Monday, May 18, 2026
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 09:00 - 17:00 | PKP Sprint - Satellite event: Public Knowledge Project Sprint 2026 || Details available through the PKP Sprint website: https://pkp.sfu.ca/pkp-waw-sprint-2026/ | |
| 13:00 - 17:00 | SCIROS validation workshop (Staszic Palace - Adam Mickiewicz Hall (144)) - SCIROS team |
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 09:00 - 13:30 | SCIROS validation workshop (Staszic Palace - Adam Mickiewicz Hall (144)) - SCIROS team | |
| 09:00 - 17:00 | PKP Sprint - Satellite event: Public Knowledge Project Sprint 2026 || Details available through the PKP Sprint website: https://pkp.sfu.ca/pkp-waw-sprint-2026/ | |
| 14:30 - 17:30 | Diamond National Capacity Center + Operas National Nodes meeting - For invited memebers |
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Workshop (Staszic Palace - Adam Mickiewicz Hall (144)) | (+) |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | › AI for Research Blocks in SSH - Patryk Hubar-Kołodziejczyk, The Institute of Literary Research of The Polish Academy of Sciences | |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Workshop (Staszic Palace - Room 132) | (+) |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | › From OMP to DOAB, via Thoth: Open Collaboration to Amplify Slovenian OA Book - Karla Avanço, Aix-Marseille Université - Aleš Pogačnik, ZRC SAZU - Anna Wałek, oapen - Wiktor Florian, oapen - Toby Steiner, Thoth Open Metadata - Rupert Gatti, Thoth Open Metadata | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Break (Staszic Palace - Stanisław Staszic Hall (166)) | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Opening (Staszic Palace - Hall of Mirrors (164)) | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Keynote speech: Three Keys to Driving Open Science Forward (Staszic Palace - Hall of Mirrors (164)) - John Willinsky | |
| 13:00 - 14:15 | Lunch (Staszic Palace - Stanisław Staszic Hall (166)) | |
| 14:15 - 15:15 | Rebuilding Scholarly Publishing: Institutional Infrastructures and Diamond OA in Europe (Staszic Palace - Adam Mickiewicz Hall (144)) | (+) |
| 14:15 - 15:15 | › When Price Becomes a Metric: Methodological Pitfalls in Estimating APCs and Journal “Value” - Criveller Margherita, University of Milan | |
| 14:15 - 15:15 | › Diamond Departure – SeDOA in dialogue with stakeholders in the German Diamond publishing network - Stefanie Westphal, Max Weber Stiftung - Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland, Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel - Annika Wienert, Max Weber Stiftung - Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland, Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau | |
| 14:15 - 15:15 | › Diamond Open Access in the Finnish Scholarly Publishing Landscape - Janne Pölönen, Federation of Finnish Learned Societies | |
| 14:15 - 15:15 | › Mapping Institutional Publishers in Europe - Martina Dvorakova, Association of European University Presses - Margreet Nieborg, University of Groningen [Groningen] | |
| 14:15 - 15:15 | Open Science, Research Security and Digital Sovereignty: Reframing Openness in the European Research Area (Staszic Palace - Hall of Mirrors (164)) | (+) |
| 14:15 - 15:15 | › Open Science, Research Security and Digital Sovereignty: Reframing Openness in the European Research Area - Tomasz Umerle, Poznanskie Centrum Superkomputerowo-Sieciowe (PCSS), IBL PAN | |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Coffee break (Staszic Palace - Stanisław Staszic Hall (166)) | |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | OPERAS National nodes: developing European Infrastructure at the national level (Staszic Palace - Hall of Mirrors (164)) | (+) |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | › OPERAS National nodes: developing European Infrastructure at the national level - Drahomira Cupar, University of Zadar - Graham Stone, OAPEN Foundation - Marta Caradonna, CNR ILIESI - Magdalena Wnuk, Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences - Pierre Mounier, Open Scholarly Communication in the European Research Aerea for Social Sciences and humanities, OpenEdition Center | |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Strengthening Open Science Ecosystems: Skills, Services, and Institutional Networks (Staszic Palace - Adam Mickiewicz Hall (144)) | (+) |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | › Strategic Approach to Integrating the Needs of the Research Ecosystem - Ivan Lambov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences = Académie bulgare des sciences [Académie des sciences de Bulgarie] = Българска академия на науките | |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | › Beyond National Borders: The Polish Studies Newsletter as a Multilingual Infrastructure for Central European SSH