The Slovenian Open Science Day 2025 will take place on 20–21 November 2025 at the Four Points by Sheraton Ljubljana Mons in Ljubljana, as part of the Knowledge Network 2025 conference. Organised within National Science Month 2025, the event will bring together national and international experts, policymakers, and research support professionals to discuss the role of open science in shaping a modern research ecosystem.
The first day will focus on national perspectives – implementing open science principles, reforming research assessment, and presenting examples of good practice. The second day will serve as the EOSC national tripartite event, focusing on the development and establishment of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Federation – a connected environment enabling efficient management of research data, services, and infrastructures. Discussions will highlight the role of research infrastructures, data centres, and supercomputing as key building blocks of open science.
The event is thematically linked to the SLING Days (Slovenian Supercomputing Network Days) – the main Slovenian supercomputing event, showcasing achievements, the activities of the HPC competence center, and best practices in the use of HPC infrastructure.
Registrations are now closed, but you can still watch the livestream from the comfort of your office.
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Open Science Day 2025: Day 1 – 20 November 2025
The event will be held in Slovenian. |
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| Registration and coffee | |
| Opening remarks Tomaž Boh, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation of the Republic of Slovenia Klavdija Kutnar, Rectors’ Conference of the Republic of Slovenia Klemen Miklavič, Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency Ana Slavec, Slovenian Open Science Community Marko Drobnjak, Academic and Research Network of Slovenia |
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| Open science in Slovenia Moderator: Maja Peharc, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation of the Republic of Slovenia Overview of the implementation of open science principles in Slovenia – insight via ARIS research for 2024 – Mirjam Dular, Špela Velikonja, Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency Open science monitor – Milan Ojsteršek, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Laboratory for Heterogeneous Computing Systems Establishing data infrastructure in Slovenia – Peter Sterle, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation of the Republic of Slovenia |
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| Keynote Presentations: Evaluation of Science and Assessment of Career Advancement in the Stable Funding of Research Work – Marjetka Strle Vidali and Petra Berčič, Slovenian Institute for Standardisation Research Assessment Reform in Norway. NOR-CAM and the National CoARA Chapter – Herman Strøm, University of South-Eastern Norway Roundtable: Research assessment and career progression in the context of stable funding of scientific work Moderator: Sebastian Dahle, University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty Participants: Andrej Pančur, Coordination of Independent Research Institutes of Slovenia Lidija Fras Zemljič, University of Maribor Klavdija Kutnar, Rectors’ Conference of the Republic of Slovenia Klemen Miklavič, Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency |
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| Open science: from policy to good practices
Moderator: Ana Slavec, Slovenian Open Science Community Support for the implementation of open science principles in Slovenia (SPOZNAJ) – Ana Slavec, Slovenian Open Science Community FAIR, open and AI-ready Earth observation resources (FAIR-EO) – Tadej Tomanič, Bias Variance Labs Comparing thematic priorities in parliaments based on ParlaMint corpora (PARLA-CAP) – Taja Kuzman Pungeršek, Jožef Stefan Institute Citizen science as a tool for observing and protecting wildlife (PRO-COAST) – Žiga Velkavrh, University of Primorska, Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies – remote Research data in scientific journals and other activities in 2025 (Slovenian RDA Node) – Janez Štebe, Social Science Data Archives, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana The right to secondary publication (Knowledge Rights 21 Network) – Maja Bogataj Jančič, Intellectual Property Institute / Institute for Intellectual Property and Open Data Scholarly communication for the social sciences and humanities (OPERAS PLUS) – Aleš Pogačnik, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts Open science for the Ukrainian higher education system (Open4UA) – Sebastian Dahle, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana |
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Open Science Day 2025: Day 2 – EOSC National Tripartite Event: “Connecting Science” – 21 November 2025
The event will be held in English. |
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| Opening remarks minister Igor Papič, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation of the Republic of Slovenia Andrej Pančur, Coordination of Independent Research Institutes of Slovenia Bertil Egger Beck, European Commission, DG RTD Sara Garavelli, EOSC Association – remote Ana Slavec, Slovenian Open Science Community Marko Bonač, Academic and Research Network of Slovenia |
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| Panel discussion: Research infrastructures as the intersection of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and supercomputing Moderator: Marko Drobnjak, Academic and Research Network of Slovenia Participants: Bertil Egger Beck, European Commission, DG RTD Peter Szegedi, European Commission, DG CNECT Tiziana Ferrari, EGI Foundation Samo Stanič, Slovenian National Supercomputing Network Sašo Džeroski, Jožef Stefan Institute |
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| Building the national EOSC Node: Data centres and core services (introductory presentation) Round table: The role of EOSC Nodes in building the EOSC Federation Moderators: Irena Vipavc Brvar, Social Science Data Archives, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, and Marko Drobnjak, Academic and Research Network of Slovenia Participants: Sara Garavelli, EOSC Association – remote Maja Dolinar, OpenAIRE Aneta Pazik-Aybar, Polish National Science Centre (NCN) / National Node EOSC.PL – remote Luděk Matyska, EOSC Steering Board Emir Imamagić, University Computing Centre, University of Zagreb (SRCE) Darja Fišer, Institute of Contemporary History / CLARIN |
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| How supercomputing transforms research and innovation Moderator: Jan Jona Javoršek, Jožef Stefan Institute |
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Programme Committee
Mirjam Dular, Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
Lucija Ivanuša, Academic and Research Network of Slovenia
Marko Drobnjak, Academic and Research Network of Slovenia
Urša Vodopivec, Academic and Research Network of Slovenia
Maja Bogataj Jančič, Intellectual Property Institute / Open Intellectual Property Institute
Maja Peharc, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation of the Republic of Slovenia
Peter Sterle, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation of the Republic of Slovenia
Mojca Kotar, University of Ljubljana
Irena Vipavc Brvar, Social Science Data Archives, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana
Sebastian Dahle, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana
Milan Ojsteršek, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Laboratory for Heterogeneous Computer Systems
Brina Klemenčič, University of Maribor Library
Dolores Hunsky, University of Maribor Library
Dunja Legat, University of Maribor Library
Elena Bužan, University of Primorska
Klavdija Kutnar, University of Primorska
Ana Slavec, University of Primorska / InnoRenew CoE
Jerneja Fridl, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU)
Mateja Jemec Tomazin, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU)
Jana Kolar, National and University Library
