The event "TREASURE: From Pilot to Practice — Exploring Paths for Reproducible, Reusable and Open Research" will mark the end of the CoARA Boost funded project and officially launch the training and certification programme developed, promoting knowledge sharing at institutional, national and international levels.

The event will take place on December 3rd (9h00 - 16h00) at Auditorium 2, StudentHub, Polo 1, University of Coimbra, it will be in English and open to all the UC community and to external institution members.

Registration here

Until November 26, 2025, 5:00 pm

Program

Welcome

  • 9:00: Welcome (Vice-rector for Research, João Ramalho-Santos)

Part 1: Advancing Research Assessment

  • 9:15 Reforming Research Assessment: the Path and Challenges of the Portuguese National Chapter of CoARA (Eugénio Campos Ferreira, University of Minho)

Part 2: Giving context to research assessment

  • 9h45: Challenges in assessment: Reproducibility and Epistemic Diversity (Sven Arend Ulpts, University of Aarhus)

  • 10:15: The role of responsible supervision in transmitting good practice (Tamarinde Haven, Tilburg University)

Coffee break (10:45 – 11:15)

Part 3: Introducing new practices in Research Assessment: implementation cases at the UC

  • 11:15: TREASURE: Rewarding graduate students for implementing reproducible, reusable and open research practices (Inês Almeida and Tracey Weissgerber, University of Coimbra)

Part 4: Introducing new practices in Research Assessment: implementation cases in European institutions

  • 11:45: Amsterdam UMC responsible research strategy (Natalie Evans, Amsterdam UMC) [online]

Lunch Break (12:15 – 14:00)

Part 5: New paths in research assessment in the National Landscape

  • 14:00: OPUS pilot at University NOVA of Lisbon (Eunice Melo and Ana Lebre, University NOVA of Lisbon)

  • 14:30: CoARA Boost CF2 Teaming: Teaming for self-evaluation in research assessment across scales: from researchers to institutions (Mara de Sousa Freitas, Catholic University of Portugal) [online]

  • 14:50: CoARA Boost CF2 Teaming: DIVERSE+: Advancing Diverse and Qualitative Research Assessment Across Europe (Vera Fernandes and Luísa Sal, University of Aveiro)

Part 6: Challenges, achievements and synergies in implementing change

  • 15:10: Panel session: From program creation to implementation (moderator: Tracey Weissgerber). Invited members: TREASURE Local Advisory Board members, TREASURE core team members and University NOVA of Lisbon

Wrap-up: Final notes

  • 15:50: Conclusions and future steps

Coffee break (16:00 – 16:30)

Speakers

Photos of the event