OPUS Deliverable 4.2 Mutual Learning Exercise on the Pilots-Initial

The OPUS project is developing coordination and support measures for organisations to reform research assessment with a focus on recognising and rewarding researchers who contribute to Open Science (OS). The main aim of the project is to develop a framework for researcher assessment, consisting of indicators with a focus on OS, and corresponding interventions for organisations to implement the framework. The framework i.e., the Researcher Assessment Framework, hereafter the RAF and its supporting interventions will be tested in pilots and refined in consultation with the research community. The RAF provides a first draft of a framework that offers a comprehensive suite of indicators and metrics for research-performing organisations (RPOs) to assess researchers in an academic context. This includes assessing researchers applying for positions at an RPO, assessing researchers in their career development and progression at an RPO, and assessing project applications and progression by researchers at an RPO or research-funding organisation (RFO). The framework includes an Open Science dimension, whereby Open Science practices are explicitly recognised and rewarded. The implementation of the framework is supported by accompanying interventions for RPOs and RFOs. Greater insights on the first draft of the RAF and its related interventions to support its implementation at RPOs and RFOs can be found in deliverable D3.1 on Indicators and Metrics to Test in the Pilots, and D2.1 on Interventions to Test in the Pilots. The three RPOs (UNL, UCY, and UNIRI) and two RFOs (UEFISCDI and RCL) have selected and tailored indicators from D3.1 and corresponding interventions from D2.1 to test in each of their pilots.