Pre-Conference activities

Tuesday evening

As plenty of you will be in town before OER19 formally opens, we have arranged a space for you at Tribeton from 17:00, to meet with colleagues and share your excitement and plans for the coming days.

1-3 Merchants Rd, Galway | Tel: 00353 91 421 600  | www.tribeton.ie

Join the OER Policy Lab @ OER19!

In cooperation with the OER19 conference team and the Centrum Cyfrowe, the OER World Map project organizes the first OER POLICY Lab. The event will take place one day before the start of the official OER19 conference, for full information see here.

ILTA/ALT Northern Ireland meet up

Members of ILTA, our partners the Irish Learning Technology Association, and also ALT Members Norther Ireland are organising an informal meet up the day before OER19. Gathering at Tribeton from 4pm.

Open Science Week #OpenSciGalway

Making research and education accessible to all. NUI Galway Open Science Week is the first of its kind in Ireland, and is an exciting and innovative event that will bring together researchers, academics, educators, policymakers and members of the public to highlight and showcase what open science is and how it can be achieved, to work together towards creating knowledge that is open and accessible to all. Events taking place across exciting, innovative event will target several elements of Open Science, including Open Data, Open Access, Open Education and Citizen Science. More information here.

Activities in and around Galway

Thanks to our local volunteers, we have a lot of ideas for activities in and around Galway if you are arriving early. If you wish to liaise with other OER19 delegates who might be interested in doing various activities, we encourage you to use the OER19 Conference Backchannel to ask questions, share information, and possibly coordinate plans with fellow delegates: https://oer19.oerconf.org/participate/backchannel-faq/

Organising something? Please contact us and we’ll include it here.