In a press release issued on Monday, the organizers indicate that this is the first time in Switzerland that four academic institutions have come together to offer such an event. The program, entirely free and spread across different university sites, includes conferences, interactive workshops and plenary sessions.
Each day will focus on a specific facet of Open Science: free access to scientific publications (Open Access), sharing of raw research data (Open Research Data), making educational resources available (Open Educational Resources) and the active participation of non-experts in the research process (citizen science).
“Science is a collective quest and a common good and participants will examine how citizen and participatory sciences allow everyone to actively collaborate in the scientific process,” write the organizers about this last day, scheduled for September 5 at the Palais de Rumine.
The aim is also to “democratize the production and dissemination of knowledge” and to show how scientists and non-scientists can transform the relationship with knowledge.
