Panels
#OSFAIR2025
Open & Trusted: Governing Knowledge in the Digital Age
As AI and global tensions challenge science, how can we keep Open Science open and trustworthy? This panel explores how infrastructures like OpenAIRE, OPERAS, and EOSC are tackling disinformation, promoting quality, and safeguarding public trust in research.
As digital tools and AI reshape research, how do we ensure assessment remains ethical, fair, and fit for purpose? This panel by the CoARA-ERIP Working Group explores new frameworks for evaluating digital and AI-driven research, with a focus on integrity, interdisciplinarity, and societal relevance. Join us to help shape a future of responsible and inclusive research evaluation.
How can AI serve all research communities? This interactive session dives into real-world uses, ethical dilemmas, and collaborative strategies for integrating AI into open science infrastructure. With lightning talks, hands-on mapping, and a lively fishbowl discussion, we will challenge assumptions and co-create a path toward inclusive, responsible AI in research. No tech background needed, just your perspective.
Strange bedfellows, indeed: How the impact of the current political moment could accelerate an open science future
Amid political attacks on science in the US, Open Science finds itself championed for unexpected reasons. Is this a co-optation, or a catalyst for global change? Join a provocative panel exploring how shifting power dynamics, funding priorities, and ideologies are reshaping the future of international research, openness, and scientific integrity.
Rethinking Research Assessment: Emerging Trends in Open Science and Infrastructure
Reimagining Research Assessment: Open Science Values in Action
How can we build fairer, more inclusive research assessment systems? This panel explores how Open Science principles are reshaping Responsible Research Assessment, from narrative CVs to diverse outputs and responsible metrics. Join voices from CoARA, funders, researchers, and infrastructure providers as they share tools, lessons, and visions for future-ready reform.
Data for AI: From Readiness to Ethics
Are We AI-Ready?
Bridging Gaps in Data, Ethics, and Governance As AI reshapes research, how can we ensure readiness across policy, data, and workforce? This panel shares key insights from RDA and Microsoft-led workshops on AI governance, data standards, and ethical frameworks—highlighting new guidance on consent, review, and rights. Join us to explore what responsible, human-centered AI means for Europe’s research future and beyond.
Repository Reminaged: The Impact Repo Project
Repositories at the Heart of Open Science and AI Innovation
Open Science needs trusted, visible, and inclusive research outputs—and repositories are key. This panel showcases the IMPACT-REPO Action Plan and highlights innovative repository services that boost research impact, build trust, and support AI-driven discovery. Join us to explore how Europe’s repositories are evolving from access points to strategic engines of open science.
Made to measure: how do we responsibly monitor and assess Open Science?
Measuring What Matters: Rethinking Open Science Monitoring
As Open Science policies multiply, how do we know if they’re working? This panel brings together global leaders to explore emerging frameworks, indicators, and tools for tracking Open Science adoption and impact. From national monitors to institutional pilots, we’ll examine how to move beyond metrics that oversimplify—and toward evidence that informs, includes, and drives meaningful change.
From partnership to ecosystem: building/evolving open collaboration
Open and Commercial: Rethinking Partnerships for Sustainable Open Infrastructure
Can openness and commercial collaboration truly coexist? This panel brings together voices from across sectors to tackle tough questions about trust, funding, and sustainability. Join us for a candid discussion on building equitable, transparent partnerships that support resilient open infrastructure, without compromising core values.
Impact and Monitoring
Tracking the Impact of Open Science: Are We Measuring What Matters?
This panel brings together experts to explore how we assess the real-world effects of Open Science. What metrics reflect meaningful change? How can we monitor progress without losing sight of equity and inclusivity? Join us for a lively discussion on tools, frameworks, and lessons shaping the future of Open Science impact and monitoring.
Open Research Europe
Policies and Politics
Shaping the Future: The Policy Landscape of Open Science
What’s driving Open Science forward, and what’s holding it back? This invited panel brings together policy experts to unpack the major shifts, challenges, and opportunities shaping Open Science today. Join us for a lively discussion on aligning agendas, empowering institutions, and ensuring that Open Science policies are equitable, inclusive, and globally impactful.
Building Bridges: Cultivating Open Science Communities Within Research Institutions
Building Open Science Communities That Last
Policies and training are just the start, how do we sustain Open Science through strong, researcher-led communities? This panel explores how institutions can embed openness into culture, support inclusive governance, and professionalize community-building roles. Join us to share lessons, spark ideas, and co-create pathways to lasting, people-powered change.