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From 8 to 9 October 2025, The Open Science Conference 2025, hosted by Leibniz Strategy Forum Open Science and organised under the lead of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics welcomed over 200 participants from 27 countries (on-site and online). This year's conference explored the relationship between Open Science and Artificial Intelligence.
The GATE team offered an engaging and collaborative GATE Solution Session. Over 40 participants from research, education, libraries, data and software professions, as well as from policy and funding institutions followed GATE's invitation and joined the GATE Session to explore how Open Science can thrive at the intersection with Artificial Intelligence.
The session drew on materials and data from the Open Science Learning GATE (GATE), which provides an infrastructure for continuous knowledge exchange on Open Science, connecting diverse stakeholder groups (such as educators, researchers, (data) infrastructure providers, policymakers and funders) and offering guidance on current developments.
Participants co-created target-group-specific actions to build ‘Open Science capacity in seven multidisciplinary groups, using GATE-provided personas (e.g., early-career researcher, programme officer) and guiding thoughts (e.g., bias-free AI, privacy) to focus their discussions.
The groups proposed conceptual directions and identified needs rather than ready-to-implement solutions, highlighting priorities that cut across communities. These included building trust and transparency, embedding Open Science early in research training, promoting flexible, discipline-sensitive frameworks, and ensuring responsible use of AI tools. Researchers emphasised integrating Open Science into training and aligning motivation with incentives. Librarians and educators highlighted their bridging role, supporting practical guidelines and ethical AI use. Technical experts focused on reproducibility and reliable infrastructures, while policy and funding actors stressed coherence, feasibility, and sustained support.
The session reinforced that advancing Open Science in an AI-driven (research) landscape requires collaborative action across all communities. By leveraging the mission and resources of GATE, stakeholders can connect practice with policy and co-create strategies that advance Open Science and keep it both principled and practical.
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