Communication - Mariola Wilczak, The Digital Humanities Centre of the Institute of Literary Research, PAS - Przemysław Górecki, Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk | |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | › Building Editorial Capacity for SSH Open Access Journals: Practice-Based DOAJ Workshops in Türkiye and Early Evidence of Improved Acceptance Outcomes - Ramazan Turgut, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) | |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | › The Ecology of Research Data Managers: The case of French support staff for open research data - Yves Mirman, OpenEdition Center | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Community Walk: Institutions, Access, Public Space - 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 | Museum of Warsaw - Guided tour of the exhibition | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | Poster session (Museum of Warsaw - Courtyard Lapidarium) | (+) |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | › National Capacity Centres for Diamond Open Access - strengthening Diamond OA locally - Papadopoulou Athina, Open Scholarly Communication in the European Research Aerea for Social Sciences and humanities - Johan Rooryck, Open Scholarly Communication in the European Research Aerea for Social Sciences and humanities | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | › Innovation and Evaluation in Social Sciences and Humanities: The Role of FECYT in Promoting Quality and Transparency in Open Science - Pilar Rico-Castro, Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología - Laura Bonora, Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología - María Ángeles Coslado Bernabé, Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología - Virginia De Pablo Llorente, Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | › The Greek National Node of OPERAS - Iraklis Katsaloulis, National Documentation Centre (EKT) | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | › Strengthening SSH Communities in Portugal: the OPERAS Portuguese National Node in 2026 - Licínia Ferreira, Universidade de Coimbra = University of Coimbra [Portugal] - Nelson Ferreira, Universidade de Coimbra = University of Coimbra [Portugal] | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | › From National Coordination to European Impact: The Role of OPERAS France - Marina Cortes Aldaz, OPERAS France | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | › Designing FAIR-aligned, cross-disciplinary discovery ecosystems: insights from Co-design practices with scholars and industry partners. - Stefano De Paoli, Abertay University [Dundee], Abertay University | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | › Go for Editions! Using the GoTriple Platform to Trace and Analyze Communication About Digital Scholarly and Critical Editions - Agnieszka Szulińska, Digital Humanities Centre at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | › OPERAS-HR: Croatian National Node - Drahomira Cupar, University of Zadar | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | › Community Before Policy: Three Decades of Diamond Open Access in Croatia - Iva Grabarić Andonovski, University of Zagreb Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology - Jadranka Stojanovski, University of Zadar | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | › OPERAS Norway - Creating a Seamless Research Infrastructure - Markus Bang, › The Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills - Monica Roos, › The Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | › Building a Diamond OA Journal Ecosystem: A Community-Driven Approach to Journal Production and Dissemination at INRAE - Vincent Rappeneau, Direction pour la Science Ouverte - Aurelie Gauguery, Direction Scientifique Agriculture | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | › The centre Mersenne : a diamond open access publishing platform created by researchers for researchers - Murielle Serlet, Cellule de coordination documentaire nationale pour les mathématiques | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | › SeDOA – Servicestelle Diamond Open Access. Single point of contact for Diamond Open Access in Germany. German National Capacity Center in the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) and OPERAS national node - Michael Kaiser, Max Weber Stiftung - Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland - Stefanie Westphal, Max Weber Stiftung - Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland, Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | › The next phase of Open Research Europe (ORE): Towards a collective, community-led, scholarly publishing future - Johan Rooryck, Open Scholarly Communication in the European Research Aerea for Social Sciences and humanities - Pierre Mounier, Open