Upon arrival at the conference, you will find a registration desk where you will receive your name badge, and a tote filled with useful materials. 

After registration, all participants will be served a light lunch before the official program begins. 

1 PM: Opening introduction by David Budtz Pedersen, Professor, Chair of the Programme Committee 

1:10 PM: Brief welcome by Per Michael Johansen, Professor, Vice-Chancellor, Aalborg University

1:20 PM: Brief welcome by Christine Egelund, Minister for Higher Education and Science 

1:30 PM: Brief welcome 

1:40 PM: Lightening talk: Fostering sustainable and inclusive research cultures 

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Keynote will be announced soon.

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Scope: In this opening plenary panel, speakers take stock of current and future dimensions of research assessment to maximize the quality and impact of research and innovation. Urgent imperatives include the need for incentives and rewards that foster the production, transmission and implementation of knowledge and innovation by equipping individual researchers, universities, and funding agencies with the necessary infrastructures and frameworks to enable scientific leadership. Speakers represent a range of voices from the academic community and the science funding ecosystem. The panel explores evolving expectations of European and international research teams to play an active role in securing competitiveness, democratic values, and scientific autonomy. A prerequisite for a vibrant science and innovation system is sustainable research cultures that enable excellence and impact through flexible and diverse career paths, mobility in all its forms, and evaluations that properly acknowledge and support the many values at the core of our research systems.

Chair and speakers will be announced soon!

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Morning check-in including a wrap-up of Day 1 and introduction to Day 2's program by David Budtz Pedersen, Professor, Chair of the Program Committee. 

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Speakers and chair will be announced soon

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Scope: This session addresses emerging research focusing on research assessment, indicators, metrics, and drivers of cultural change. To foster sustainable reform of research assessment, the session takes stock of the progress and promising practices generated by a selection of research projects. More specifically, the session presents studies of research assessment practices and their impact on academic practices and career development. To support cultural change, studies are needed to analyze researcher’s attitudes, behaviors, publication practices, impact and collaborative abilities. The session provides an overview of evidence relating to the assessment reforms so far. The aim of the session is to map research assessment activities that are tested, developed and implemented through on-going projects, and to support the dissemination of good practices stemming from them. 

Chair and speakers will be announced soon.

Scope: This thematic session engages with some of the key institutions in Europe and beyond who have been instrumental in experimenting with new metrics, indicators, and assessment frameworks. Highlighting the need for integrity, rigor, quality, and impact in science, the session takes a closer look at some of the leading institutions in the reform of research assessment. The session is designed to promote peer learning and leave the participants with genuine inspiration to embark on similar exercises and experiments at the local and national level. Institutional leadership and leading by example are the guiding principles for the session. 

Chair and speakers will be announced soon.

Scope: In today’s advanced knowledge economies, competition serves as a main driving force behind new inventions and scientific breakthroughs. Researchers are competing for funding. Universities are competing for visibility and impact. Countries are competing for talent. However, healthy competition requires standardized principles and openness for collaboration. While competitive behaviors continue to drive scientific breakthroughs, it is clear that collaboration and networks based on trust and inclusion are necessary components in the advancement of scientific creativity, innovation and excellence. This topical session asks how to balance competition with collaboration as a cornerstone of healthy, connected scientific institutions. How do universities and research funding agencies establish rules and principles for sound competition and collaboration? How do they ensure that European universities stay at the forefront of global science? 

Chair and speakers will be announced soon. 

Lunch will be served 

Scope: Discussions on reforming research assessment have gained momentum on a global scale. World-wide, organizations, institutions, funding agencies etc. address the need for reform of rewards and recognition. In Europe, the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) has captured and embodied the call for inclusive and responsible assessment. However, for reforms to be truly impactful, they need to be based in a global conversation about foundational values and promising practices for rethinking assessments. The design and direction of research careers, incentives, rewards, and metrics are highly co-dependent across countries and regions. Hence, the conference offers a platform to discuss – and challenge – the idea of transferable credentials and rewards, and the values underpinning global reforms.  The Global Plenary Panel features representatives and voices from North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America to discuss global approaches to research assessment including the role of global funding agencies in creating an inclusive and responsible global assessment cultures.

Chair and speakers will be announced soon

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Plenary wrap-up, takeaways and goodbye 

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