Fusing Forces: Accelerating Open Science through Collaboration

The fifth edition of Open Science Fair will be held from 15th to 17th September 2025 at the CERN Science Gateway in Geneva, Switzerland, hosted by the CERN Open Science Office and co-organised with OpenAIRE.

This year’s Open Science Fair 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.

The OS FAIR welcomes all actors of the research communities and infrastructures, including: librarians, repository managers, content providers, service providers, research administrators, facilitators of research, learned societies, publishers, policy makers and funders, citizen science groups and initiatives, and innovators in scholarly communication.

Conference Topics

We invite you to share updates and developments on open science initiatives within your organisations or countries / regions. ‘Open Science’ encompasses a range of elements, including established practices like open access to research outputs (such as publications, data, and software) and emerging aspects like open research methods, open evaluation, societal engagement, citizen science, and more. Successful proposals will make issues around collaboration explicit, for example: what can collaboration between various stakeholders, services, and infrastructures look like, and how can collaboration be enabled and facilitated?

You are encouraged to discuss and highlight practical experiences (both positive and negative). The presentation of demonstrations and prototypes are welcome.

Your contribution should be aligned with one of the main conference topics:

• Beyond Compliance: Measuring and Maximizing Open Science Impact
• Open, but at What Cost? Research Security & Open Science
• Building the Digital Backbone: Open Science Infrastructures
• Rethinking Research Assessment
• Open Science for All: Skills & Community

More information about the conference topics can be found here. Several topics will be present at the conference as cross-cutting topics. In particular, these are AI in Open Science and Policies for Equity & Inclusion. There are no tracks for these topics, but we encourage you to include these topics to wherever you see fit.

Please find all the information on where and how to submit a proposal on the conference website. The Call for Contributions is open until 30th of April.

Also, don't forget to register (early bird registration closes on 30th of June).