Scholarly Communication in the European Research Aerea for Social Sciences and humanities, OpenEdition Center | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | › GRAPHIA: Advancing SSH Knowledge through a Collaborative Knowledge Graph Ecosystem - Ursula Rabar, Open Scholarly Communication in the European Research Aerea for Social Sciences and humanities | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | › Find out more about the national community for UK members of OPERAS! - Anna Hughes, Jisc | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | › OPERAS-NL and the Dutch Research Landscape - Graham Stone, OAPEN Foundation | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | › Polishing Norwegian diamonds: A collaboration between institutional publishing services - Anne-Inger Hellekjær, Oslo Metropolitan University - Aysa Ekanger, Uit The Arctic University of Norway | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | › Editorial Autonomy Within Institutional Publishing Platform: a case study of University of Zadar - Ivana Moric Filipovic, University of Zadar - Marta Ivanovic, University of Zadar | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | › Strengthening OPERAS through interoperable services and community-driven observatories - Marta Caradonna, CNR ILIESI | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | › Shaping Sustainable Diamond Open Access through the European Diamond Capacity Hub - Papadopoulou Athina, Open Scholarly Communication in the European Research Aerea for Social Sciences and humanities - Johan Rooryck, Open Scholarly Communication in the European Research Aerea for Social Sciences and humanities | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | › Discovering Knowledge Across Domains. The LUMEN Project - Léa Foumany, Max Weber Stiftung - Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland - Sona Arasteh, Max Weber Stiftung - Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland, Open Scholarly Communication in the European Research Aerea for Social Sciences and humanities | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | › The Polish Way to Diamond OA: Building a Sustainable Ecosystem through Community, Infrastructure, and Policy | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | › Museum Collections as Data Infrastructures: Boundary Objects for Open Science - Marta Świetlik, Digital Humanities Centre IBL PAN - Gabriela Manista, Digital Humanities Centre IBL PAN | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | › Smart Connections: Towards an Integrated Publication Infrastructure in the Netherlands - Susanne Van Rijn, Erasmus University Rotterdam - Margreet Nieborg, University of Groningen [Groningen] | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | › NeST - An integrated platform for easily creating FAIR-savvy SSH Digital Editions - Luca De Santis, Net7 - Chiara Aiola, Net7 | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | › A scholar-driven AI notebook for assisted and transparent research - Luca De Santis, Net7 - Stefano De Paoli, Abertay University | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | › RDMC-SSH: Research Data Management Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities - Tomás Alves, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa | |
| 19:30 - 21:00 | Reception (Museum of Warsaw - Courtyard Lapidarium) |
Thursday, May 21, 2026
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | The Fault Lines of Open Science: Power, Plurality, and the Struggle for Inclusive Knowledge (Staszic Palace - Adam Mickiewicz Hall (144)) | (+) |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | › Open Science under tension. Conflicts and blind spots in the French Social Sciences and Humanities - Ioanna Faïta, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - Faculté des sciences, Aix-Marseille Université - Faculté des Sciences | |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | › Open Science timeline: a participatory exercise - Smaniotto Alessia, Open Scholarly Communication in the European Research Aerea for Social Sciences and humanities, École des hautes études en sciences sociales | |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | › Open Science and Epistemic Inequality: Muslim Knowledge Production in European Research Infrastructures after 9/11 - Haris bin Aziz, Independent Researcher | |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | › Multilingualism and AI: a Common(s) Challenge - Susanna Fiorini, Open Scholarly Communication in the European Research Aerea for Social Sciences and humanities - Émilie Paquin, Université de Montréal [Montréal] | |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Collaborative open research in practice: perspectives from cross-partner work in GRAPHIA (Staszic Palace - Hall of Mirrors (164)) | (+) |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | › Collaborative open research in practice: perspectives from cross-partner work in GRAPHIA - Crystal Silver, Abertay University - Magdalena Wnuk, IBL-PAN - Matteo Romanello, Odoma - Ursula Rabar, Open Scholarly Communication in the European Research Aerea for Social Sciences and humanities | |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Coffee break (Staszic Palace - Stanisław Staszic Hall (166)) | |
