Updated 23 July 2025

Launch of CoARA Swiss National Chapter LinkedIn Page

You are welcome to join the official LinkedIn account of the CoARA Swiss National Chapter

On 1st July, we have launched this account to connect, share, and grow together as part of the broader movement to reform research assessment across Switzerland and beyond. 

As a National Chapter of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA), our goal is to foster an inclusive community committed to improving how research and researchers are evaluated – aligning with CoARA’s core principles of responsible, fair, and transparent research assessment.

What to expect from us: 


• Updates on CoARA-related activities in Switzerland
opportunities for collaboration, dialogue, and mutual learning
• Highlights of Swiss institutions and individuals leading change

• Resources, events, and success stories from our chapter members 



Whether you’re a researcher, policymaker, funder, institutional leader, or advocate for cultural change in research assessment, we invite you to follow us, engage with our posts, and be part of the journey!

Webinar on Recognising ORD in Evaluation Processes

On 27. March, 10.00-11.00 CET, we kicked off a thematic webinar series within the framework of the CoARA National Chapter Switzerland. The webinar series provides the opportunity to showcase work related to reforming research assessment and discussing it with a broader community. The first edition will focus on recognizing open research data (ORD) in evaluation processes.

Martin Jaekel and Sylvia Jeney present the outputs of the recognize ORD (recORD) project and invite you to discuss the resulting recommendations, how they can be implemented and how relevant institutions can continue to collaborate to achieve that.

The recORD consortium, including over a dozen of Swiss higher education institutions and the SNSF, developed recommendations, which aim to provide a solid and widely supported starting point for the implementation of better ORD recognition.

The National Chapter brings together Swiss cantonal and federal universities, universities of applied sciences and funders, covering Switzerland’s different language regions and reflecting the variety of its Higher Education and Research landscape.

While the different institutions have been engaged in individual initiatives fostering Open Science, EDI and/or responsible research assessment more generally and plan to be involved in different CoARA working groups, the Swiss National Chapter will ensure a more coordinated and systematic approach towards reforming research assessment on a national level, in line with European and international developments.

The objectives of the Swiss National Chapter are:

• Ensure mutual learning across institutions by sharing experiences and good practices
• Align approaches whenever possible while respecting the autonomy of all institutions involved
• Raise awareness about the reform of research assessment in relevant communities in Switzerland
• Seek dialogue with researchers from different disciplines
• Encourage involvement of non-members of CoARA