Events: Open Science & Economics

Conferences, seminars, webinars, online panels and more: Here you will find relevant events from the fields of Open Science and business studies and economics. Are you an event organizer yourself and would like to have your event added to the calendar? Don’t hesitate, please contact us.

You can find more dates for events relating to business studies and economics in the calendar of the ZBW search portal EconBiz.

2026 OEGlobal Conference

7. October 2026 – 9. October 2026
Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA), Online
Organised by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Conference Theme: Come Invent With Us! Innovating Open Practices to Uphold and Uplift Knowledge as a Public Good. We recognize that invention is most powerfully sparked when different perspectives and practices intersect. Therefore, we look forward to a program that integrates the arts and sciences; Indigenous and Western knowledge systems; global and local viewpoints; research-based and lived experiences; and other open movements (open source software, open data, open access, open science) and open education. 

IOSP 2026

12. October 2026 – 15. October 2026
Leiden (Netherlands)
Organised by: Institute of Open Science Practices

IOSP is built on a single working principle: the people who depend on open science infrastructure and the people building it should be in the same room, working on the same problems, long enough to make real progress. This year, across the two main working days, we build a participant-owned data storage consortium, publish datasets, code, and knowledge objects to it, create our own algorithms that assess the trust and value of what's published, and assemble community-owned collaboratives that route funding based on their interpretation of that analysis. The pieces of open science already exist. It's time they were woven into a coherent system.

NATIONAL OPEN SCIENCE Festival

14. October 2026
Delft (Netherlands)
Organised by: Open Science Community Maastricht, Open Science Community Parkstad

MEET | SHARE | INSPIRE | CARE

EOSC Symposium 2026

14. October 2026 – 16. October 2026
Florence (Italy)
Organised by: eosc

As the EOSC flagship event, the Symposium annually brings together the entire stakeholder community, including researchers, policy-makers,  organisations and infrastructures to share and celebrate the latest developments around EOSC and the EOSC Federation. Be sure to save the dates in your calendar. Further details coming soon!

Guidance on Using CC Licenses in the Age of AI – Session A

14. October 2026
Online
Organised by: Creative Commons

CC licenses have long served as a legally enforceable tool for digital sharing–focused on open sharing in the public interest. With increasingly widespread machine use of content through AI, we have seen an increase in enclosure and less permissive sharing as a response. In this webinar we will speak about how open sharing remains essential to the public-interest work of increasing access to knowledge and culture. We will start with a short presentation on the guidance and how it impacts different sectors like Education, Science and Culture. We will then take questions from the audience and hear about any feedback you might have. This guidance is just one part of our ongoing work, where we will be continuing to work towards tools that give more agency, and clear rules for the AI era.

Thematic language data

16. October 2026
Online
Organised by: SSH Open Marketplace Editorial Board (SSHOMP)

Das SSH Open Marketplace Editorial Board lädt 2026 zu einer neuen Online-Reihe ein, in der zentrale Aspekte rund um digitale Forschungspraktiken, FAIR- und CARE-Prinzipien sowie den strategischen Einsatz des SSH Open Marketplace im Forschungsalltag im Mittelpunkt stehen. Anhand praxisnaher Beispiele erhalten die Teilnehmenden Einblicke in Tools, Workflows und Kurationsprozesse, die den Umgang mit Forschungsdaten erleichtern und deren Sichtbarkeit und Nachnutzbarkeit stärken. Die Reihe eröffnet zugleich Raum für Austausch: Erfahrungen aus laufenden Projekten, Bedarfe aus der Community und mögliche Beiträge zum SSH Open Marketplace können gemeinsam reflektiert und weitergedacht werden.

Real or Fake? Hands-On Workshop on How to Avoid Cloned Journals and Predatory Publishers

20. October 2026
Online
Organised by: Servicestelle Open-Access-Saar

Choosing the right journal for your publication can be challenging. One reason for this is fraudulent publishers who try to charge you for services and a reputation that they do not provide, and who often disappear along with their publications. Even something that looks like a renowned journal from e.g. Elsevier/Springer can be a fake website. When looking for sources for your research, it can be also of value to see if the articles come from a trusted source. This webinar aims to help researchers recognise and avoid scientific fraud and misleading publications. It will cover the following topics: Predatory publishers - Hijacked (cloned) journals - Mirror journals – legal but confusing - Paper mills - Checking for retracted publications: PubPeer for Browser and Zotero - Tools helping to choose a journal: Think.Check.Submit, B!SON, oa.finder.