| 10:15 - 11:15 | Advancing Canada's Diamond Open Access Infrastructure (Staszic Palace - Hall of Mirrors (164)) | (+) |
| 10:15 - 11:15 | › Advancing Canada's Diamond Open Access Infrastructure - Jeanette Hatherill, Coalition Publica - 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 | |
| 10:15 - 11:15 | Infrastructures in the Making: Local Experiments and Systemic Change in Open Science (Staszic Palace - Adam Mickiewicz Hall (144)) | (+) |
| 10:15 - 11:15 | › Local infrastructures as boundary objects: building a non-proprietary Open Science framework at the University of Milan - Manfredini Carolina, Università degli Studi di Milano | |
| 10:15 - 11:15 | › Implementing Open Peer Review in SSH Diamond Journals: Structural Challenges and Proposed Solutions - Rooryck Johan, Open Scholarly Communication in the European Research Aerea for Social Sciences and humanities - Pierre Mounier, Open Scholarly Communication in the European Research Aerea for Social Sciences and humanities | |
| 10:15 - 11:15 | › The technical path to transparency: systematizing data services in the OPERAS ecosystem - Maxim Kupreyev, Open Scholarly Communication in the European Research Aerea for Social Sciences and humanities | |
| 10:15 - 11:15 | › "Thinkering” with Digital Research Infrastructures for Open Science in Humanities - Tugce Karatas, C²DH, Université du Luxembourg - Elisabeth Guerard, C²DH, Université du Luxembourg | |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Break (Staszic Palace - Stanisław Staszic Hall (166)) | |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | European Regions in Action for Diamond OA – the EDCH National Capacity Centres (Staszic Palace - Adam Mickiewicz Hall (144)) | |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | The Dawning of a New ERA: What could the European Research Area Act do for Open Science (Infrastructures)? (Staszic Palace - Hall of Mirrors (164)) - Stephen Wyber (Director of Policy and Advocacy, IFLA, KR21 Management Committee) | (+) |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | › The Dawning of a New ERA: What could the European Research Area Act do for Open Science (Infrastructures)? - Maria Drabczyk, Centrum Cyfrowe, Knowledge Rights 21 | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch (Staszic Palace - Stanisław Staszic Hall (166)) | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Keynote (Staszic Palace - Hall of Mirrors (164)) - Anna Wałek | |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Break (Staszic Palace - Stanisław Staszic Hall (166)) | |
| 15:15 - 16:15 | SSH services beyond SSH: how LUMEN's outcomes can improve cross-disciplinary and cross-domain data findability and (re)use (Staszic Palace - Hall of Mirrors (164)) | (+) |
| 15:15 - 16:15 | › SSH services beyond SSH: how LUMEN's outcomes can improve cross-disciplinary and cross-domain data findability and (re)use - Carol Delmazo, Open Scholarly Communication in the European Research Aerea for Social Sciences and humanities - Fotis Mystakopoulos, Open Scholarly Communication in the European Research Aerea for Social Sciences and humanities - Julien Homo, Foxcub - Luca De Santis, Net7 - Christelle Pierkot, IR Data Terra | |
| 15:15 - 16:15 | Organizing Knowledge in the Open Science Ecosystem: Metadata, Data Citation, and Trust Frameworks (Staszic Palace - Adam Mickiewicz Hall (144)) | (+) |
| 15:15 - 16:15 | › Metadata Quality as a Shared Effort: Collaborative Innovation for Discoverability and Bibliodiversity - Wiktor Florian, OAPEN Foundation - Anna Wałek, OAPEN Foundation | |
| 15:15 - 16:15 | › Fostering a Culture of Data Citation through Practical, Multi-Stakeholder Recommendations across the Research Ecosystem - Irena Vipavc Brvar, ADP - Social Science Data Archives | |
| 15:15 - 16:15 | › Maintaining a Trusted Ecosystem of Multi-Party Data via Trust Indicators and Accountability Mechanisms - Christina Drummond, University of North Texas | |
| 15:15 - 16:15 | › Organizing Documents vs. Organizing Knowledge Production: Libraries and Research Infrastructures in the OPERAS Ecosystem - Katarzyna Materska, University of Silesia in Katowice, Institute of Culture Studies | |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Break (Staszic Palace - Stanisław Staszic Hall (166)) | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Closing Remarks (Staszic Palace - Hall of Mirrors (164)) |