📅 Date: 18 June 2025
🏁 Start: 12:00 h
📍 Location: online
🎯 Type: Webinar 01
🧑🚀 Participants: university administration, researchers
🎤 Working Language: English
🎟️ Resume: The first webinar explores the possibilities of open peer review in the research assessment process. The event is organised by the AURA project, which has been funded via a cascading grant of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) and focuses on Bulgaria.
The webinar focuses on an open peer review and its role in research evaluation, providing in-depth knowledge and skills in addressing reliability, transparency, and standardisation in the peer review system.
The key speaker is Prof. Eva Mendez, an Associate Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. She served as Chair of the EC Open Science Policy Platform from 2018 to 2020. Member of the CoARA Steering Board.
Programme
12:00 - 12:30
Opening
Yanita Zherkova, Research Directorate MES
Assos. Prof. Bilyana Yavrukova, Director, Sofia University Library "St. Kliment Ohridski"
Prof. Petar Stanchev, Kettering University
12:30 - 13:15
Invited Talk: Open Peer Review and its Role in Research Evaluation
Prof. Eva Mendez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
13:15 - 14:00
Co-design and discussion (in Bulgarian)
Speakers
Prof. Eva Mendez is an Associate Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. She was Chair of the EC Open Science Policy Platform (2018-2020). Member of the CoARA Steering Board.