The annual International Open Access Week is a great opportunity for the academic and research community to discuss the benefits and challenges of Open Access, exchange new ideas with colleagues, and to inspire a wider public to make OA a new norm in science and research. Each year the OA Week has a guiding theme, which in 2023 was "Community over Commercialisation". This year’s theme continues the call to put “Community over Commercialization” and prioritize approaches to open scholarship that serve the best interests of the public and the academic community.

A number of Swiss universities and libraries have joined forces to put together a wide-ranging programme of online, hybrid and local events in different formats for the OA-Week in Switzerland this year.

The participating institutions are:

• Berner Fachhochschule
• EPFL
• ETH Zürich
• Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz
• Geneva Graduate Institute
• Haute École d'Ingénierie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud HEIG‑VD
• Interkantonale Hochschule für Heilpädagogik
• Lib4RI
• Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich
• Universität Basel
• Universität Bern
• Université de Genève
• Université de Lausanne
• Università della Svizzera italiana
• Universität St. Gallen
• Universitätsbibliothek Zürich
• Zentralbibliothek Zürich
• ZHB Luzern
• Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
• Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften

New events will constantly be added to the program. Please use the Hashtag #OAWEEKCH24 on social media.

Contact: openaccess@unibas.ch or openscience@unibe.ch