To date over 735 leading organisations worldwide, including universities, research centres and funding bodies, have signed the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment – a unified effort to maximise the quality and impact of research on a global scale. The agreement sets a shared direction for improving assessment practices for research, researchers and research performing organisations.
At an online INSPIRING ERA event on Friday 22 November, organisations that have not yet signed the Agreement could learn more about the commitments involved, the support provided by the global CoARA coalition, and gain firsthand insights from other organisations already implementing the Agreement.
Materials from the event
You can watch a recording of the event below:
PowerPoint presentations
Overview of the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment and CoARA and the work of the coalition Dr Karen Stroobants, Vice-Chair, CoARA and Dr Erzsebet Toth-Czifra, CoARA Secretariat
Experiences and perspectives of a signatory, Michal Petr, Masaryk University, Czechia
Useful links
Links shared at the event, included:
- SCOPE Framework for Research Evaluation
- The CoARA website, including pages on list of coalition members, national chapters, addressing debates, the full text of the Agreement, cascade funding, CoARA YouTube channel, and list of signatories.
- CoARA article on The role of scientometrics in the pursuit of responsible research assessment
- Action plans from signatories and CoARA members
- ERA Policy Platform: How Horizon Europe supports research assessment reform
- 2 portals / tools: MERIT (by Quest) and the RESQUE Framework, which can be used by universities, particularly by hiring / tenure review boards to pre-process applicant Information and structure debates in such a way to make review more qualitative and more broad-based.
Overview of programme
10:00 CET Welcome
Introduction to ERA Policy Action 3: Research Assessment Reform
Jean-Emmanuel Faure, Team leader for Research Assessment. DG R&I, European Commission
Overview of the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment
Dr Karen Stroobants, Vice-Chair, CoARA
CoARA and the work of the coalition
Dr Erzsebet Toth-Czifra, CoARA Secretariat
Q&A
Perspectives of two signatories explaining their motivation and experience of the coalition.
Michal Petr, Masaryk University, Czechia
Dr Matthias Kiesselbach, DFG German Research Foundation
Panel discussion on what implementing the agreement means in practice, including Q&A
12:00 CET Close
This online event was organised by the EU INSPIRING ERA project supporting the implementation of the ERA Policy Agenda in collaboration with CoARA, the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment.
