diff --git a/.github/workflows/test_openvino_examples.yml b/.github/workflows/test_openvino_examples.yml
index a1b7f09b26..61b411c967 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test_openvino_examples.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test_openvino_examples.yml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ name: OpenVINO - Examples Test
 on:
   workflow_dispatch:
   schedule:
-    - cron:  '14 3 * * 1'  # run weekly: every Monday at 3:14
+    - cron: 0 1 * * 1  # run weekly: every Monday at 1am
   push:
     paths:
     - '.github/workflows/test_openvino_examples.yml'
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ on:
     - '.github/workflows/test_openvino_examples.yml'
     - 'examples/openvino/*'
 
-
 concurrency:
   group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
   cancel-in-progress: true
@@ -36,7 +35,7 @@ jobs:
 
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
-        pip install optimum[openvino] jstyleson nncf
+        pip install optimum[openvino] jstyleson nncf pytest
         pip install -r examples/openvino/audio-classification/requirements.txt
         pip install -r examples/openvino/image-classification/requirements.txt
         pip install -r examples/openvino/question-answering/requirements.txt
@@ -44,4 +43,4 @@ jobs:
 
     - name: Test examples
       run: |
-        python examples/openvino/test_examples.py
\ No newline at end of file
+        python -m pytest examples/openvino/test_examples.py
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/examples/openvino/test_examples.py b/examples/openvino/test_examples.py
index a59b8b5690..d3993d5b78 100644
--- a/examples/openvino/test_examples.py
+++ b/examples/openvino/test_examples.py
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ def test_image_classification(self):
         with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmp_dir:
             test_args = f"""
                 run_image_classification.py
-                --model_name_or_path nateraw/vit-base-beans
+                --model_name_or_path hf-internal-testing/tiny-random-ViTModel
                 --dataset_name beans
                 --max_train_samples 10
                 --max_eval_samples 2