limitations of Diamond OA, its role in advancing Open Science, and the role of the scientific community in the success of the model. A view on financing models and a spotlight on successful Diamond OA initiatives will provide practical insights into key success factors and persistent challenges.
To guide our discussions, we propose the following questions:

What can the contribution of Diamond OA be to addressing current challenges in scholarly publishing and where does its potential end?
What are effective strategies, recommendations, best practices or lessons-learnt to applying AI in a responsible manner for upholding the Open Science principles?
What policy and infrastructure conditions are necessary to ensure Diamond OA can flourish?

Join us for a critical examination of whether Diamond OA is an innovative model or simply the next battleground in the future of publishing. We are looking forward to an exciting retreat – be part of it!

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.

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/

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)

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.

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).

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.

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.

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:

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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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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.

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.

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.
