The International Open Access Week 2025, organised by SPARC in partnership with the Open Access Week Advisory Committee, will take place from 20th to 26th October. This year’s theme, “Who Owns Our Knowledge?”, invites us to reflect on ownership, access, and control in a world increasingly shaped by AI, data-driven discovery, and federated science.

To celebrate this global event, we invite you to join the OpenAIRE Knowledge Commons Café: Who Owns the Knowledge?, a two-part series of open conversations on trust, AI, and the future of open knowledge.

Part 1: Who Owns Our Knowledge in the Age of AI and Federated Science - 20 October 2025, 14:00–16:00 CEST (Register here)

As data and AI become integral to research, questions of rights, value, and governance are more relevant than ever.
This session builds on discussions from OSFair2025 and results from EOSC Beyond and LLMs4EU, exploring frameworks for rights metadata, licensing, and responsible reuse of research outputs.

Speakers:

Prodromos Tsiavos, Senior Legal and Policy Advisor, OpenAIRE
Melios Katsamakis, Technical Contributor – Rights Modelling & Open Science Infrastructures, OpenAIRE

Part 2: From Open Access to Open Agency - 23 October 2025, 16:00–17:00 CEST (Register here)

As discovery moves from repositories to chatbots, who controls the data that trains AI?
This interactive discussion explores how trusted, federated literature hubs can empower the research community to shape how scientific content is accessed, shared, and reused for AI training.Speakers:

Natalia Manola, CEO, OpenAIRE
Prodromos Tsiavos, Senior Legal and Policy Advisor, OpenAIRE