diff --git a/.github/workflows/test_openvino.yml b/.github/workflows/test_openvino.yml
index cb58f412a6..d43cabe323 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test_openvino.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test_openvino.yml
@@ -36,3 +36,9 @@ jobs:
     - name: Test with Pytest
       run: |
         pytest tests/openvino/ --ignore test_modeling_basic
+    - name: Test openvino-nightly import
+      run: |
+        pip uninstall -y openvino
+        pip install openvino-nightly
+        python -c "from optimum.intel import OVModelForCausalLM; OVModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained('hf-internal-testing/tiny-random-gpt2', export=True, compile=False)"
+
diff --git a/optimum/intel/utils/import_utils.py b/optimum/intel/utils/import_utils.py
index 87ddcc1315..d15780384f 100644
--- a/optimum/intel/utils/import_utils.py
+++ b/optimum/intel/utils/import_utils.py
@@ -71,7 +71,10 @@
     try:
         _openvino_version = importlib_metadata.version("openvino")
     except importlib_metadata.PackageNotFoundError:
-        _openvino_available = False
+        try:
+            _openvino_version = importlib_metadata.version("openvino-nightly")
+        except importlib_metadata.PackageNotFoundError:
+            _openvino_available = False
 
 
 _nncf_available = importlib.util.find_spec("nncf") is not None