Call for Speakers and Poster Presentations

The calls have ended. You can find the list of accepted contributions for the Call for Poster Presentations here. We further accepted the following talks for the Call for Speakers:

  • „Data Communities: Data Sharing from the Ground Up“
    Dr Danielle Cooper, Ithaka S+R (USA)
  • „Rewards and Incentives for Open Science: A global registry, a global collaboration“
    Hilary Hanahoe, Research Data Alliance (Italy/UK)
  • „Preregistration – How to bring transparency into animal research“
    Dr Céline Heinl, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) (Germany)
  • „Generation O – scaling open practices in Higher Education / How can we help “open-pioneers”, “-innovators” and “-activists” change the Higher Education System.“
    Marte Sybil Kessler, Stifterverband (Germany)
  • „Digital collaborations as an opportunity to strengthen engagement between various stakeholders internationally – the Sustainable Futures Academy“
    Dr Alina Loth, Berlin School of Public Engagement and Open Science / Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany)
  • „Leveraging Open Infrastructures in a locked-down-world: When the world is at home, how can we continue to support Open Science to ensure immediate digital access to research and education for all?“
    Vanessa Proudman, SPARC Europe (Netherlands)
  • „The Puzzle of Research Evaluation: Opportunities and obstacles on the way to full Open Scholarship“
    Clifford Tatum, Leiden University (Netherlands)
  • „The Journal of European Psychology Students – A decade of student-organised scientific publishing as peer-education“
    Leonhard Volz, Journal of European Psychology Students / University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
  • „Learnings on encouraging open data sharing in science with open source tools“
    Dr Lilly Winfree, Open Knowledge Foundation (USA/UK)

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This call invites the research community as well as further important stakeholders of the Open Science movement to submit an abstract for one of the following calls.

As the Open Science Conference 2021 will be an entirely online event, all poster presentations and talks will be given in a digital environment.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact osc2021@conftool.com.

Call for speakers

Carefully selected talks given by international experts are an essential part of the conference programme. Speakers are invited by the programme committee. With this call we invite you to apply for a talk at the conference. Talks should address Open Science aspects on a broader level and cover topics including (but not limited to):

  • Reflections on effects and impact of current crises on open research practices and science communication
  • Lessons learned from crises and approaches to sustainably ensure the opening of science in future
  • Resume on Open Science practices and their application and acceptance in scientific communities
  • Overview on existing research on the scientific benefit of Open Science practices and their impact in society such as coping with crises
  • Overview on Open Science education and science communication to different target groups in the broad public


Please submit your application as PDF including an outline of your talk and the benefit for the conference (not more than 500 words) as well as title, CV (including talks as invited speaker), affiliation, and contact details. Please note that a submission with more than one speaker is not possible.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the members of the programme committee. Authors of accepted applications will be invited to give an online talk at the conference. Talks can be pre-recorded, but speakers are expected to be available for questions. The application and talk must be in English. The presentation must be licensed at least as CC-BY 4.0 and will be published on Zenodo.

Please send your application as PDF document via ConfTool (requires free ConfTool account): https://www.conftool.com/osc2021

Important dates:

  • Abstract submission deadline: 9 October 2020
  • Notification of acceptance / rejection: 30 November 2020
  • Conference date: 17-19 February 2021, online conference

Call for poster presentations

We invite you to submit project presentations and other contributions covering topics including (but not limited to):

  • Empirical studies on the effects and impact of crises on open research practices and science communication
  • Recent innovations to support Open Science practices and their application and acceptance in scientific communities
  • Empirical studies and use cases about the scientific benefit of Open Science practices and their impact in society such as coping with crises
  • Best practices dealing with Open Science education and science communication to the broad public


Please submit your abstract as PDF which describes the main idea, the practical relevance, and its innovative, scientific, and/or societal impact. The abstract may not be longer than 500 words. To enable blind review the abstract must be submitted in a fully anonymous format so that the respective PDF (including metadata) does not contain any information that might reveal the  author´s identity, e.g., author name, project name, links to project websites, own publications. Submissions that are not in line with these conditions of anonymity will be rejected and excluded from the review.

All contributing authors should be added in the metadata of the submission system. There is a limit of two submissions per corresponding/first author.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the members of the programme committee and the review board. Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to present a poster at the conference. The poster session will take place in an appropriate digital environment. The abstract and poster must be submitted and presented in English.

To also contribute to the Open Science movement, the programme committee will publish the scientific justification for acceptance on the conference website. All accepted abstracts as well as corresponding posters will be displayed on the conference website and also be published on Zenodo. All materials must be licensed at least as CC-BY 4.0.

Please send your application as PDF document via ConfTool (requires free ConfTool account): https://www.conftool.com/osc2021

Important dates:

  • Abstract submission deadline: 9 October 2020
  • Notification of acceptance / rejection: 30 November 2020
  • Final submission of abstract: 11 December 2020
  • Final submission of poster: 05 February 2021
  • Conference date: 17-19 February 2021, online conference