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
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| 9:00 |
Welcome to the workshop
Janne Pölönen, Federation of Finnish Learned Societies, CoARA Steering Board
Dr. Erzsebet Toth-Czifra, CoARA Program Manager
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| 9:10 |
CoARA state of the art and vision for Working Groups
Dr. Elizabeth Gadd, CoARA Steering Board Vice-Chair |
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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
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10:45 |
Coffee Break |
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Session 2 – Overview of CoARA WGs’ activities – Part 2*
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| 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
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| 12:45 |
Lunch |
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Group discussion
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| 14:00
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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?
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| 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?
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15:30
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Coffee Break
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| 16:00
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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
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17:30 |
Conclusion and next steps
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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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