CHARTING THE COURSE: REIMAGINING OPEN SCIENCE FOR NEXT GENERATIONS

Advancing and reforming research assessment (RRA) and Open Science; connections, barriers and way ahead

• Alternative assessment approaches
• How to value all contributions to the scholarly process?
• Equity, diversity, and inclusion
• Funding & institutional support

AI impact on Open Science and Open Science impact on AI

• AI tools and platforms impact for research
• Ethical considerations
• Natural Language processing, Machine Learning and Knowledge Representation
• Copyright and legal aspects (text and data mining, reproducibility, transparency, reusability of training and trained models and access to training materials for reproducibility)

Innovation & disruption in scholarly publishing

• New emerging publishing models
• Diamond Open Access; regional initiatives, projects and plans
• Rights Retention; primary and secondary publishing rights,
• Multilingualism in academic publishing

FAIR Data, software & hardware

• Collaborative development
• Open licensing and the new wave of EU data legislation.
• Reproducibility
• Interoperability

Openness in research & education

• Open Education
• Open Educational resources (OERs)

Public Engagement & Citizen Science

• Community driven research initiatives
• Tools and technology for public engagement
• Open data and scientific literacy