Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences (ViA) has joined the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) on the reform of science assessment, joining the family of higher education institutions, universities and colleges.
“CoARA” is a collective of organizations committed to reforming the methods and processes by which research, researchers and research organizations are assessed. Current research assessment methods rely heavily on publication-based indicators, such as the number of citations, and often fail to recognize the broad contribution of researchers. More than 700 research organizations, funders, assessment institutions, professional societies and their associations have agreed on a common direction and basic principles to implement a reform in the assessment of research, researchers and research organizations.
“With this agreement, we support reforms in the assessment of researchers’ achievements, research projects, and research organizations,” says Kārlis Krēsliņš, Vice-Rector for Academic and Scientific work.
The Agreement focuses on the specific challenges involved in reforming the research assessment of researchers, research projects, research units and research organisations. It does not consider research performance at country level.
In Latvia, this agreement has also been signed by the Latvian Academy of Arts, the Latvian Council of Higher Education, and the Latvian Council of Science, while in the European Universities Network - E³UDRES² - several partners, such as St. Pōlten University of Applied Sciences in Austria.
