ShareOver 300 people attended the one-day conference event on the assessments of local research in Catalan
The conference organised by AQU Catalunya in the Aula Capella at the University of Barcelona, included two presentations and a round table.
Yesterday, AQU Catalunya held the one-day conference 'Research Assessment: Indicators and Challenges for Local Research and Research in Catalan, which was attended by more than 60 people in person, and followed live by a further 260 via the Agency's YouTube channel in a video that has already accumulated around 700 views. The day, which took place in the Aula Capella of the University of Barcelona and was presented by the director of AQU Catalunya, Jaume Valls Pasola, first of all featured two presentations: Guide to indicators for assessing actions linked to local and regional research study centres and institutes for PDI at Vives Network of Universities delivered by M. Carme Jiménez director of the Ramon Muntaner Institute; and CARHUS Plus+ with an update led by Lluís Rovira, director of evaluation at the Agency for the Management of University and Research Grants (AGAUR).
Afterwards, a round table entitled 'The Evaluation of Research in Catalan' took place, moderated by Marina Massaguer, sociolinguist and linguistic policy advisor at the Department of Research and Universities. Taking part will be Teresa Cabré, president of the Institute of Catalan Studies; Lluís Payrató, lecturer at the University of Barcelona and president of the AQU Catalunya Working Group on scientific publications in Catalan and the concept of quality in the AQU Catalunya accreditation criteria; Mireia Sopena, editor of Edicions at the University of Barcelona; Emili Garcia, full professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Girona, and Oscar Jané, lecturer at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and member of the Board of Trustees of the Ramon Muntaner Institute.
As the director of AQU Catalunya explained at the beginning of the conferences, "the aim of the event is to advance the incorporation of local research and research in Catalan in research assessment and teacher accreditation processes". "The conference was structured around three themes: the Plan to Strengthen the Catalan language in the Catalan Higher Education System, the roll-out of the Organic Law on the University System, which also addresses these issues, and finally the development of the CoARA platform, which promotes a more multidimensional perspective on research assessment at European level", he added.
You can retrieve the content of the conference here.