CoARA – Action plan od CAS regarding research assessment

Czech Academy of Sciences published CAORA Action Plan: Towards the advanced research assessment of the CAS institutes and their research teams. CAS joined the  Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) in 2022 by signing Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment (ARRA).

The action plan describes activities and identifies main objectives leading to implementing the ARRA principles and describes challenges specific for research assesment at CAS.

The action plan identifies also objectives and actions regarding Open Science. One of the main objectives is stated as

7. Include Open Science in assessment and support the institutes in their conceptual approach to the principles of Open Science.

Akční plán k reformě hodnocení výzkumu v AV ČR, p 4

There are also operational actions related to Open Science:

1.4 Support the implementation of Open Science principles with emphasis on the involvement of researchers from the CAS institutes in specific roles enabling effective implementation of Open Science in the institute.

Akční plán k reformě hodnocení výzkumu v AV ČR, p 5

6.1.5 Appreciate the application of Open Science practices in the evaluation and for this purpose set up a set of recommendations at the CAS level that will enable the development of systems to support Open Science and the implementation of its principles at all CAS institutes.

Akční plán k reformě hodnocení výzkumu v AV ČR, p 7