This conference brings together scholars, activists, and policymakers to consider this challenging landscape and discuss the future of open research. Our goal is 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. A central element for our discussions will be the development of a Munich Manifesto for Equitable Open Research, detailing ways to utilise open research to foster reliable, responsible, and equitable forms of inquiry. A draft text of the manifesto will be circulated two weeks before the conference to all participants, and one session of the conference will be dedicated to discussing and finalising the declaration and its possible signatories.
GYA alumna Sabina Leonelli (Technical University of Munich, Germany) is Chair of the Conference Organising Committee, and the GYA’s Open Science Group co-leads Stephanie Jurburg (German Centre for Environmental Research), Luisa Diele- Viegas (University of Mississippi, United States) and Oscar Xavier Guerrero Gutiérrez (Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del I.P.N., Mexico) are invited speakers.