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CoARA National Chapter: Finland

The mission is to support the entire Finnish research community in its journey towards a quality-focused assessment culture that recognises the full diversity and impact of academic work.

National Chapter's Objectives

1. Raise awareness and discussion about the importance of approaches to assessment that incentivise, reflect and reward the plural characteristics of high-quality research, in support of diverse, inclusive and open research cultures.

2. Engage all types of stakeholders in the movement for change: ministries, universities, universities of applied sciences, research institutes and other research-performing organisations, public funding agencies, and private foundations, including organisations that already are or could become CoARA signatories.

3. Discover the most responsible assessment approaches and alleviate contradictions between different assessment layers and processes concerning individual researchers and research teams, research organisations and higher education institutions, research infrastructures, and research outputs and projects.

4. Facilitate the effective and timely implementation of CoARA commitments and other supporting and related recommendations (e.g., DORA, ERA Policy Action 3 & 4, and Recommendation for the responsible evaluation of a researcher in Finland) within and across signatory organisations.

Latest News

Upcoming events:

  • 2 September 2024 – Webinar: Narrative CV 2.9.2024 (https://vastuullinentiede.fi/en/events/webinar-narrative-cv)
  • 2 September 2024 – Webinar: Publication metrics in responsible assessment (https://vastuullinentiede.fi/en/events/webinar-publication-metrics-responsible-assessment)

Past events:

  • 2 April 2024 – Webinar on Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information (https://vastuullinentiede.fi/en/news/webinar-barcelona-declaration-open-research-information)
  • 18 April 2024 – Responsible Assessment Day
  • Resource: Researchers’ views on diversity of career assessment criteria in Finland: a survey report https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11612535

CoARA Action Plan webinar took place on 12 March 2024: find out more here.

Member Organisations

  • Aalto University
  • Arcada University of Applied Sciences
  • Centria University of Applied Sciences
  • Diaconia University of Applied Sciences
  • Federation of Finnish Learned Societies
  • Finnish Environment Institute
  • Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
  • Finnish Union of Docents
  • Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences
  • Hanken School of Economics
  • Helsinki University
  • HUMAK University of Applied Sciences
  • Häme University of Applied Sciences
  • Jamk University of Applied Sciences
  • Karelia University of Applied Sciences
  • Lapland University of Applied Sciences
  • Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology
  • Laurea University of Applied Sciences
  • Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
  • Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
  • NLS National Land Survey of Finland
  • Novia University of Applied Sciences
  • Oulu University of Applied Sciences
  • Police University College
  • Research Council of Finland
  • Savonia University of Applied Sciences
  • Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences
  • South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences Xamk
  • Tampere University
  • Tampere University of Applied Sciences
  • The University of the Arts Helsinki
  • Turku University of Applied Sciences
  • University of Eastern Finland
  • University of Jyväskylä
  • University of Lapland
  • University of Oulu
  • University of Turku
  • University of Vaasa
  • Vaasa University of Applied Sciences
  • VTT Technical Research Centre
  • Young Academy Finland
  • Åbo Akademi University
  • Åland University of Applied Sciences

 

 

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Please contact Mira Söderman, Federation of Finnish Learned Societies, mira.soderman[at]tsv[dot]fi

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