Knowledge Equity and Open Scholarship Week 2026 - save the dates and join our co-creation experiment - Knowledge Equity Network

"A diverse coalition of universities have announced the launch of the Knowledge Equity and Open Scholarship Week 2026 (KE & OS Week 2026), a fully online, global gathering dedicated to advancing inclusive, equitable, and collaborative approaches to knowledge creation, dissemination and access.

Co-created by Mohamed Lamine Debaghine University – Sétif 2, University of Pretoria, University of Leeds, University of Salford, Université de Sousse and Chair UNESCO Open Education for Innovative, Intelligent and Inclusive Learning, andUtrecht University, and delivered in close collaboration with partners across the worldwide knowledge community, the programme will take place in 2026 with a central theme: “How can we bridge the Opens?”

Inspired by the SPARC Europe Positioning Paper, The Case for Connecting the Opens (November 2025), this three-day event, taking place from Tuesday 19th May to Thursday 21st May 2026, will explore how Open Education, Open Science/Open Research, Open Access and Open Infrastructure can work more effectively together to strengthen the equitability of global knowledge ecosystems."