AgroParisTech signs up to DORA and COARA

On December 15, 2022, AgroParisTech, represented by Alexandre Péry, director of research, innovation, and technology transfer, joined the 2,500 or so organizations that have signed the DORA declaration. In addition, further to the Paris Call of February 4, 2022, AgroParisTech joined the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (COARA), a European coalition of research funding agencies, universities, research organizations, and assessment authorities looking to promote a reform of the research assessment system.

In doing so, the institution commits to helping improve research assessment methods and defends, in particular, the need to: 

• end the use of reputation indicators based on journals as factors impacting the funding, recruitment, and promotion of its scientists;
• assess research based on its content and its intrinsic value rather than on the journal in which it is published; 
• take into account all the results of research work (including datasets and software programs), as well as scientific publications, and include in the assessment the benefits of the work for society.

By signing these declarations, AgroParisTech confirms its strong commitment to opening up its research and to assessment that respects the different practices, activities and productions contributing to its quality and impact.