The Aragon Agency for Quality Assurance and Strategic Foresight in Higher Education (ACPUA) took part in the General Meeting of the Spanish National Chapter of CoARA held on 27 October. The online event brought together more than fifty representatives from institutions committed to advancing research assessment reform in Spain.
During the meeting, participants reviewed the progress made by the National Chapter since its creation, discussed the preliminary results of the ES-CAM repository of institutional initiatives and good practices, and were introduced to the Chapter’s new website https://coara.es/que-es-coara/. Representatives also exchanged views and proposals on awareness-raising, training, mutual learning and inter-institutional coordination to support the implementation of more responsible research assessment models aligned with the principles promoted by CoARA.
ACPUA’s participation in this forum is part of the actions foreseen in its CoARA Action Plan 2024-2028. Within this framework, ACPUA actively contributes to the initiatives promoted by the coalition, particularly through its involvement in the Working Group on Methodologies, while progressively integrating the principles of responsible research assessment into its evaluation activities. This includes promoting greater contextualisation, strengthening qualitative assessment approaches, and encouraging the responsible use of indicators in research evaluation.