Academic SEO – Bessere Sichtbarkeit für wissenschaftliche Publikationen

22. October 2026
Online
Organised by: DGI

Die Auffindbarkeit wissenschaftlicher Publikationen ist essenziell für die Sichtbarkeit und Zitierbarkeit von Artikeln, Büchern und weiteren wissenschaftlichen Veröffentlichungsformaten. Dieser Kurs vermittelt Strategien, mit denen Forschende durch Academic Search Engine Optimization (Academic SEO) die Sichtbarkeit ihrer Forschung signifikant steigern können. Es werden konkrete Optimierungsmöglichkeiten für Titel, Abstracts und Schlagwörter vorgestellt, die sowohl auf Suchmaschinen als auch auf Leserinnen und Leser ausgerichtet sind. Besonders vor dem Hintergrund der stets steigenden Verwendung von Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) in akademischen Suchmaschinen gewinnt beispielsweise die zielgerichtete Gestaltung von Abstracts zunehmend an Bedeutung. Im Workshop sollen die Teilnehmer:innen anhand eigener Beispiele die Optimierung üben und mit Hilfe von bereitgestellten KI-Prompts die Optimierung mit generativer KI austesten.

Open Education Conference

27. October 2026 – 29. October 2026
Online
Organised by: Open Education Association

The Open Education Conference is an annual convening for sharing and learning about open educational resources, open pedagogy, and open education initiatives. This engaging event brings together over 1,600 educators and open education advocates in-person and online to collaborate, support, and drive strategies for education that are accessible, affordable, and reflective of the learners they serve.

Secure AI Services for Research and how to Make your Data Depositable in a FAIR way

27. October 2026
Online
Organised by: University of Mannheim

This course introduces participants to open-weight model services, ChatAI (GWDG Chatbot) and maKI (Uni Mannheim API service) available for researchers. It explains how to gain access to these services and demonstrates common use cases such as brainstorming, trans­cription, summarization, and using AI as a sparring partner for research and writing. The session also explores the practical application of AI for research data management. Using a metadata schema – such as DDI for the social sciences or a schema from BARTOC – as an example, participants will see how a chatbot can assist in creating and completing metadata records. Through hands-on examples, the course discusses both the potential and the limitations of using AI to support metadata creation.

ORCID – The benefits, creation, and maintenance of your own research profile

28. October 2026
Online
Organised by: FDM.Thüringen

For several years now, the ORCID iD has become the standard for researchers to identify themselves using a persistent identifier. This presentation explores the benefits of the iD and the best ways to maintain an ORCID profile. It also covers data import and export, as well as the available interfaces.

Argos Community Call

28. October 2026
Online
Organised by: OpenAIRE

OpenAIRE is running a series of community calls for ARGOS to support all researchers in meeting their Horizon Europe requirements by creating FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) DMPs. Similarly, it supports all research performing and funding organisations to orchestrate their data services around ARGOS and connect data workflows contributing to interconnected Research Data Management ecosystems. These calls offer the opportunity to discover ARGOS novelties and learn how to benefit from them in your practice, share feedback and discuss the future of DMPs as FAIR and machine actionable outputs, i.e. as complete outputs that bring validated information, qualified references and automations to the table to assist the processes of collecting, documenting and publishing your data.

Einfacher wissenschaftlich Arbeiten mit Literaturverwaltungsprogrammen

30. October 2026
Online
Organised by: Sächsische Landesbibliothek — Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB)

Der Kurs will Sie ermutigen, schon zu Beginn Ihres Studiums, spätestens jedoch beim Erstellen der ersten wissenschaftlichen Arbeit, ein Literaturverwaltungsprogramm zu verwenden. Inhaltlich bieten wir Ihnen einen ersten Überblick über die Funktionsvielfalt der Programme (Literatur erfassen, Wissen organisieren, korrekt zitieren, mit anderen kollaborieren), häufig genutzte Anwendungen, Kriterien, mit denen Sie das passende Programm für sich finden. An den Beispielen Zotero, Mendeley und Citavi zeigen wir Ihnen, welche Stärken und Schwächen die Programme haben.

