On 26 November 2026, from 14:00 to 15:25, the University of Debrecen and Pro-M Zrt. will jointly host the 14th Hungarian Open Science Forum, an online event focusing on current national and international developments in open science.
The planned topics include the latest developments in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), current updates on the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) initiative, and the increasingly challenging issue of bot traffic affecting research repositories, along with possible ways of addressing it. In addition, the Hungarian data steward community will report on the latest professional developments.
At the Forum, Júlia Egyed-Gergely (ELTE Centre for Social Sciences) will also share the key messages and findings of the ARP 2026 conference, entitled Available in the long term? – Data repositories and research data: sustainability, security, and innovation.
The provisional programme of the event:
- 14:00–14:05: Welcome and introductions
- 14:05–14:25: Alex Ioannidis (Zenodo) – Feeding the Machines Without Starving the Humans: Managing Bot Traffic at Zenodo
- 14:25–14:30: Q&A
- 14:30–14:40: Júlia Egyed-Gergely (ARP) – Is It Accessible in the Long Run? – Key Takeaways from the 2026 ARP Conference
- 14:40–14:45: Q&A
- 14:45–15:00: Krisztina Szepesvári (HUN-REN) – CoARA: Latest Developments
- 15:00–15:05: Q&A
- 15:05–15:20: Dávid Kempfner, János Mohácsi and Zoltán Pompor (Pro-M Zrt.) – Caught Up in the World of Data, Services and Users – A Report from the EOSC Symposium
- 15:20–15:25: Q&A
Event moderator: Judit Fazekas-Paragh (University and National Library of the University of Debrecen – DEENK)
Registration is required to attend the event.
Further information and the registration link are available on the event webpage.
Thumbnail image: From the event webpage