OSFair 2025 Theme

“Fusing Forces – Accelerating Open Science through Collaboration”

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

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

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

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Who?

OS FAIR 2025 is organised as an emblematic initiative of OpenAIRE, a not-for-profit organisation to ensure a permanent open scholarly communication infrastructure to support European research. This year the event will be co-organised with and hosted by CERN Open Science Office.

What?

OS FAIR 2025 aims to bring together and empower open science communities and services; to identify common practices related to open science; to see what are the best synergies to deliver and operate services that work for many; and to bring experiences from all around the world and learn from each other.

Conference topics

Fusing Forces – Accelerating Open Science through Collaboration

Impact and Monitoring of Open Science

Societal Impact
Open Science in a context of competitiveness, research security, and dual use
The influence of Open Science on policy
Monitoring showing the impact of Open Science

Open Infrastructure

Technical implementations to support open science
Repositories
Diamond Open Access
Emerging topics (including software, preregistration, peer review models, etc.)
State of play and novel approaches (What happened in your open infrastructure recently and what is the future?)

Training, Skills and Awareness

Community Engagement
Workshops, Tools, Experiments

Reforming Research Assessment

Appreciation of research through collaboration
Support of research assessment through open infrastructure

IMPORTANT DATES

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS is now open! Submit your proposal!


Talks \| Panels \| Workshops
Submissions deadline:	30 April 2025
Notification of acceptance / rejection:	23 May 2025


Posters
Submissions deadline:	16 May 2025
Notification of acceptance / rejection:	6 June 2025

Targeted audience

Research communities and infrastructures, libraries, repository managers, content providers, service providers research administrators and facilitators of research, learned societies, publishers, policy makers and funders, citizen science groups and initiatives, innovators in scholarly communication.