KRECon 2023, National Library of Technology, Prague, 9-10. 11. 2023

9 Nov 2023, 09:00 → 10 Nov 2023, 14:45 Europe/Prague

Balling Hall (NTK)

Thursday, 9 November

09:00 → 10:00 Registration for Pre-Conference Workshops

10:00 → 12:00 Pre-Conference Workshop

10:00 EURODOC workshop on Open Research Europe (ORE)

for early-career researchers (registration via Eurodoc)

10:00 → 12:00 Pre-Conference Workshop

10:00 OPUS workshop on reforming research(er) assessment

for researchers and leaders on researcher assessment
(Gareth O'Neill + Emma Day)

12:00 → 13:00 Light Lunch for morning programme participants

12:00 → 13:00 Registration for Conference

13:00 → 13:30 Conference Opening and Welcome

Martin Svoboda (Director of National Library of Technology)
Helena Langšádlová (Minister of Science, Research and Innovation of the Czech Republic)

Moderator:
Gareth O'Neill (Principal Consultant on Open Science at Technopolis Group)

13:30 → 15:00 Session #1: Reforming Research Assessment

13:30 Reforming research assessment: Rationale, progress made and role of the European Commission

Speaker: Jean-Emmanuel Faurel (Team Leader on Research Assessment at DG RTD, European Commission)

13:45 CoARA Perspective

Speaker: TBC

14:00 Research Assessment in Czech Republic: Getting better but not there yet

Speaker: Tomáš Polívka (Vice-chair of Czech Research, Development, and Innovation Council)

14:15 Open Discussion

With speakers, audience and invited guests:
Pavel Doleček (Deputy Minister for Science, Research and Innovation) and
Šárka Pospíšilová (Vice-rector for research and doctoral studies at Masaryk University)

15:00 → 15:30 Break with Coffee/Tea

15:30 → 17:00 Session #2: Researcher Career Assessment

15:30 Possible impacts of the new approaches to research assessment in the European research careers framework

Speaker: Luisa Henriques (Senior Policy Analyst and Advisor to the Board of Directors at Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia and Sponsor of ERA Action 4)

15:45 Quo vadis, researcher career assessment?

Speaker: Saša Zelenika (Vice-rector at University of Rijeka)

16:00 Researcher Perspective of Research Assessment

Speaker: Brian Cahill (Former Chair of Marie Curie Alumni Association)

16:15 Open Discussion

With speakers, audience and invited guests:
Jan Konvalinka (Director of IOCB Prague) and
Kateřina Sam (Starting ERC Grantee, Biology Centre of the CAS)

17:00 → 21:00 Conference Reception with Drinks

Including Optional Visit in the Library

Friday, 10 November

09:00 → 10:00 Registration for Conference

10:00 → 11:30 Session #3: Research Grant Assessment

10:00 Research assessment in the transition to OS - national and funder perspective

Speaker: Alina Irimia (OS Coordinator at Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development & Innovation in Romania)

10:15 Grant assessment: Lessons learned, open questions and future directions

Speaker: Petr Baldrian (President of Czech Science Foundation)

10:30 Research grant assessment for sustainable researcher careers

Speaker: Sebastian Dahle (President of Eurodoc)

10:45 Open Discussion

With speakers, audience and invited quests:
Martin Bunček (Managing Director of Technology Agency of the Czech Republic)

11:30 → 12:00 Break with Coffee/Tea

12:00 → 13:00 Panel Discussion: The Future of Research(er) Assessment

Clifford Tatum (Researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University)
Reda Cimmperman (Scientific Secretary of the Research Council of Lithuania)
Isabel Rocha (Vice-rector at NOVA University of Lisbon)
Ladislav Krištoufek (Vice-rector for Research at Charles University)
Jiří Homola (Vice-chair of Czech Research, Development, and Innovation Council)
Martin Loebl (Vice-chair of Learned Society of the Czech Republic)

13:00 → 13:15 Closing remarks

13:15 → 14:00 Light Lunch with Drinks