Dear RDA member,

We are pleased to announce an upcoming international webinar: ‘From self-evaluation to institutional change: checklists, case studies, and survey design for responsible research assessment in the Age of AI’ tomorrow Wednesday 15 April 2026; 12:00 to 13:30 UTC; 14:00 to 15:30 CEST Brussels time. Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Ax-XeJYPRY-6AMH8UmnRXg The programme is attached.

This webinar develops out of the RDA Plenary 26 Joint Birds of a Feather Session organized by EOSC-Future/RDA AIDV & CoARA BOOST SE4RA ‘BoF: SE4RA: Engaging a United Nations IDSSD global community of practice for responsible research assessment’ (https://www.rd-alliance.org/members/francis-p-crawley/plenary-participation/?application_id=224237) on Wednesday 13 March. It also includes learnings from two other P26 sessions: ‘Recognising shared contributions for resilient research: advancing rewards and credit in open science’ (https://www.rd-alliance.org/group-session-app/recognising-shared-contributions-for-resilient-research-advancing-rewards-and-credit-in-open-science/) and ‘From ethics to tools: AI governance in support of research data resilience’ (https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/artificial-intelligence-and-data-visitation-aidv-wg/plenary-participation/?application_id=223553). See the attached report.

Tomorrow’s 90-minute session is organised by the CoARA Working Group on Ethics and Research Integrity Policy in Responsible Research Assessment for Data and Artificial Intelligence (ERIP) and the CoARA Boost SE4RA Project in collaboration with the Research Data Alliance and partner institutions.

Research assessment is undergoing significant transformation in the context of AI, data-intensive research, and open science. This webinar focuses on how the RDA community, working together with other institutions, can move from principles to practice by applying ethics-centred self-evaluation approaches to research assessment. It is focused on how the RDA community can develop pathways of implementation for real institutional change.

We look forward to your participation.

On behalf of the organizing team,

Francis P. Crawley
Co-chair & Principal Investigator, EOSC-Future/RDA Artificial Intelligence & Data Visitation Working Group (AIDV-WG)
Co-Chair, RDA SHARC Interest Group
Co-chair and Coordinator, CoARA ERIP
CoARA’s Ethics and Research Integrity Policy for Responsible Research Assessment
in Data and Artificial Intelligence (ERIP) Working Group
Member, Steering Group of the International Science Council (ISC) Forum
on Publishing and Research Assessment
Leuven, Belgium