On-site event in Warsaw, no participation fee.
Registration is open untill 10th of April 2026.
DAY 1 – SCIROS Conference, 18 May – Monday
9:00-17:00
PKP Sprint
9:00-17:00
SCIROS validation workshop
Location: Staszic Palace – Adam Mickiewicz Hall (144)
DAY 2 – SCIROS Conference, 19 May – Tuesday
9:00-13:30
SCIROS validation workshop
Location: Staszic Palace – Adam Mickiewicz Hall (144)
9:00-17:00
PKP Sprint
14:00-17:00
Diamond National Capacity Center + Operas National Nodes meeting
For invited members
DAY 3 – Wednesday, 20 May 2026
9:00-10:30 – Parallel Workshops
Workshop | From OMP to DOAB, via Thoth: Open Collaboration to Amplify Slovenian OA Book
Location: Staszic Palace – Room 132
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
10:30-11:00 – Break
11:00-12:00 – Opening
Location: Staszic Palace – Hall of Mirrors (164)
12:00-13:00 – Keynote speech: Three Keys to Driving Open Science Forward
Location: Staszic Palace – Hall of Mirrors (164)
John Willinsky (PKP, Canada)
13:00–14:15 – Lunch
Location: Staszic Palace – first-floor lobby
14:15-15:15 – Panel Discussions
[Parallel activities]
Panel I | Rebuilding Scholarly Publishing: Institutional Infrastructures and Diamond OA in Europe
Location: Staszic Palace – Hall of Mirrors
Speakers:
- 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
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)
15:15-15:30 – Break
15:30–16:30 – Panel Discussion III, Presentation Session I
[Parallel activities]
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
16:30–17:00 – Community Walk: Institutions, Access, Public Space
From Staszic Palace to Museum of Warsaw
A guided walk to the second conference venue (approx. 1.5 km), passing several iconic Warsaw landmarks and offering an opportunity for informal networking along the way.
17:00–18:00 – Guided Tour
Museum of Warsaw
Guided tour of the exhibition.
18:00–19:30 – Poster Session
Museum of Warsaw – Courtyard Lapidarium
[Details on posters soon]
19:30–21:00 – Reception
Museum of Warsaw – Courtyard Lapidarium
Cocktail Party
DAY 4 – Thursday, 21 May 2026
9:00-10:00 – Panel IV and Session II
[Parallel activities]
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
10:00-10:15 – Break
10:15-11:15 – Panel IV, Session III
[Parallel activities]
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
11:15-11:30 – Break
11:30-12:30 – Panel V, Session IV
[Parallel activities]
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: Stephen Wyber (Director of Policy and Advocacy, IFLA, KR21 Management Committee)
Speakers:
- Iva Melinščak Zlodi (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, SPARC Europe)
- Michał Goszczyński (Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Science and Higher Eduaction, Poland)
- Pierre Mounier (OPERAS, OpenEdition Center)
Session IV | European Regions in Action for Diamond OA – the EDCH National Capacity Centres
Location: Staszic Palace – Mickiewicz Hall (144)
Speakers and papers:
- Pierre Mounier & Johan Rooryck EDCH Co-coordinators
- Pilar Rico Castro, FECYT, EDCH NNC and OPERAS NN
- Mateusz Franczak, DCC-PL, EDCH NNC (currently in development)
- Maria Especiosa, University of Coimbra, OPERAS NN
12:30-14:00 – Lunch
14:00-15:00 – Keynote Speech
Location: Staszic Palace – Hall of Mirrors (164)
Anna Wałek (OAPEN)
15:00-15:15 – Break
15:15-16:15 – Panel VI, Session V
[Parallel activities]
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
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