ACTION REQUIRED: REGISTRATIONS ARE OPEN

FOR2026 Update: Registration is now open. New bank transfer details and payment reference codes are available below.

You can finalize your registration by transferring the registration fee to the conference bank account (details below) and including your personal payment reference in the bank transfer. Every submitter has received these instructions via email from the email address no-reply@oxfordabstracts.com. Please rest assured that this is not spam, and that communications related to the conference are being sent by this address (please adjust your spam filters accordingly).

Please transfer the fee to:

Account holder: Technische Universität München
IBAN: DE10 7005 0000 0000 0248 66
BIC/SWIFT: BYLADEMMXXX
Bank name: Bayerische Landesbank
Payment deadline: 31 January 2026 – Early bird registrations

When making the transfer, please use the following payment reference format so that your payment can be correctly assigned:

Registration Type	Payment Reference Format
Early Bird	2050.0113.0219_LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME_FOR2026_EB_ID0XX
Late	2050.0113.0219_LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME_FOR2026_LATE_ID0XX

Replace LASTNAME and FIRSTNAME with your own name in capital letters (no special characters) and ID0XX with your individual registration ID as assigned during abstract submission. Your registration will be confirmed once the payment has been received in the conference bank account. You are kindly invited to send a copy of your payment confirmation to for2026@opensciencestudies.eu to help us verify your registration more quickly.

Conference registration fees: In-person attendance

Category	Early-bird registrations	Late registrations
full-time, ongoing positions	€ 180	€ 250
students and unemployed	€ 80	€ 120
low/middle income countries*	€ 80	€ 120

We call for contributions by researchers across all fields of knowledge, including the arts and humanities, policy-makers interested in research and development, representatives of scholarly and commercial institutions involved in research, and civil society associations engaged in knowledge production. Themes may include, but not be limited to:

Historical, philosophical, and social studies of open research and its implementation
Ethics and research integrity in the context of open research
Bibliometric and other data-intensive investigations of open research
The use of AI in support of socially responsive and responsible forms of open research
Legal perspectives on open research implementations across different settings
Training and capacity building for responsive and responsible open research
Infrastructures and tools supporting responsive and responsible open research
Policy-making initiatives and recommendations for equitable open research
Contributions from the arts and humanities to represent open research in alternative formats

Contribution formats

Contributions may consist of Abstracts for individual papers (including by large groups of co-authors where appropriate) and Posters. The conference will be single-stream, so we will not have the opportunity to welcome panel proposals; we ask research groups and projects to please bring their respective experiences within one talk, delivered jointly by a maximum of three individuals.

Abstracts for both papers and posters are expected to be a maximum of 500 words and should be accompanied by a description of the authors’ background of a maximum of 500 words. When submitting your proposal, you can choose whether you wish to be considered for a talk, a poster, or both. The conference language is English. Session presenters of accepted proposals are expected to register for the conference (in-person attendance). Presentations will be recorded for posting online after the conference.

Submission

We use Oxford Abstracts as a submission system. Please submit your contributions using the button below by 30 September 2025.

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Important Dates

Abstract submission deadline: 30 September 2025
Notification of acceptance/rejection: 31 October 2025
Deadline for early bird registration fees: 31 January 2026
Conference date: 4-6 May 2026, Munich, Germany

Accessibility of materials

It is expected that authors publish materials such as posters and presentation slides as well as session outcomes at least licensed as CC-BY 4.0 or CC-BY-SA 4.0 on Zenodo (you may reserve a DOI before) and make it available to the Future of Open Research Community (coming soon!).

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