Reliability, equity, impact

We are happy to announce the call for the 21st Munin Conference that will take place on April 20–22, 2027, in Tromsø, Norway. This will be the first Munin conference to be organized according to the biennial schedule. In the meantime, the organizing committee have keen ears on the movements and news in the community.

The Munin conference stays true to its mission to contribute to openness and equity throughout the research lifecycle, from funding to publication and impact. The Munin conference still aims at covering a broad spectrum of topics related to open science, the research process and scholarly communication, and welcomes contributions within – but not limited to – the themes implied in the following axioms:

  • Reliability of research must be secured through structures and practices that promote research integrity and counteract questionable research practices and known biases (e.g. publication bias and “the file drawer problem”). This holds for the whole process from funding to dissemination and entails preregistration, open methods and code, statistical reform, the peer review process, andbig team science, among other things.
  • Equity in the research cycle must be improved. Research should benefit all of humanity and neo-colonial research practices (“helicopter research”) should be counteracted. Participatory and citizen science are ways of creating co-ownership of the process and the CARE principles ensure the interests and rights of indigenous peoples. A diversity of perspectives and practices should always be the basis for research assessment and evaluation.
  • For research to have impact, it must be reliable and disseminated in a way that makes it findable and openly available. To ensure that previous results can yield new advances, publications should be open access, research information should be transparent, and research data should be FAIR. The publishing ecosystem should be living and evolving, to bring forth new ways of disseminating research to the scientific society and to stakeholders. 

Format of submissions

We welcome any type of submission, whether it is a research paper, a hands-on workshop, a roundtable discussion, a call to action ora disruptive reform proposal, a report on a policy or a grass-root initiative, a synopsis of past and current trends, or something else. Untraditional formats are welcome! (The programme committee may suggest another format for a submission.)

The materials from the previous Munin conferences are available on the Munin conference’s archive page.

Posters

Posters will be hanging in the poster hall throughout the conference and will be published in a digital format in Septentrio Conference Series. There will be designated poster sessions.

Presentations

Oral presentations are no longer than 20 minutes + 5 minutes for questions. At least one author/presenter must be present in Tromsø.

Panels

Panels get a 60-minute slot in the programme for presentations and a discussion. Panels should include at least three panellists in the submission. All panellists must be present in Tromsø. Remember to save some time for questions from the audience!

Workshops

Workshops get a 90-minute slot in the programme. The workshops should be highly interactive, and we encourage any kind of practical activities.

Thematic sessions

Sometimes it can be beneficial to delve deeper into the substance of an issue and cover it from more angles than is possible with a presentation or a panel. Thus, for this edition of the Munin conference, we are testing a new format – parallel thematic sessions of 90–120 minutes. The thematic sessions should include at least three talks from different authors on a selected topic and could include a roundtable discussion in the end. All talks must be confirmed at the point of submission, with authors, titles and abstracts. Submissions with diverse presenters are encouraged and will be prioritized. At least one author/presenter from each presentation must be present in Tromsø.

Other

The Munin organizing committee are open to experimenting. If your proposed session does not fit into the formats described above, you will be able to suggest it in the category “Other”.

How to submit

To submit your proposal, use the following form. If a proposal is accepted, the authors will be asked to submit full metadata for their proposals on another platform.

Important dates

  • Proposal submission deadline – 16 October 2026
  • Notification of acceptance – 11 November 2026
  • Conference registration opens – January 2027
  • Conference registration deadline – 31 March 2027