OpenAIRE and the CERN Open Science Office will jointly host the OSFair 2025 from 15 to 17 September at the CERN Science Gateway in Geneva. The event will serve as a platform for advancing Open Science through cross-sectoral and international collaboration, reinforcing the movement’s emphasis on inclusive knowledge creation, sharing, and application.
Under the theme “Fusing Forces – Accelerating Open Science through Collaboration,” the conference will highlight the importance of cooperative approaches in addressing global research challenges. The program will emphasize the value of bringing together perspectives across disciplines, institutions, and regions to foster transparency, innovation, and mutual understanding in research. Organizers have framed this theme as a response to the need for collective intelligence to manage uncertainty, tackle emerging scientific questions, and unlock insights that are otherwise difficult to achieve in disciplinary or institutional silos.
OSFair 2025 builds on the success of the previous edition held in Madrid in 2023, which brought together 382 participants from 42 countries. That event, co-organized with Spain’s National Open Access Desk and the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), was formally recognized under the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Key areas of discussion in 2023 included reforming research assessment, exploring artificial intelligence in scholarly communications, enhancing publishing practices, and identifying new competencies for careers in Open Science. The format combined keynotes, panels, workshops, demonstrations, and poster sessions to facilitate exchange and engagement.
The upcoming edition will extend this format by offering two keynote addresses, thirteen panel sessions—including invited and peer-selected contributions—eighteen individual presentations, seven collaborative workshops, twelve demonstrations of tools and innovations, and twenty-four posters. These sessions are structured across five thematic tracks that address core issues in Open Science: measuring and maximizing impact beyond compliance, navigating research security within open frameworks, strengthening digital infrastructure, revisiting research assessment, and fostering inclusive skills and communities.
Complementing these primary tracks, the program incorporates two cross-cutting themes focused on artificial intelligence in Open Science and policies promoting equity and inclusion. These threads are integrated throughout the discussions to ensure systemic attention to evolving technologies and structural disparities in global research ecosystems.
Organizers describe the 2025 edition as particularly timely in light of ongoing challenges to trust, sustainability, and equity in scientific practice. The agenda will spotlight FAIR data principles, responsible evaluation methods, and the role of community-driven infrastructure in ensuring that science continues to serve the public interest. The event will convene researchers, practitioners, and policymakers from around the world who are engaged in shaping the next phase of the open science movement.
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