Working Group:
Reforming Academic Career Assessment
Contact: Rita Morais rita.morais@eua.eu

Introduction
Objectives:
The Working Group on Reforming Academic Career Assessment (ACA) is based on the premisethat ACA systems should adequately reflect the different tasks, functions and roles academics
fulfil over the course of their career. The aim is to broaden the reflection on research assessment
to ACA, taking into account the full range of work conducted by academics in research, teachingand learning, innovation, management/leadership and service to society.
The WG brings together a critical mass of academic stakeholders to 1) define the objectives andprinciples of reforming ACA, from the perspectives of institutions and academic staff being
assessed, and to 2) develop an adaptable toolbox for ACA, considering all university missions andthe broad scope of activities, skills and competences of academic staff at different stages of theircareer. The toolbox will be flexible, sustainable and cater for different institutional profiles andnational contexts. It will also provide room for a diversity of career focuses and trajectories.
This WG allows for comprehensive and systematic dialogue on the objectives and principles ofreforming ACA, with a large number of organisations with different profiles, from different
countries, with varying degrees of autonomy and at different stages in their career assessment
reform. The group comprises over 30 members representing the diversity of stakeholders
involved in reforming ACA (e.g. national and European university associations, individualuniversities, researchers’ organisations, learned societies, research centres, agencies for theevaluation of universities, research institutes). This WG is a collegial and safe environment fororganisations to share experiences, best practices, challenges and unexpected outcomes whenreforming ACA.
The Working Group is co-chair by the European University Association (EUA) and the Young
Academy of Europe (YAE).

List of all affiliated organisations
European University Association (EUA) – Europe
Young Academy of Europe (YAE) – Europe

University associations/networks:
Alliance of Rhine-Main Universities - Germany
Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions (SUHF) - Sweden
Berlin University Alliance - Germany
Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland (CRASP) - Poland
Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (Crue) - Spain
European University Association-Council for Doctoral Education (EUA-CDE) - EuropeFlemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR) - Belgium
France Universités - France
Hungarian Rectors’ Conference (HRC) - Hungary
Lithuanian University Rectors’ Conference - Lithuania
swissuniversities - Switzerland
Universities Norway - Norway
Universities of The Netherlands (UNL) - Netherlands
Young European Research Universities Network (YERUN) - Europe
Individual universities:
Nicolaus Copernicus University - Poland
NOVA University Lisbon - Portugal
South East Technological University - Ireland
Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje - North Macedonia
Technical University of Braunschweig - Germany
Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA) - France
University Medical Center Groningen - Netherlands
University of Graz - Austria

2University of Rijeka (UNIRI) - Croatia
Associations of research centres:
EU-LIFE, alliance of leading research institutes in the life sciences in Europe - Europe
Associations of researchers:
European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers (Eurodoc) - Europe
European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA) - Europe
Global Young Academy (GYA) - Global
Learned societies:
Federation of Finnish Learned Societies (TSV) - Finland
National/regional authorities:
Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (ANVUR) - Italy
Other relevant not-for-profit organisations:
CRAC-Vitae - Global

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