The Right to Participate In & Benefit from Science
From 16 to 18 October 2025, the 4th United Nations Open Science and Open Scholarship Conference will convene policymakers, IGO representatives, researchers, scholars, librarians, publishers, and civil society, both online and in person at the in Tokyo, Japan.
The Conference will serve as an urgent call to accelerate transformations in science and scholarship in alignment with the Pact for the Future, to map progress in national and international efforts towards opening the record of science, and to inspire collaborative actions and coalitions to expedite progress ensuring no country, community, or individual is left behind.
Organized by the UN Dag Hammarskj?ld Library of the Department of Global Communications in collaboration with the and , the Conference will serve as a platform to advance these principles as key priorities in the international agenda for implementing the Pact for the Future.
The Pact for the Future underscores that science is instrumental for the three pillars of the United Nations ¨C sustainable development, peace and security, and human rights. Recognizing the potential for science to accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, the Pact supports policies toward open science and open innovation for achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
Billions of people ¨C especially in developing countries ¨C still lack access to participate in and benefit from critical scientific knowledge, research infrastructure, and emerging technologies. Open science and open scholarship provide a transformative pathway to reverse these trends, fostering multilateral cooperation, responsible innovation, and the equitable dissemination of knowledge.
As stated in the , we must ensure ¡°reciprocal access to science for all producers and consumers of knowledge regardless of their location, nationality, race, age, gender, income, socio-economic circumstance, career stage, discipline, language, religion, disability, ethnicity, migratory status or any other grounds¡±.
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