Action Plan to support the translation of the EU recommendations on research assessment reform (CoARA) into organizational practice at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) 2024-2028 - Part 1: Introduction, Status Quo and Perspectives of internal actors (2024-2025)

Charité and BIH have committed to the Agreement on Research Assessment Reform, which is based on the European Union’s recommendations for reforming research assessment outlined by the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) in 2022. 

This working document is the first in series of iterative action plans that, in total, will outline six action areas relevant to research assessment reform at Charité and BIH.

This Action Plan Part 1 focuses on the Status Quo and Perspectives of internal actors (2024-2025) on the current research assessment system at Charité and BIH, and also provides a background to the CoARA and its policy context.

Parts of the action plan are based on a 2-day virtual brainstorming event with actors at Charité and
BIH that was conducted to introduce CoARA and to discuss internal perspectives on research assessment reform. This first version of part 1 of the action plan is open for comments for Charité and BIH employees and leadership until April 30^th, 2025. A revised version (version 2.0) will be published afterwards.

Corresponding author: Miriam Kip (miriam.kip@bih-charite.de or coara@bih-charite.de)