📅 Date: 11 September 2025
🏁 Start: 11:30 – 13:30 h EEST
📍 Location: online
🎯 Type: Webinar
🧑🚀 Participants: researchers, policy makers, NGO representatives, librarians
🎤 Working Language: The event will be bilingual (in English and in Bulgarian) without a translation option.
🎟️ Resume: The AURA Open Impact Session explores how Open Impact reshapes research assessment and knowledge transfer. The programme brings together international experts, policy makers, librarians, and researchers.
The webinar focuses on an open impact and its role in research assessment, providing in-depth knowledge and skills in addressing policy development and implementation, supporting research excellence, integrity, and responsible assessment across universities. The webinar aims to strengthen global engagement with Open Science and its transformative impact on society.
The key speakers are Dr Devon McHugh, Research Policy Manager and Ms Grace Murkett,
Research Policy Officer at Strathclyde University – Glasgow.
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.
Programme
11:30 - 12:00
Opening
Assos. Prof. Milena Dobreva, Strathclyde University – Glasgow
12:00 - 12:45
Invited Talk: Introduction to Measuring Research Impact and the Role of Open Science to Boosting and Documenting Impact
Dr Devon McHugh, Strathclyde University – Glasgow
Ms Grace Murkett, Strathclyde University – Glasgow
12:45 - 13:00
Co-design and discussion (in Bulgarian)