The Slovak Open Science Forum will take place on 25 November 2025 in Bratislava, organised by the Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information (CVTI SR), an OpenAIRE member and National Open Access Desk (NOAD) of Slovakia.
This year’s edition is held under the patronage of UNESCO.
The conference will be held in English.
The Forum will bring together leading voices in Open Science to explore the latest developments in open access to research data, research data management, research assessment, and citizen science.
It provides a valuable opportunity for researchers, academics, librarians, students, and the broader public to exchange ideas and promote openness, transparency, and collaboration in science.
Programme:
- Welcome — Slovak Commission for UNESCO
- Ezra Clark (UNESCO) — Towards equitable scholarly communication: Implementing the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science
- @IvaMZ (DIAMAS, SPARC, HR) — The Role of Diamond Open Access in the Future of Scholarly Publishing
- Jan Černý (VŠE, CZ) — Artificial Intelligence in Intellectual Property
- Hana Heringová (NTK, CZ) — Persistent Identifiers and Support of their Implementation in Czechia
- Natascha Pargas (Springer, NL) — Slovakia’s Open Access Transformation with Springer Nature
- Katarína Skokanová (Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra* — Citizen Science in Slovakia: preliminary results of the survey
- Jitka Dobbersteinová (CVTI SR) — The development of Open Access publishing in Slovakia
Learn more and register: https://otvorenaveda.cvtisr.sk/slovak-open-science-forum-3/