Be part of the latest open research conversations by submitting your work or attending the below upcoming events! Submit your abstracts for the RESSH2025 conference, contribute to the WOOC workshop, or attend other key gatherings in Dublin, The Hague, and online.
Call for submissions: RESSH2025 conference
19–21 May 2025 | Helsinki, Finland
Join the Research Evaluation in Social Sciences and Humanities (RESSH2025) conference organised by the international association ENRESSH (European Network for Research Evaluation in the SSH). This event focuses on the evolving landscape of research evaluation in the social sciences, humanities, and arts (SSH).
Abstracts for paper presentations and posters, addressing a wide range of topics, are welcomed until Friday, 31 January 2025.
View the submission details and register to attend
Call for contributions: Workshop on Open Citations & Open Scholarly Metadata (WOOC)
28–29 May 2025 | Bologna, Italy
Researchers, scholarly publishers, funders, policymakers, institutions, and advocates of open citations are invited to attend, participate in, and/or contribute to the Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata (WOOC) 2025. This year’s event will focus on the theme ‘Open Access of Research Information.’ The deadline for participation in WOOC is Friday, 31 January 2025.
For more information on the selection criteria and submission guidelines, please visit the event website.
Research Organization Registry (ROR) Annual Community Meeting 2025: National PID Policies and Practices
Tuesday, 4 February, 2025, 4 p.m. | Online
Dr Michelle Doran, National Open Research Coordinator, will join ROR’s Annual Community Meeting to share insights into the motivation behind Ireland’s National Persistent Identifier (PID) Roadmap and Strategy project, as well as the approach used to develop the strategy.
National Open Source Innovation Summit
Friday, 7 February 2025, 9 a.m.–5.30 p.m. | Alex Hotel, Dublin
Join the National Open Source Innovation Summit, hosted by Open Ireland Network, which brings together government, business, and academia to explore the power of open source in shaping our nation’s future. Dr Michelle Doran, National Open Research Coordinator, is a guest speaker at this event.
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Webinar series: Irish National Open Access Monitor
13 February, 13 March and 10 April, 2025, 12 p.m. | Online
In March 2024, NORF, Irish Research e-Library (IReL) and OpenAIRE jointly launched the pilot National Open Access Monitor, providing a cornerstone in Ireland’s move towards a fully open access research ecosystem.
In November 2024, IReL confirmed the extension of their agreement with OpenAIRE to develop and roll out the National Open Access Monitor. The original contract, which ended in June 2024, has been extended until the end of April 2025.
In order to further support the project, IReL and OpenAIRE are running an exciting programme of five online events (with a variety of themes) to better engage with and support the Irish research community. The next webinar ‘Strengthening Collaboration: Monitor & Repository Integration‘ is on Thursday, 13 February 2025.
Learn about the webinar topics and register to join
Love Data Week 2025: What’s love got to do with… data policies?
Friday, 14 February 2025, 11 a.m. | Online
Join the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) and the National Open Research Forum (NORF) for a one-hour webinar all about Irish data policies, highlighting emerging trends in policy recommendations that are helping to shape the Irish research landscape. Dr Michelle Doran, National Open Research Coordinator, will present on ‘Institutional policies and/or strategies that promote open science’. This webinar is part of a series of events organised globally under Love Data Week 2025, hosted by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). This year’s theme is ‘Whose Data Is It, Anyway?’.
Join the webinar
FAIRfest: Celebrating advancements of FAIR solutions in EOSC
20–21, February 2025 | The Hague, The Netherlands
FAIR-IMPACT and FAIRCORE4EOSC partners invite the broad European research community to FAIRfest which celebrates advancements of FAIR solutions in the European open science research landscape.
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