{"id":23,"date":"2023-02-14T09:43:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T09:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.hanken.fi\/research-funding-blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2023-08-31T11:00:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T11:00:38","slug":"renewal-of-research-assessment-implications-to-applicants-and-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hanken.fi\/research-funding-blog\/2023\/02\/14\/renewal-of-research-assessment-implications-to-applicants-and-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewal of research assessment \u2013 implications to applicants and applications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The EU has declared 20 ERA (European Research Area) actions for the period 2022-2024 to contribute to the priority areas defined in the Pact for Research and Innovation. The ERA action 3 is targeted to reform the Assessment System for research, researchers, and institutions. As a result, a Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (<\/strong>CoARA<\/strong><\/a>) was established in 2022, and Hanken joined it with other Finnish universities. But what does this mean in practice?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EU has\ntaken research ethics and integrity seriously, and there are two direct\nimplications: 1) Responsible research assessment, which concerns both job\napplications and research funding applications, is intertwined with research\nethics and integrity. The applicant and the application are screened but also\nthe methods and questions used for the assessment reveal whether the assessing\nside has embraced the ideas of new responsible research and integrity. 2) All\nresearch funding applications sent to the EU funding bodies are going through\nethics screening. This means that the applicant needs to consider all aspects\nof research ethics in the application when it comes to data, methods or\ncommunicating the results. If the applicant fails to clarify these, the\napplication will not be funded even if the idea and implementation would be\notherwise excellent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The renewal\nof research assessment means in short that the assessments should not emphasise\nquantitative indicators but give more emphasis on qualitative assessment. This\ngoes for both job and research funding applications. Even the prestigious ERC\nfunding body is now changing its assessment when it became the signatory of\nCoARA, which means that the forthcoming assessments in 2024 will follow new\nguidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To summarise<\/strong> what this means for an individual researcher: remember to consider all aspects of responsible research in your research work and applications. Forget impact factors in your publication list and CV and instead be ready to point out what kind of impact you have had in your field and plethora of research related activities (also outside of academia) that you as a researcher have been engaged to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you need\nhelp with questions related research applications, the ethics and open science\nsections, do not hesitate to ask help from the research funding team and\nlibrary!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sirpa\nAalto, Head of research funding<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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