EDUCA Flagship Consortium Meeting 14.–15.5.2025 University of Turku

Location: Visitor Centre Joki, Lemminkäisenkatu 12b, 20520 Turku 

Open Science & Impact Festival 2025 | UTU Avoimen tieteen kiihdyttämö

8.30 Registration and morning coffee at Visitor Center Joki

9.30 Opening words
- Piia Seppänen, Vice-rector for research, University of Turku
- Sami Niinimäki, Counsellor of Education, Ministry of Education and Culture

10.00 Keynote: Transition to Open Science – Why and How
- Frank Miedema, Emeritus professor, Utrecht University
- Commentary: Juuso Repo, Senior Researcher, INVEST Research Flagship Centre & Anne Marjamäki, Head of Business Development, member of the InFLAMES executive team, University of Turku

11.00 Keynote: Open Science as a transformation of the research system
- Ismael Rafols Garcia, Senior Researcher, University of Leiden
- Commentary: Jari Lavonen, Professor, University of Helsinki & Pyry Kettunen, Research Manager, National Land Survey of Finland

12.00 Lunch

13.15 Workshops

- Track 1: ”Only open science makes an impact” – Ways to share your research for impact
- Lead by the National Open Science Coordination from the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies

- Track 2: Impact Café – Strategies to Amplify the Impact of Your Research
- Lead by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters

- Track 3: Research collaboration for impact – How to engage with businesses successfully?
- Lead by the Finnish Research Impact Foundation

14.15 Panel discussion: The importance, challenges and support structures of open science and research impact

Moderator: Ilari Sääksjärvi, Professor of Biodiversity research, Director of the Biodiversity Unit, University of Turku

Panelists:
- Nora Fagerholm, Associate Professor in Human-Nature Interactions and Sustainability, DIWA Flagship, University of Turku
- Taina Saarinen, Research professor, Director of Finnish Institute for Educational Research, EDUCA Flagship, University of Jyväskylä
- Juhani Knuuti, Professor of Cardiovascular imaging, Administrative Director of InFLAMES Research Flagship, University of Turku
- Jani Erola, Professor of Sociology, Director of INVEST Research Flagship Center, University of Turku

15.15 Closing words: The Beauty of Science Communication
- Reetta Kettunen, Secretary General, Committee for Public Information

Networking over cocktails

Open Science & Impact event ends by 17.00