UM-CoARA action plan for reforming research assessment
In 2022, Maastricht University signed the agreement of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA), a coalition of universities consisting of 646 members across 50 different countries worldwide. They are committed to reforms in scientific research assessment. Our university president Rianne Letschert chairs CoARA.
Commitments
Among other things, the agreement states that each institution will draw up an action plan describing the process of achieving new criteria, with all milestones and all actions now and in the future to meet our commitments. In its action plan, UM pledges the following commitments:
- recognising diverse contributions in research careers;
- using research evaluations based on qualitative assessments;
- using responsible quantitative indicators; and
- avoiding research organisation rankings and benchmarking in research evaluations.
UM has been engaged for some time now in bringing about a culture change in how we conduct and value research through various initiatives such as Recognition & Rewards, Open Science and FAIR data. The coalition's efforts align well with our vision in this area and ambitions towards the future. Our own action plan and those of other institutions can be read on the following website: Zenodo - CoARA Action Plans
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