SCOAP³ is hosting its annual online Forum on Wednesday June 18th 2025: an open event presenting the new SCOAP3 contract structure and the Open Science elements evaluation. 

The Forum also offers an opportunity to ask questions, and provide feedback to representatives of the SCOAP³ international governance and the operations team at CERN.

The forum is open to everyone from institutions participating in SCOAP³ and from the wider community. 

Reflecting the worldwide SCOAP³ partnership, the Forum will be held in two identical webinar sessions to allow participation from Asia and the Pacific in the late afternoon; from Europe and Africa in either the morning or afternoon; and from the Americas in the morning.

Session 1 (Asia Pacific late afternoon / Europe morning)
Duration: 90 minutes
Start time: 5:00pm AEST / 4:00pm JST&KST / 3:00pm CST / 9:00am CET / 8:00am BST

Sessions 2 (Europe afternoon / America morning)
Duration: 90 minutes
Start time: 5:00pm CET / 4:00pm BST / 11:00am EST / 9:00am MST / 8:00am PST

For each session, the program will be as follows: 

• General introduction (Ianko Lopez, Consortio Madrono, Spain, chair of SCOAP3 forum) - 10 min

• SCOAP3 Phase 4 contract structure and OS elements (Anne Gentil-Beccot, CERN SCOAP3 team) - 20 min

• Results of the first evaluation (Pia Kretschmar, CERN SCOAP3 team) - 10 min

• A SCOAP3 partner perspective (Anna Vernon and Charles Brophy, JISC, UK) - 20 min

• CrossRef’s perspective (To be confirmed) - 10 min

• Moderated Q&A

Online access is available from the Zoom link available below.