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Programme: National Chapters Exchange Forum 2024

 

  • Location of conference:

 

Alfândega Congress Centre – Porto

RUA NOVA DA ALFÂNDEGA EDIFÍCIO DA
ALFÂNDEGA 4050

430 PORTO Portugal (2nd floor)

 

For attendees joining from abroad, please note timezone:

Western European Time

 

  • Online attendance: Please find Zoom links (day 1 + 2) in the agenda below.

 

 

  • Contact:

Onsite organisers: coara-ncevent@inesctec.pt

CoARA Secretariat: secretariat@coara.eu

 


 

Agenda

Note: Local time – WET

 

Day 1 – 22 February 2024

Join the event on Zoom, click here.

Meeting Password: 971308

 

9:00

 

Registration/Accreditation

 

9:30

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome and opening

 

Dr. Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra, CoARA Program Manager

 

Dr. Lidia Borrell-Damián, CoARA Steering Board member and Secretary General Science Europe

 

Prof. João Claro, Vice Chairman and CEO of INESC TEC

 

Prof. Madalena Alves, President of FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology

 

Prof. Elvira Fortunato, Minister of Science, Technology, Higher Education Portugal (via video)

 

9:50

 

 

 

Introduction of CoARA and an overview of the growth of the coalition

Dr. Lidia Borrell-Damián, CoARA Steering Board member and Secretary General Science Europe

 

10:15

 

 

 

 

Highlighting the Portuguese landscape – key players and ongoing efforts towards the reform of research assessment

 

Dr. Bruno Béu , FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

 

10:25

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Showcasing CoARA National Chapters – Session 1, incl. Q&A

Chaired by Dr. Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra, CoARA Program Manager

• Local context and motivations for setting up the National Chapter
• Special characteristics of the National Chapter
• Challenges and opportunities that could be shared across National Chapters
• Approx. 10-minute Q&A at the end of the session. Remote participants can submit questions via Zoom

 

Presentations from NCs (10 minutes each):

Spain: Prof. Senena Corbalán

Poland: Prof. Stanislaw Kistryn

Ukraine: Dr. Oleksandr Berezko

Norway: Ragnar Lie

Italy: Francesca Di Donato (via video)

11:40

 

Coffee Break

 

12:00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Showcasing CoARA National Chapters – Session 2, incl. Q&A

Chaired by Dr. James Morris, Science Europe

• Local context and motivations for setting up the National Chapter
• Special characteristics of the National Chapter
• Challenges and opportunities that could be shared across National Chapters
• Approx. 10-minute Q&A at the end of the session. Remote participants can submit questions via Zoom

 

Presentations from NCs (10 minutes each):

Cyprus: Dr. Marios Demetriades (online)

Ireland: Dr. David O’Connell

Hungary: Krisztina Szepesvari, Andrea Balla, Miklós Györffi

France: Prof. Fabien Borget

Switzerland: Michaela Strinzel, Olivia Denk

Finland: Mira Söderman

 

13:10

 

Lunch

 

14:30

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Breakout group discussions
• Synergies and multilingualism (commonalities, complementarities, differences)

• Challenges and impact (what to overcome and what success in doing it looks like)

Info:

Onsite attendees of the event can spontaneously select breakout groups of their interests, with the even allocation of National Chapter representatives in mind.

Online attendees will be invited to join online breakout groups via Zoom (click here to enter) Meeting ID: 819 9717 3020   Passcode: 001966

 

16:00

 

Coffee Break

 

16:20

 

 

Plenary session – reporting back from the breakout sessions (ca. 5 minutes per group)

 

17:00

End of Day 1

 

followed by: Dinner

Please join the dinner (see info) at

Mosteiro de São Bento da Vitória

Starting time: 19:30 WET

Address: R. de São Bento da Vitória 45, 4050-542 Porto, Portugal

 

 

Day 2 – 23 February 2024

Join the event on Zoom, click here.

Meeting Password: 665609

9:30

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Highlighting new and developing CoARA National Chapters

Chaired by Janne Pölönen, CoARA Steering Board member, and Federation of Finnish Learned Societies

 

Presentations from upcoming National Chapters

Portugal: Prof. João Claro

Germany: Dr. Anna Christa

UK:  Grace Murkett (via video)

Sweden: Prof. Jan-Ingvar Jönsson (online)

 

• Context and motivations for setting up a National Chapter
• Including reflections and lessons learnt from Day 1

 

10:45

 

Coffee Break

 

11:15

 

Discussion on shared lessons learnt and next steps

Chaired by Dr. Lidia Borrell-Damián and Dr. Sylvie Rousset

12:00

 

 

Closing remarks

Dr. Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra, CoARA Program Manager

 

 

12:20

 

Lunch and end of the conference

 


 

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Information on CoARA National Chapters:

 

Overview and contacts find here.

 

Are you interested in forming a new National Chapter?

 

Information on the ongoing Call for National Chapters are here.

 

Applications can be submitted anytime via this online form.

 

Browse through the overview of CoARA’s National Chapters:

 

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