On 16 September 2025, CSIL will contribute to the Open Science Fair 2025 (OSFair2025), hosted at CERN in Geneva.
Jessica Catalano will present the Cost-Benefit Analysis Framework for Open Science, developed within the Horizon Europe PathOS Project. The presentation will highlight how evaluation tools and case studies can inform evidence-based policy and funding decisions, and support a better understanding of the societal value of Open Science.
The Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) framework for OS provides a systematic approach to quantifying impacts. Going beyond the measurement of benefits alone, it incorporates associated costs and enables meaningful comparisons with scenarios in which OS is not implemented.
The presentation will illustrate the key elements of this framework, focusing on the types of costs (e.g. set-up and maintenance) and benefits (e.g. cost savings) specific to OS, and the methodology used to quantify them. Within the PathOS project, CSIL has piloted this framework to evaluate the socio-economic impacts of two Open Science practices: UniProt, an open-access protein database, and RCAAP, Portugal’s national open repository network. The work is summarised in an open-access deliverable on Zenodo, which features case study reports as annexes.
The presentation will also address the challenges of applying the CBA framework and propose recommendations for mitigation strategies and actions, aiming to strengthen its role as a tool for evaluating the socio-economic value of Open Science resources and supporting evidence-based policy and funding decisions.
📍 Date: 16 September 2025
📍 Location: CERN, Geneva
Further details on the programme and registration are available via the following links: