# Research and innovation to provide evidence that support reforms of research assessment
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**topic id:** HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-03
**call id:** HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06
**title:** Research and innovation to provide evidence that support reforms of research assessment
**programme:** Horizon Europe
**cluster:** WIDERA
**status:** closed
**deadline date:** 2025-09-18T00:00:00+00:00
**deadline model:** single-stage
**start date:** 2025-05-15T00:00:00+00:00
**url:** https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-03
**description:** Expected Outcome:The successful proposal will deliver on the following impacts: “More responsible assessment of researchers, research projects and research organisations based on a broader range of research outputs, practices and activities than publications and publishing” and “Improved quality, performance and impact of research, researchers and institutions due to more responsible research assessment systems”.
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
• Increased scientific knowledge on assessment tools and methods, their potential biases and limitations, and corresponding solutions;
• Increased scientific knowledge on methods to reform research assessment;
• Evidence supporting the implementation of the commitments of the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment available to policy makers and research organisations involved in research assessment.
 Scope: 
A global movement is underway to significantly enhance the evaluation process for researchers, research projects and research institutions. The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), the Leiden Manifesto, the Latin American Forum on Research Assessment (FOLEC-CLACSO), and the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment[1] and the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) under Action 3 of the European Research Area Policy Agenda 2022-2024[2] are the main initiatives that strive to shift away from inappropriate reliance on metrics such as the Journal Impact Factor. Instead, they acknowledge the diverse range of research practices, activities and outputs that go beyond publications. They aim to reward practices, activities and outputs that contribute to a higher quality and impact of research, while also recognising and mitigating systemic biases, particularly gender biases, within traditional assessment metrics.
CoARA Working Groups carry out in-depth work to enable signatories of the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment to exchange experiences, learn from each other and identify good practices, thus supporting their efforts to reform research assessment.
The identification of good practices and the implementation of changes to research assessment require solid scientific evidence. This concerns evidence about assessment tools and methods, and exploring issues across disciplines and types of research organisations, such as: best practices in qualitative assessment; making peer review practices less bias-prone and more transparent; lessons learned from pilots with narrative CVs; inappropriate uses of metrics and alternatives for different levels of assessment (of research, of researchers and of research institutions); relevant indicators (that are open) for developing new assessment frameworks; infrastructures and tools needed to base research assessment on FAIR research digital objects (e.g., publications, data, software); ensuring that assessment methods promote diversity and inclusion across genders and underrepresented groups. This also concerns evidence about reform methods and about institutional changes and culture, investigating issues, such as: ensuring readiness and engagement of the scientific community and research organisations to changes; including different disciplinary perspectives; piloting actions that can lead to new assessment practices.
The action aims to provide the evidence needed for the practical implementation of research assessment reforms. It will gather and evaluate existing evidence and carry out additional research activities to support the implementation of the commitments of the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment, in line with the 10 principles for reforms. The action consists of three parts, all of which must be addressed:
• Review existing literature, data and evidence on research assessment practices and evaluate their validity and robustness for implementing the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment.
• Identify gaps in knowledge and prioritise areas that require further research activities to support reforms of research assessment in line with the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment.
• Implement research activities in the prioritised areas.
 The proposals should ensure synergies and complementarities, develop close cooperation, and share knowledge and evidence with CoARA and its Working Groups, the CoARA Boost project, DORA, and other relevant initiatives. The proposals should provide open access to all relevant results as early as possible, with specific efforts to ensure that these results are accessible and relevant to diverse and underrepresented groups.
This action may require the effective contribution of SSH disciplines and the involvement of SSH experts, institutions as well as the inclusion of relevant SSH expertise, in order to produce meaningful and significant effects enhancing the societal impact of the related research activities[3].
The duration of this action should not exceed 3 years.
[1] https://coara.eu/app/uploads/2022/09/2022_07_19_rra_agreement_final.pdf.
[2] https://commission.europa.eu/system/files/2021-11/ec_rtd_era-policy-agenda-2021.pdf.
[3] https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/research-area/social-sciences-and-humanities/ssh-integration_en.
**conditions:** General conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
described in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes.
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.

2. Eligible Countries
described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.
A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.

3. Other Eligible Conditions
described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.

4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes.

5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes.

5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
are described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual.

5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes.

6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes.

Specific conditions
 described in the specific topic of the Work Programme.

Application and evaluation forms and model grant agreement (MGA):
 Application form templates — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System
Standard application form (HE RIA, IA) 
Evaluation form templates — will be used with the necessary adaptations 
Standard evaluation form (HE RIA, IA)  
Guidance
HE Programme Guide 
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
HE MGA 

Additional documents:
 HE Main Work Programme 2023–2025 – 1. General Introduction
HE Main Work Programme 2023–2025 – 11. Widening participation and strengthening the European Research Area
HE Main Work Programme 2023–2025 – 13. General Annexes 
HE Programme Guide 
HE Framework Programme 2021/695 
HE Specific Programme Decision 2021/764 
EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment 
EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement 
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual 
Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions 
Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement
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**keywords:** HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-03, HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06
**last synced at:** 2026-11-09T17:23:17.403+00:00

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