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 International Stakeholder 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 by Postdoctoral Fellow Yensi Flores Bueso from Global Young Academy

(This session will be live streamed) 

Keynote speaker:

Professor Sander van der Linden from Cambridge University

(This session will be live streamed) 

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Session outline: 

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.

Chairs: 

• Professor David Budtz Pedersen, Chair of the International Stakeholder Committee 
• Vice-Chair Karen Stroobants from CoARA 

Panelists:

• Professor Gemma Modinos from King's College
• CEO Cecilie Brøkner from Innovation Fund Denmark 
• Professor and President Maria Leptin from the European Research Council 
• Dr. and Head of Division Sonja Ochsenfeld-Repp from the German Research Foundaton

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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 International Stakeholder Committee. 

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Keynote speaker:

Dr. Laura Rovelli from University of Buenos Aires 

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Session outline: 

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. 

Chairs:

• Head of Programme Karen Skytte Larsen from Villum Foundation 
• Senior Policy Officer, Dr. James Morris from Science Europe 

Panelists:

• Professor James Wilsdon from the Research on Research Institute, UCL
• Professor Ismael Rafols from Leiden University 
• Professor Emaneul Kulczycki from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland 
• Associate Professor Asa Nakano from Kyoto University

Session outline: 

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. 

Chairs:

• Programme Manager Sean Sapcariu from the Luxembourg National Research Foundation
• Professor Søren Serritzlew from the Independent Research Fund Denmark  

Panelists:

• Rector magnificus Hesther Bijl from University of Leiden
• Vice-Chancellor Peter Aronsson from the Linnæus University
• Director Paula Adam from the Research Lab at the Agency for Health Quality and Assessment of Catalonia 
• Mr. Poul Melchiorsen from Aalborg University 
• Dr. Kathrine Bjerg Bennike from Aalborg University
• Vice-Chancellor Peter Aronsson from the Linnæus University 
• Dr. Kelly Cobey, co-chair of DORA, from the University of Ottawa Heart Institute

Session outline: 

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? 

Chairs:

• Director General Katarina Bjelke from the Swedish Research Council 

Panelists:

• Professor Elisa Reis member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
• Rector David Dreyer Lassen from University of Copenhagen 
• Secretary General Mattias Björnmalm from CESAER
• Professor Sandra Lapointe from McMaster University
• Senior Policy Analyst Carthage Smith from Technology and Innovation (OECD)  

Session outline: 

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:

• Moderator Nick Ishamel-Perkins 

Panelists:

• Co-Chair of DORA, Kelly Cobey from University of Ottowa Heart Institute
• Dr. Andiswa Mfengu from University of Cape Town
• Director Angela Bednarek from The Pew Charitable Trusts
• Secretary General Lidia Borrell-Damián from Science Europe
• Professor Emeritus Gunnar Sivertsen from the Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education

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Moderator Nick Ishmael-Perkins and Chair of the Conference David Budtz Pedersen will present take aways as well as wrap-up the conference

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