Fachübergreifende Einführung ins Forschungsdatenmanagement

3. November 2026
Bochum (Germany)
Organised by: Ruhr Universität Bochum

Forschungsdaten sind die Grundlage für wissenschaftlichen Fortschritt und sind von essentieller Bedeutung für Publikationen. Sie haben in Ihrem Forschungsalltag sicher schon erlebt, dass wichtige Daten für Ihre Publikation plötzlich unauffindbar waren, in verschiedenen Versionen vorlagen oder sogar versehentlich überschrieben wurden. Solche Situationen zu vermeiden, ist einer von vielen Aspekten eines strukturierten Forschungsdatenmanagements (FDM). Ein gut organisiertes FDM hilft Ihnen (wesentlich) dabei, Ihre Arbeit nachhaltig zu sichern. In diesem Kurs lernen Sie was FDM ist und warum es für Ihre wissenschaftliche Arbeit hilfreich ist. Die FAIR-Prinzipien (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) zu verstehen und wie Sie diese in der Praxis anwenden. Ihre Forschungsdaten effizient zu strukturieren, organisieren und zu verwalten. Wie Sie kollaborativ mit mehreren Projektpartner:innen an Forschungsdaten arbeiten. Welche Tools Ihnen den Umgang mit Forschungsdaten im Arbeitsalltag erleichtern.

Open Science Meeting:

4. November 2026
Delft (Netherlands)
Organised by: NWO, Open Science NL

Connecting open science and open education through digital interactive, executable narratives. Meeting on the use of Jupyter Book for Scientific and Educational publishing. We aim to enable participants to use Jupyter Book through hands-on experience, while building a shared understanding of its capabilities and potential applications in research.

OER in teaching design: basics and practical applications

4. November 2026
Online
Organised by: Technical Information Library

During the workshop, you will first learn about the most important (legal) principles for the use and creation of open educational materials. The core of the workshop is the practical design of open teaching/learning scenarios. Using real use cases, you will discuss the opportunities and challenges of open teaching and learn how you can integrate OER into the phases of lesson planning, implementation and follow-up in a meaningful way. You will also get to know the functions and features of our portal www.twillo.de a little better.

Science slam on research data management – going wild with AI

5. November 2026
Berlin (Germany)
Organised by: NFDI4DataScience (NFDI4DS), Fraunhofer FOKUS, Weizenbaum Insitut

Science meets Comedy meets AI meets Chaos — and you are right in the middle of it. You wonder what happens with the data in research? You think that is a rather boring topic and completely impossible to explain at a party? This year, we’re taking it one step further: our slammers use artificial intelligence as a genuine creative partner and collaborator. Every speaker teams up with an AI tool to engage in a process of real co-creation: they feed it their slam idea, push it somewhere unexpected, and slam what comes back.

Open Access: Ein kurzer Überblick

5. November 2026
Online
Organised by: Ruhr Universität Bochum

Open Access ist ein zentraler Aspekt von Open Science und bezeichnet den freien, uneingeschränkten und unwiderruflichen Zugang zu wiederverwendbaren wissenschaftlichen Publikationen im Internet. Diese Veranstaltung bietet Ihnen eine aktuelle und praxisorientierte Einführung in das Thema Open Access: Warum ist Open Access wichtig und welche Vorteile bietet es? Welche Möglichkeiten gibt es, im Open-Access zu publizieren? Worauf sollten Sie besonders achten und welche Fördermöglichkeiten stehen Ihnen zur Verfügung?

Darf ich das? Texte, Bilder und Videos in eigenen Lehrveranstaltungen & Publikationen verwenden

6. November 2026
Online
Organised by: Ruhr Universität Bochum


Was ist erlaubt, wenn ich Bilder und Videos für eigene Lehrmaterialien und Publikationen verwende? Welche urheberrechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen müssen beachtet werden? In dieser kurzen Einführung erhalten Sie Antworten auf diese Fragen und erhalten eine Einführung in die für die Hochschule urheberrechtlich relevanten Aspekte unter Einbezug konkreter Fallbeispiele.

ReSeeD – Managing, archiving, and publishing research data

9. November 2026
Online
Organised by: Ruhr Universität Bochum

ReSeeD, the central research data repository of Ruhr University Bochum, offers a comprehensive infrastructure for research data management. The repository covers various use cases (e.g. metadata assignment, role and rights management, collaborative work) and is suitable for different types of data. In this workshop, you will explore the basic functionalities of ReSeeD - how to manage and store your data in ReSeeD - from the creation of datasets, collaboration and sharing of datasets, to their archiving and publication - You will gain hands-on experience with ReSeeD, allowing you to directly apply what you've learned.

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