Open World Conference – University of Copenhagen

Open World Conference 2022

Open World Conference: Celebrating Bohr's vision of an open world

The "Open World" series

The series of Open World Conferencens are inspired by world renowned physicist Niels Bohr and his vision of an open world where nations may trust each other and collaborate by sharing science and technology across both geographical and academic borders.

Bohr shared this vision in an open letter to the United Nations on June 9th, 1950, and in the letter he adressed the hopes and dangers associated with the nuclear revolution which he experienced firsthand. Read more.

Open World Conference 2022

The latest conference in the "Open World" series is the Open World Conference 2022, which has the subtitle Open Science and Global Dangers. OW22 was an interdisciplinary conference about open science where we, over the course of two days, discussed the dilemmas of openness in research and research collaboration.

Marking the centenary of Niels Bohr’s Nobel Prize in physics, and the United Nations announcing 2022 as the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development, we acknowledged Bohr’s vision of an open world and discussed how we, now and in the future, can use openness as a tool towards a safer world.

This conference featured a variety of speakers such as David Kaiser, Professor at MIT; Tong Zhao, Senior Fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; James Fearon, Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor at Stanford University, and Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University.