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Results of the Steering Board elections, including balancing criteria

Following the election results at CoARA’s General Assembly on December 9th, 2024, we are pleased to share the new composition of the CoARA Steering Board/

According to CoARA’s voting mechanism, the election was organised as follows:

  • Step 1: The Chair was elected first, based on the total number of votes received, independent of the other balancing criteria.
  • Step 2: Candidates running for the SB were ranked in descending order based on the total number of votes received.
  • Step 3. Starting from the top of the ranked list, 7 candidates were pre-selected (see column B).

Geographical balancing: the 7 pre-selected candidates did not meet the criteria for geographical balancing. A second candidate from Region A was selected. As a result, the candidate with the least amount of votes from region B was excluded from the initial list of selected candidates.

Type of organisation balancing: The ranking resulting from geographical balancing did not include a representative from “Public or private research funding organisations and their associations”. To balance this, the candidate from this organisation type haviing received the most votes was selected. As a result, the candidate with the least votes from other organisation types and from region B was excluded from the list of selected candidates.

Gender balancing: no change in the ranking was necessary according to this criterion.

Number of votes Raw ranking Ranking after  geographical balancing criteria Ranking after organisation type criteria Ranking after gender balancing  Final ranking  Elected Title Name Region code Country Type of organisation Gender Affiliation Nominating organisation
152 1 1 1 1 1 yes Dr. Karen Stroobants B United Kingdom Academies, learned societies, and their associations, and associations of researchers Female Marie Curie Alumni Association Marie Curie Alumni Association
131 2 2 2 2 2 yes Prof. Marcin Palys A Poland Universities and their associations Male European University Association (EUA) European University Association (EUA)
130 3 3 3 3 3 yes Dr. Irene Ramos-Vielba B Spain National/regional authorities or agencies that implement some form of research assessment and their associations Female The Spanish National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA) The Spanish National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA)
92 4 4 4 4 4 yes Dr. Gabi Lombardo B Italy Other relevant non-for-profit organisations involved with research assessment, and their associations Female European Alliance for SSH European Alliance for SSH
92 5 5 8 8 8 no Prof. Katri Johanna Björkroth B Finland Universities and their associations Female University of Helsinki University of Helsinki
88 6 6 5 5 5 yes Prof. Cameron Neylon C Australia Research centres, research infrastructures, and their associations Male Curtin University Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI)
86 7 8 6 6 6 yes M. Hans de Jonge B The Netherlands Public or private research funding organisations and their associations Male Dutch Research Council NWO Dutch Research Council NWO
83 8 9 9 9 9 no Dr. Alex Rushforth B The Netherlands Universities and their associations Male Leiden University Leiden University
82 9 10 10 10 10 no Prof. Fabien Borget B France Universities and their associations Male Aix-Marseille Université Aix-Marseille Université
82 10 7 7 7 7 yes Prof. Stanislaw Kistryn A Poland Universities and their associations Male Jagiellonian University in Kraków Jagiellonian University in Kraków and Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland (CRASP)
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