The Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) was founded in December 2022. It brings together more than 500  (and growing) research performing organisations, research funders, policy actors and research infrastructures from over 40 countries who join forces to implement the timely reform of research assessment across Europe and beyond. Our vision is to enable a systemic reform of assessment of research, researchers and research organisations that recognises the diverse outputs, practices and activities that maximise the quality and impact of research. This requires basing assessment primarily on qualitative judgement, for which peer review is central, supported by responsible use of quantitative indicators. 

It is based on shared principles, 10 commitments, and a timeframe for reforms. To effectively facilitate the achievement of this goal, member organisations of the CoARA subscribe to the Guiding Principles that underlie and steer the conduct and evolution of the initiative. Keeping the essentially global, transnational nature of research in mind, enabling a systemic change is impossible without the involvement of research and research-related institutions in the broadest possible scope. Therefore, widening the Coalition’s membership in Europe and beyond is a strategic priority for CoARA. 

https://coara.eu/