KNEU has joined the Coalition for the Advancement of Research Assessment (CoARA) and signed the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment, developed by the European University Association, Science Europe and the European Commission. 

The final version of the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment, co-created with over 350+ organisations from 40 countries and published on 20 July this year, was presented and officially opened for signature on 28 September, during a plenary session of the European Research and Innovation Days 2022.

During this session, speakers including Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth), Sylvie Retailleau (French Minister for Higher Education and Research), Lidia Borrell-Damián (Secretary General of Science Europe), Paul Boyle (Vice-President of the European University Association – EUA), and Anna Panagopoulou (Director of European Research Area & Innovation in the European Commission) described the Agreement as a catalyzer of change for a better and brighter R&I system in Europe and beyond and called on the scientific community at large to support this transformative initiative. Since the publication of the Agreement, and even before the official opening of signatures, 51 organisations from across Europe had already declared their commitment to sign the Agreement, and they were announced as “early signatories” of the Agreement.

KNEU is one of the “early signatories”.