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Open Access Week

To celebrate the International Open Access Week, the EUI Library organises every year a series of events with EUI departments and their members as well as EUI Alumni, to discuss and raise awareness on topics related to the value and practice of Openness in academia. Discussions also touch on funding opportunities to publish in Open Access and the importance of developing a researcher online identity and presence. This year's Open Access Week takes place 20-26 October 2025.

Download the Open Science Office Flyer for OAW 2025

What happens at the EUI?

29 September to 31 October | EUI campus and online

Walking exhibition "Who Owns Our Knowledge? Exploring Open Access through Voices of Change"

The exhibition is organised by the Library Open Science Office. View the programme of the exhibition. There is also the extended online version of the exhibition on this Library blog post.

Monday 6 October | 11.30 | Sala Triaria, Villa Schifanoia

Open Science at the EUI: Information Session and Exhibition Launch

In the framework of the international open access week held in October every year, Library Open Science office staff offer an information session to RSC fellows. The presentation will introduce key services, including the Library’s Transformative Agreements, Open Access publishing opportunities for the RSC, Cadmus, ORCID, and licensing options. This day also marks the opening of the walking exhibition "Who Owns Our Knowledge? Exploring Open Access through Voices of Change“ at Villa Schifanoia.

Tuesday 14 October | 13.00-14.00 | Badia canteen

Library Café on Open Access

Meet librarians and learn about books on and in Open Access. What EUI theses are available in Open Access? Which Books based on EUI theses are available in Open Access. And get a free coffee!

Wednesday 15 October | EUI campus

Departmental presentations on Open Access: LAW 09.30, and HEC 10.00

Presentations will introduce key services, including the Library’s Transformative Agreements, Open Access publishing opportunities, Cadmus, ORCID, and licensing options.

Thursday 16 October | 14.00-17.00 | online and streamed in EUI Library Stockholm Room

Open Access & Copyright in the Age of AI

Presentation and recordings now available in Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17397015

This European Project CIVICA seminar is organised by Bocconi Library & Archives in partnership with Hertie School Library in collaboration with the CIVICA network of universities.

It will examine the evolving relationship between Open Access (OA), copyright, and the growing influence of artificial intelligence (AI) on scholarly communication. As AI tools become more sophisticated in searching, analysing, and generating scholarly content, they bring new opportunities—but also raise complex legal and ethical questions. How does AI intersect with open access publishing? What are the implications of training AI on copyrighted materials? And how can we protect both authors’ rights and the principle of equitable access to knowledge in this evolving context? This workshop will explore the legal and practical challenges of opening research in an AI-driven world, highlighting how AI is transforming scholarly publishing practices, with a focus on access to literature, copyright compliance in AI training, and sustainable, forward-thinking solutions that support both academic integrity and technological innovation.

Programme

14:00 – 14:15 Greetings and introduction

14:15 – 14:45 “AI and open access: transforming the way we search for, analyse and publish academic literature” Christopher Landes (Hertie School)

14:45 – 15:15 "Understanding copyright in the age of AI: considerations for academic researchers" Christine Daoutis (University College London)

15:15 – 15:45 “Open Access and the Illusion of Lawful Use: Copyright Challenges in AI Training” Nicola Lucchi (Pompeu Fabra University)

15:45 – 16:00 Break

16:00 – 17:00 Round table: Nicolò Cavalli (Bocconi University), Joanna Bryson (Hertie School), Paola Corti (SPARC Europe)

Join us in the Library Stockholm room: please register for in-person attendance - or join by registering with Bocconi.

Monday 20-Friday 24 October | 09:00-18:00 | EUI Library entrance, Badia Fiesolana

Library Open Access information desk

During the week of 20 October, Library staff at the entrance will be there to answer your questions on Open Access. Check out Open Access information material and some gadgets!

Thursday 30 October | 14:00-16:15 | Conference Room, Villa la Fonte

FOSSR - Fostering Open Science in Social Science Research, funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP)

This event is organised by the Department of Economics.

Introduction to FOSSR by Dr. Antonio Zinilli (CNR-IRCrES)
Seminar 'Optimal Policy Learning in Stata/Python'by Dr. Giovanni Cerulli (CNR-IRCrES)

Funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan and coordinated by the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), the FOSSR project is building the first Italian Open Cloud for the Social Sciences. FOSSR provides a collaborative digital environment that simplifies and harmonises researchers’ access to social science data from three major European research infrastructures - CESSDA, RISIS, and SHARE - through innovative interfaces, tools, and services. A core mission of FOSSR is to develop advanced solutions for data collection, analysis, prediction, and policy learning, empowering more effective, data-driven socioeconomic research. Following an overview of FOSSR, the presentation will introduce the Policy Learning Platform (PLP) - one of the project’s flagship toolkits. The PLP enables researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to predict policy impacts and design evidence-based scenarios across a wide range of social domains. It aspires to become a key resource for bridging theory and practice in data-driven policy learning, promoting open science, while advancing both scientific excellence and social welfare.

Registration is mandatoryto secure a seat and comply with EUI rules and regulation.