OE Café / Pass the OE Expert Baton. Linking research outputs to OER

How can we better support linking research outputs to OER? In this session, guests from Europe and Africa bring diverse perspectives, sharing real-world insights, lessons learned, and practical approaches to building bridges between scholarship and open education and to transform research results into valuable open educational resources. Drawing on field experience, the discussion will highlight what works, key challenges, and the role institutions, practitioners (with a particular focus on librarians), and communities can play. The Thirteenth Open Education Café was co-organised and co-hosted by SPARC Europe and the European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL) together with IFLA's Library Publishing Section on Friday, 23 October 2026, 5-6 pm CEST. We discussed with: Gráinne Carroll, Lecturer, Department of Business and Psychology; Lecturer, Department of Technology and Psychology; Psychology Department at Institute of Art, Design + Technology, Ireland James Lappeman, Associate Professor and Head of Section of Marketing Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa Julia Priess-Buchheit, (Prof. Dr. phil.), expert in teaching and learning in the fields of Open Science, (good) scientific practice, and research ethics at Kiel University, Germany. The discussion was facilitated by Jane Buggle, Chair of the Library Publishing Section at IFLA (Ireland), and Paola Corti, SPARC Europe (Italy).