Sea Monsters: The Obstacles Between Talking About and Doing Open Science

11 December 2025, 14:30-15:30 Open Science Café with Luca Visentin and Elena Giglia

Agenda

14:30 – 14:40 Connection opens and welcome remarks by Elena Giglia
14:40 - 15:00 Presentation by Luca Visentin
15:00 – 15:30 Q&A and discussion

Summary:

What obstacles stand between the idea of bringing Open Science into your organisation and actually implementing these practices? What practical and ideological barriers can you expect to find when putting into place the transparent and open philosophies typical of Open Science? How can they be overcome? Who can help us?

I invite you to take a brief boat trip with me from theory to practice. As Open Science Champions, we will navigate through evaluations, application communities, politics, policies and politicians, infrastructure, ideological friction, practical difficulties, semantics, and many other "Sea Monsters", learning how to fight them along the way.

Speakers

Elena Giglia (moderator): Head of the Open Access Project Unit at the University of Turin. She plays an active role in national and international working groups on Open Science and is a partner in several Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe projects. She was part of the Ministry of University and Research committee that drafted the National Plan for Open Science, which is soon to be published. She was also a member of the "Open Access and New Indicators" working group at ANVUR (2013-2014). She regularly participates in national and international conferences on various aspects of Open Science, including evaluation, and is highly active in training, raising awareness, and promoting these topics.

Luca Visentin (speaker): A PhD student in Complex Systems at the University of Turin since 2022. A biologist by training and a bioinformatician by day, by night he also focuses on Data Management, Data Stewardship, and Open Science. He successfully completed the first training course for Data Stewards at the University of Turin in 2024. He is the founder of the Open Science Community Turin, the first community of its kind in Italy, started in 2025. He is highly committed to raising researchers' awareness of Open Science, particularly regarding the reproducibility of methods, the transparency of protocols, and the proper sharing and accuracy of biomedical data and experimental designs.

Target audience

This webinar is created for the Italian community and is aimed at researchers, research support staff, technicians, and technologists interested in learning more about Open Science and FAIR principles.

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