IP4OS joined a landmark gathering at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris for the “Open Science: Monitoring Progress, Assessing Impact” conference, bringing together global stakeholders to shape the future of Open Science assessment. 

The UNESCO event, held on 8 July 2025, advanced key discussions around how progress in Open Science can be tracked, measured, and improved - building on the 2021 UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science and leveraging the PathOS project’s work on frameworks and indicators. 

Why IP4OS’s presence matters

As Open Science policies and practices scale across Europe (and beyond), monitoring becomes essential: not just counting outputs or compliance, but understanding how open practices affect knowledge circulation, innovation, equity, and research security. Here, IP4OS plays a pivotal role.

• Capacity Building: IP4OS can support institutions and national agencies in building the skills, infrastructures, and governance frameworks needed to collect, interpret, and act on Open Science metrics and monitoring data.
• Policy Integration: By contributing expertise at the intersection of Intellectual Property (IP) and Open Science (OS), IP4OS helps ensure that monitoring frameworks capture how IP policies, licensing practices, and security considerations influence outcomes.
• Knowledge Circulation & Innovation: Through its work, IP4OS promotes legal and institutional designs that encourage wider reuse of research, while safeguarding against misuse or unexpected risk - an essential balance in any monitoring regime.

Looking Forward

With UNESCO, OpenAIRE, PathOS, and other partners setting a global baseline of monitoring principles and tools, IP4OS’s engagement helps bridge the gap between high-level frameworks and on-the-ground practices. By embedding IP-OS insight into monitoring, it ensures that assessment systems do more than measure - they also guide research systems toward more transparent, secure, and innovation-friendly knowledge ecosystems.

Stay tuned for more updates on IP4OS’s contributions to policy tools, training modules, and collaborative pilot monitoring initiatives in Europe and beyond.