Conference Agenda

This EERA session picks up on current developments under the name Open Science. The open movement and digitalization in scholarship are promoting a cultural shift in research towards accessibility, reusability and participation (UNESCO 2021). Open science has become an umbrella term for these developments. Open access, open data and open metrics are just some of the terms used.

While for decades scholarship did not need to review its basic infrastructures that supported and stabilised its research and scholarly communication some fundamental shifts are taking place. It is time to discuss, reflect and articulate our views and ideas about our scientific practice. Open Science offers this, but it encounters heterogeneous epistemic cultures and different national and institutional manifestations. Thus, Open Access and its changing funding model in educational research meets a bibliodiverse publication landscape, and open data meets heterogeneous epistemological practices (Rummler/Schindler 2018, Zee 2018, Dijk et al. 2021, Schindler et al. 2020, Krammer/Svecnik 2020). Therefore, open science needs to be adapted to the cultures and practices of educational research and its privileges and inequalities need to be balanced.

EERA has initiated a process to discuss and adjust open science to our heterogeneous practices and needs. At the EERA Council meeting and the Link Convenors networking seminar, we discussed Open Science and the specificities of different countries and research fields. The panel discussion aims to open up this process and invites you to participate and discuss initial ideas for an open research agenda at EERA. The panel discussion will start with a short introduction to the Open Science discourse (10 minutes), followed by a presentation of the draft Open Research Agenda at EERA (10 minutes). Marit Honerød Hoveid will then moderate the panel discussion, outlining various aspects of Open Science: Klaus Rummler addresses the topic of Open Access, Paulína Koršňáková addresses (open) research data, Christoph Schindler addresses open scientific information and Maria Figueiredo addresses the role that EERA can play. After short opening statements on each open science aspect, some questions will guide the panel discussion. To open the discussion, 30 minutes will be reserved for audience participation. The panel discussion will end with a short summary.

Please feel free to add your thoughts, ideas and questions before and during the session to this etherpad at:

https://yopad.eu/p/EERA-Open-Science-Session