Open science and open scholarship are the enabling environment through which all Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) may be accomplished. However, there are a variety of approaches to the adoption and evaluation of open science and open scholarship; approaches that reflect a global imbalance in research and development and, in some cases, further grow and concretize such divides. UNESCO’s  Open Science Outlook 1  warns that the “cultural shift to open science will only be possible with adequate monitoring of its impacts, including its possible unintended consequences for science and/or society.” 

It is within this context that the United Nations’ Dag Hammarskjöld Library convenes an official side event to the  High-Level Political Forum . The UN Open Science Conference, convened biennially by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library and its partners, has repeatedly heard calls for academic institutions to move their focus away from metrics and instead return to their role as agents of social change, with research agendas driven by “global relevance rather than journal visibility.” How do policies, established to globally advance open science and the SDGs, impact local evaluation frameworks for research institutions? How do they impact individual researchers and their work? Do they help or hinder achievement of the SDGs? 

Speakers include:

Dr. Suchiradipta Bhattacharjee, International Water Management Institute

Dr. Yensi Flores-Bueso, Global Young Academy

Dr. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Gadd, Loughborough University, Coalition on Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA)

Dr. Geeta Swamy, Duke University, Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship (HELIOS)

Dr. Giannis Tsakonas, University of Patras, LIBER Europe

Moderator: Mx. Meg Wacha, Dag Hammarskjöld Library

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