Open Education Day 2026 invites you to submit session proposals:
Teachers, lecturers, researchers, those interested in education, associations, educational institutions, non-profit organisations, companies and public bodies are invited to contribute to creating a diverse conference programme.

The motto of the conference is ‘Learning together’. We welcome a wide range of submissions in the subject areas of the two tracks Open Education Day and Swissuniversities:

General input

1. open education, open pedagogy and (digital) inclusion
2. open educational practices, communities & learning circles
3. open educational resources, open content and open data
4. open manufacturing, making and open hardware
5. open source software: applications / school informatics / cloud

Swissuniversities: Higher Education (20min oder 45min) -- This track will be conducted in English

1. cooperation, co-creation and re-use
2. inclusion / students perspectives, OER champions and best practices
3. open source tools, AI and technologies for open education
4. policies, strategies and infrastructure
5. impact analysis and research

You are free to design your session as you wish: give a presentation, choose a collaborative methodology or conduct a practical workshop. We can only offer a few places for workshops lasting 90 minutes!
All sessions will take place on site at PHBern (Fabrikstrasse 8).
Feel free to draw inspiration from last year's topics: https://openeducationday.ch/programm-2025/

A brief explanation of the process:

1. Submit your session online via Pretalx here:
   - Please formulate the title according to the selected and preferred target language.
   - Please select the appropriate track (unfortunately, this does not happen automatically!).
   - If necessary, add another person as a speaker.
2. Please submit a meaningful and detailed description for the review process. All information can also be edited independently by the speakers at a later date. (Note: A secret link can also be generated to obtain feedback from third parties)
3. If there are any queries, the programme committee will contact the designated contact persons. An automated email from noreply@pretalx.com will request confirmation of the presentation.
4. Accepted sessions will be published in early March 2026.
5. Before the conference, you can upload your slides/materials for participants to Pretalx as PDF files or provide links to them. Please do this after the conference at the latest so that your contribution can be found by other interested parties and search engines in the future!

If you wish to support Open Education Day 2026 as a sponsor, have a look at the sponsoring portfolio.

The Open Education Day will take place on Saturday, 25 April 2025 - We would be delighted if you could contribute by hosting a session!
More information about the conference can be found at openeducationday.ch

Submissions close on 2026-01-20 23:59 (Europe/Zurich), 1 month, 2 weeks from now.