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WG Co-Chairs Forum: Connecting Efforts 2024

 

Location of the conference:

House of Science and Letters

Kirkkokatu 6, 00170 Helsinki, Finland

 

Online attendance: Please find zoom access link here.

 

Find practical information for in-person participants here.

 

Contact:

Onsite organisers: mira.soderman@tsv.fi 

CoARA Secretariat: secretariat@coara.org

 


 

Agenda

In local time – EEST

 

10 September 2024

 

19:00 – Informal Dinner with Working Group Chairs.

Restaurant Kappeli, Eteläesplanadi 1, 00130 Helsinki

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11 September 2024

 

8:30 Registration/Accreditation

 

9:00

Welcome to the workshop

Janne Pölönen, Federation of Finnish Learned Societies, CoARA Steering Board

Dr. Erzsebet Toth-Czifra, CoARA Program Manager

 

9:10

CoARA state of the art and vision for Working Groups 

Dr. Elizabeth Gadd, CoARA Steering Board Vice-Chair

 

Session 1 – Overview of CoARA WGs’ activities – Part 1

 

9:30

Presentations of Working Groups (7 mins each) *

 

  • Towards Open Infrastructures for Responsible Research Assessment, Clifford Tatum, CWTS, Leiden University; Angeliki Tzouganatou, OpenAIRE AMKE

 

  • Multilingualism and language biases in research assessment, Janne Pölönen, Federation of Finnish Learned Societies

 

  • Experiments in Assessment – Idea generation, co-creation, and piloting, Sean Sapcariu, Luxembourg National Research Fund

 

  • Reforming Academic Career Assessment, Dr. Rita Morais, European University Association (EUA)

 

  • Responsible metrics and indicators, Prof. Katarzyna Nawrot, Poznan University of Economics and Business

 

  • Improving practices in the assessment of research proposals, Dr. Jean-Emmanuel Faure, European Commission
 

10:45

 

Coffee Break

 

Session 2 – Overview of CoARA WGs’ activities – Part 2*

 

11:15

Presentations of Working Groups (7 mins each)*

 

  • Supporting the alignment of research assessment systems with CoARA in biomedical disciplines through administrative reforms and governance, Dr Miriam Kip, Charité Universitaetsmedizin Berlin; Dr Iris Uribesalgo, EU-LIFE

 

  • Towards Transformations: Transdisciplinarity, Applied/Practice-Based Research, and Impacts, Dr. Tiina Kelkka, Laurea UAS; Dr. Tino Johansson, University of Helsinki.

 

  • Recognizing and Rewarding Peer Review (online), Johan Rooryck, cOAlition S

 

  • Early-and-mid-Career Researchers (EMCRs) – Assessment and Research Culture, Emma Day, CRAC-VITAE

 

  • TIER – Towards an Inclusive Evaluation of Research, Prof. Silvia Penati, University of Milano-Bicocca

 

  • Ethics and Research Integrity Policy in Responsible Research Assessment for Data and Artificial Intelligence (ERIP), Prof. Dr. Perihan Elif Ekmekci, TOBB ETU

 

  • Evaluating Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) research globally, Dr. Jonathan Deer, EASSH

 

12:45

Lunch

 

Group discussion

 

14:00

 

 

 

Group Discussion block 1: connectivity of WGs 

  • How knowledge sharing across WGs can be further supported? (e.g. via observer in others WGs)
  • How alignment with National Chapters’ efforts can be facilitated in a structured manner?
  • Overarching topics across WGs?

 

14:45

Group discussion block 2: WGs operational framework

Presentation by Sanja Terlevic, YERUN (monitoring)

 

  • Introducing the WGs’ monitoring framework
  • What are the most beneficial and effective processes and channels for internal and external communication on and dissemination of Working Groups’ activities?
 

15:30

 

Coffee Break

16:00

Group discussion block 3: WGs monitoring and endorsement framework

Presentation by Dr. Karen Stroobants

 

  • Concluding the discussion on the operational framework
  • Introduction of a proposed WG outputs endorsement framework
  • How to ensure that WGs activities and outputs meet the rest of the coalition, how to ensure mechanisms for endorsing, validating and eventually implementing WGs’ outputs by CoARA members
 

17:30

 

Conclusion and next steps

 

 

19:00 – Dinner with CoARA Steering Board.

Restaurant Sunn, Aleksanterinkatu 26 (2nd floor), 00170 Helsinki

Map.

 

*Guiding questions for the presentations

 

  • What is the current status of your Working Group?
  • What are the challenges and opportunities you see or experienced so far in collaborating/ pursuing a dialogue with other WGs and NCs?
  • What overlapping topics would you recognise among WGs?

 

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