Conference Programme

9:00-10:30

Parallel Workshops

Workshop | From OMP to DOAB, via Thoth: Open Collaboration to Amplify Slovenian OA Book

Location: Staszic Palace – Hall of Mirrors (164)

Facilitators: OPERAS Special Interest Group for OA Books

Workshop | AI for Research Blocks in SSH

Location: Staszic Palace – Mickiewicz Hall (144)

Facilitators: OPERAS Special Interest Group for AI

11:00-12:00

Opening

Location: Staszic Palace – Hall of Mirrors (164)

12:00-13:00

Keynote Speech

Location: Staszic Palace – Hall of Mirrors (164)

John Willinsky (PKP, Canada)

14:15-15:15

Panel Discussions

Panel I | European Regions in Action for Diamond OA – the EDCH National Capacity Centres

Location: Staszic Palace – Hall of Mirrors

Speakers: Johan Rooryck (OPERAS), Pierre Mounier (OPERAS, OpenEdition Center)

Panel II | Open Science, Research Security and Digital Sovereignty: Reframing Openness in the European Research Area

Lead: Tomasz Umerle (PCSS, CHC IBL PAN)

Location: Staszic Palace – Mickiewicz Hall (144)

15:30–16:30

Panel Discussion III, Presentation Session I

Panel III | OPERAS National nodes: developing European Infrastructure at the national level

Location: Staszic Palace – Hall of Mirrors (164)

Lead: Drahomira Cupar (University of Zadar / OPERAS-HR)

Speakers:

• Graham Stone (OAPEN Foundation / OPERAS-NL)
• Marta Caradonna (CNR ILIESI / OPERAS-IT)
• Magdalena Wnuk (CHC IBL PAN / OPERAS-PL)
• Pierre Mounier (OPERAS, OpenEdition Center / OPERAS-FR)

Session I | Strengthening Open Science Ecosystems: Skills, Services, and Institutional Networks

Location: Staszic Palace – Mickiewicz Hall (144)

Speakers and papers:

• Mirman Yves, The Ecology of Research Data Managers: The case of French support staff for open research data
• Wilczak Mariola, Górecki Przemysław, Beyond National Borders: The Polish Studies Newsletter as a Multilingual Infrastructure for Central European SSH Communication
• Lambov Ivan, Strategic Approach to Integrating the Needs of the Research Ecosystem
• Turgut Ramazan, Building Editorial Capacity for SSH Open Access Journals: Practice-Based DOAJ Workshops in Türkiye and Early Evidence of Improved Acceptance Outcomes

9:00-10:00

Panel IV and Session II

Panel IV | Collaborative open research in practice: perspectives from cross-partner work in GRAPHIA

Location: Staszic Palace – Hall of Mirrors (164)

Speakers:

• Crystal Silver (Abertay University)
• Magdalena Wnuk (CHC IBL PAN)
• Matteo Romanello (Odoma)
• Ursula Rabar (OPERAS)

Session II | The Fault Lines of Open Science: Power, Plurality, and the Struggle for Inclusive Knowledge

Location: Staszic Palace – Mickiewicz Hall (144)

Speakers and papers:

• Faïta Ioanna, Open Science under tension. Conflicts and blind spots in the French Social Sciences and Humanities
• Aziz Haris Bin, Open Science and Epistemic Inequality: Muslim Knowledge Production in European Research Infrastructures after 9/11
• Fiorini Susanna, Paquin Émilie, Multilingualism and AI: a Common(s) Challenge
• Alessia Smaniotto, Achenbach Kelly, Open Science timeline: a participatory exercise

10:15-11:15

Panel IV, Session III

Panel IV | Advancing Canada’s Diamond Open Access Infrastructure

Location: Staszic Palace – Hall of Mirrors (164)

Lead: Jeanette Hatherill (Coalition Publica)

Speakers:

• Tanja Niemann (Érudit)
• Alec Smecher (Public Knowledge Project)
• Tim Wilson (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council – SSHRC)
• Christian Agbobli (Fonds de recherche du Québec, Society and Culture Sector)

Session III |Infrastructures in the Making: Local Experiments and Systemic Change in Open Science

Location: Mickiewicz Hall

Speakers and papers:

• Karatas Tugce, Guerard Elisabeth, “Thinkering” with Digital Research Infrastructures for Open Science in Humanities
• Carolina Manfredini, Local infrastructures as boundary objects: building a non-proprietary Open Science framework at the University of Milan
• Johan Rooryck, Mounier Pierre, Implementing Open Peer Review in SSH Diamond Journals: Structural Challenges and Proposed Solutions
• Kupreyev Maxim, The technical path to transparency: systematizing data services in the OPERAS ecosystem

11:30-12:30

Panel V, Session IV

Panel Discussion V | The Dawning of a New ERA: What could the European Research Area Act do for Open Science (Infrastructures)?

Location: Staszic Palace – Hall of Mirrors (164)

Lead: Maria Drabczyk (Centrum Cyfrowe, Knowledge Rights 21)

Moderated by Knowledge Rights 21 (conference partner), this session brings together a wide-ranging panel to dismantle one-dimensional policy narratives. Speakers representing academia (OPERAS, European research libraries) and policymakers (Polish administration and the European Commission) will offer distinct viewpoints on the Act’s impact.

Session IV | Rebuilding Scholarly Publishing: Institutional Infrastructures and Diamond OA in Europe

Location: Staszic Palace – Mickiewicz Hall (144)

Speakers and papers:

• Dvorakova Martina, Bargheer Margo, Nieborg Margreet, Thorn-Hillig Astrid, Volt Ivo, Wiese Robert, Mapping Institutional Publishers in Europe
• Pölönen Janne, Diamond Open Access in the Finnish Scholarly Publishing Landscape
• Margherita Criveller, When Price Becomes a Metric: Methodological Pitfalls in Estimating APCs and Journal “Value”
• Westphal Stefanie, Wienert Annika, Diamond Departure – SeDOA in dialogue with stakeholders in the German Diamond publishing network

14:00-15:00

Keynote Speech

Location: Staszic Palace – Hall of Mirrors (164)

Anna Wałek (OAPEN)

15:15-16:15

Panel VI, Session V

Panel VI | SSH services beyond SSH: how LUMEN’s outcomes can improve cross-disciplinary and cross-domain data findability and (re)use

Location: Staszic Palace – Hall of Mirrors

Lead: Carol Delmazo (OPERAS)

Speakers:

• Fotis Mystakopoulos (OPERAS)
• Julien Homo (Foxcub)
• Luca De Santis (Net7)
• Christelle Pierkot (IR Data)

Session V | Organizing Knowledge in the Open Science Ecosystem: Metadata, Data Citation, and Trust Frameworks

Location: Staszic Palace – Mickiewicz Hall

Speakers and papers:

• Florian Wiktor, Wałek Anna, Metadata Quality as a Shared Effort: Collaborative Innovation for Discoverability and Bibliodiversity
• Drummond Christina, Maintaining a Trusted Ecosystem of Multi-Party Data via Trust Indicators and Accountability Mechanisms
• Vipavc Brvar Irena, Fostering a Culture of Data Citation through Practical, Multi-Stakeholder Recommendations across the Research Ecosystem
• Materska Katarzyna, Organizing Documents vs. Organizing Knowledge Production: Libraries and Research Infrastructures in the OPERAS Ecosystem