FOR2026: Infrastructures

The FOR2026 Conference -- The Future of Open Research: Reliable, Responsible, Equitable -- was held in Munich from 4 to 6 May, 2026. 

The full conference programme may be found here: https://opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-conference/for2026-program/

The future of open research is uncertain. On the one hand, decades of activism and institutional support have placed the value and significance of intelligent strategies and formats for open research (and its dissemination) beyond doubt. Openness is central to the development of trustworthy, accountable, collaborative, and socially engaged knowledge. On the other hand, open research measures need to be tailored to diverse research conditions around the globe and across domains, which in turn requires substantial investment, local engagement, responsiveness to the ethical and social dimensions of inquiry, and attention to diversity, equity, and inclusion. 

The conference brought together scholars, activists, and policymakers to consider this challenging landscape and discuss the future of open research. The goal was to facilitate the development of open research practices explicitly geared to serve the public interest, which involves interrogating what may constitute that ‘public interest’ to different audiences and in different locations around the world. 

This upload contains slides from presentations in Session 1 -- Infrastructures -- held on Monday, 4 May.

Chair: Paul Trauttmansdorff (Technical University of Munich).

Full details of presentations are as follows:

1. “Towards a political economy of open science infrastructure.”
Sarah Davies (University of Vienna, Austria), Laura Koesten (Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and University of Vienna, Austria), Kathleen Gregory (Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands)

2. “UB Discover – making research (results) open (again).”
Alexander Berg-Weiß, Martin Spenger, Vanessa Finger, Andreas Frech, Jaime Penagos, Laura Meier (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany)

3. “Resilience through relationships: Sustaining open science infrastructures.”
Kathleen Gregory, Louise Bezuidenhout, Andrew Hoffman (Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands)

4. “Rise-open: Building a repository of psychological instruments and fostering a culture of open science in North Macedonia.”
Katerina Naumova, Vaska Leshoska, Daniela Nedelkova (Institute of Psychology, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, North Macedonia)

5. “Open Infrastructures for Responsible Research Assessment: From Principles to Practice through MyResearchFolio powered by OpenAIRE.”
Angeliki Tzouganatou, Zenia Xenou, Giulia Malaguarnera, Natalia Manola (OpenAIRE, Athens, Greece)

6. “The place of equity and justice in valuing OS in institutional policies, an overview of 23 pilots in the Netherlands.”
Andrea Reyes Elizondo, Inge van der Weijden (Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands)

7. “Open, careful and community-led: infrastructures to support Humanities and Social Sciences in hostile times.”
Lucía Céspedes (Érudit, Montréal, Canada; École de bibliométrie et sciences de l’information, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada), Suzanne Beth (Érudit, Montréal, Canada)

8. “Openness as “(un)controlled exposure”: interrogating responsibility, directionality and democracy in living labs.”
Julia Backhaus, Barbara Grimpe, Stefan Böschen (RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany)

9. “GATE as a Living Infrastructure for reliable and equitable Open Science?”
Marie Alavi, Julia Priess-Buchheit (Kiel University, Kiel, Germany), Anika Müller-Karabil (Bremen University, Bremen, Germany)