Updated on 31 March 2025

Responsible Assessment Day on 9 April 2025

The Responsible Assessment Day will be held on April 9, 2025, offering the academic community in Finland an opportunity to engage in discussions on topics related to responsible assessment. This year’s event will feature a keynote by the Vice Chair of CoARA Elizabeth Gadd and updates on the development of the Finnish Career Assessment Matrix tool (FIN-CAM). The event is open to researchers, research administrators, and representatives from research performing and research funding organizations. The event will be conducted mainly in Finnish.

Recent Cascade Funding webinar on 23 January 2025:

The Finnish National Chapter is organised a webinar (in Finnish) on January 23 to showcase the projects of Finnish organizations that succeeded in the first CoARA Cascade Funding call. The webinar aimed to inspire organisations in their reform journey or those preparing to participate in the second Cascade Funding call. Stay tuned for more updates!

Finnish Career Assessment Matrix Assessment Tool:

A draft version of the FIN-CAM (Finnish Career Assessment Matrix) assessment tool, designed to facilitate a comprehensive, systematic and transparent examination of the wide range of work areas, merits and competence of an individual researcher in various assessment situations, is open for comments until 7 February 2025.

Read more and explore the draft of FIN-CAM here: https://vastuullinentiede.fi/en/news/comment-fin-cam-assessment-tool-designed-responsible-assessment-researchers

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.

National Chapter Finland Events to Date:

• 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)
• 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.