YERUN
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Founded in 2015 and based in Brussels, YERUN - Young European Research Universities Network - brings together 24 like-minded young research universities from 18 European countries. https://yerun.eu
🎄 Spark 10 | Reflections & Christmas Wishes from YERUN 🎄
As we reach the tenth (and final!) edition of #SparksOfYERUN, we’re closing a remarkable first decade of YERUN with both celebration and reflection.
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#YERUN10
As we reach the tenth (and final!) edition of #SparksOfYERUN, we’re closing a remarkable first decade of YERUN with both celebration and reflection.
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#YERUN10
December 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
🎄 Spark 10 | Reflections & Christmas Wishes from YERUN 🎄
As we reach the tenth (and final!) edition of #SparksOfYERUN, we’re closing a remarkable first decade of YERUN with both celebration and reflection.
🔗 lnkd.in/evwVWkyr
💌 lnkd.in/erpqxuMs
#YERUN10
As we reach the tenth (and final!) edition of #SparksOfYERUN, we’re closing a remarkable first decade of YERUN with both celebration and reflection.
🔗 lnkd.in/evwVWkyr
💌 lnkd.in/erpqxuMs
#YERUN10
⏳ “Narrative evaluations are too time-consuming to be practical.”
Sure, they take longer than ticking boxes.
But so does doing justice to someone’s work.
Explore the YERUN x CoARA Advent Calendar below.
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Sure, they take longer than ticking boxes.
But so does doing justice to someone’s work.
Explore the YERUN x CoARA Advent Calendar below.
🍫 yerun.eu/2025/12/adve...
December 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
⏳ “Narrative evaluations are too time-consuming to be practical.”
Sure, they take longer than ticking boxes.
But so does doing justice to someone’s work.
Explore the YERUN x CoARA Advent Calendar below.
🍫 yerun.eu/2025/12/adve...
Sure, they take longer than ticking boxes.
But so does doing justice to someone’s work.
Explore the YERUN x CoARA Advent Calendar below.
🍫 yerun.eu/2025/12/adve...
📣 On 12 December, YERUN Policy Officer Myrto Kourouni took part in the NOVA Science & Innovation Day!
🔎 In her intervention, she highlighted YERUN’s joint work with major university networks to propose a coordinated set of amendments for #FP10.
🔎 In her intervention, she highlighted YERUN’s joint work with major university networks to propose a coordinated set of amendments for #FP10.
December 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
📣 On 12 December, YERUN Policy Officer Myrto Kourouni took part in the NOVA Science & Innovation Day!
🔎 In her intervention, she highlighted YERUN’s joint work with major university networks to propose a coordinated set of amendments for #FP10.
🔎 In her intervention, she highlighted YERUN’s joint work with major university networks to propose a coordinated set of amendments for #FP10.
🔎On 16 January, YERUN will host a members only meeting on the RESAVER Pension Fund, the pan-European pension solution designed to support research organisations and their employees 👇
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December 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM
🔎On 16 January, YERUN will host a members only meeting on the RESAVER Pension Fund, the pan-European pension solution designed to support research organisations and their employees 👇
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Christmas is almost here, and while it feels like we’re transcending time… let’s make sure we’re also transcending silos. 🎄🧩
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December 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Christmas is almost here, and while it feels like we’re transcending time… let’s make sure we’re also transcending silos. 🎄🧩
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"Research assessment is solely the responsibility of researchers and evaluators.” ❌
Assessment doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It lives in policies, procedures, timelines, and institutional priorities. 🎛️
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Assessment doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It lives in policies, procedures, timelines, and institutional priorities. 🎛️
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December 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
"Research assessment is solely the responsibility of researchers and evaluators.” ❌
Assessment doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It lives in policies, procedures, timelines, and institutional priorities. 🎛️
🍫 yerun.eu/2025/12/adve...
Assessment doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It lives in policies, procedures, timelines, and institutional priorities. 🎛️
🍫 yerun.eu/2025/12/adve...
“Ranking companies are independent evaluators dedicated to informing the public about university quality.”
It’s a comforting story, and also a profitable one. 💼📊
Ranking organisations aren’t neutral referees. They’re businesses.
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It’s a comforting story, and also a profitable one. 💼📊
Ranking organisations aren’t neutral referees. They’re businesses.
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December 14, 2025 at 7:14 AM
“Ranking companies are independent evaluators dedicated to informing the public about university quality.”
It’s a comforting story, and also a profitable one. 💼📊
Ranking organisations aren’t neutral referees. They’re businesses.
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It’s a comforting story, and also a profitable one. 💼📊
Ranking organisations aren’t neutral referees. They’re businesses.
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“TDR research can be fairly evaluated at the proposal stage by standard disciplinary review panels.” ❌
A strong proposal review needs experts, but also people with transdisciplinary experience, multidisciplinary generalists and non-academics who can asses relevance & feasibility beyond academia.
A strong proposal review needs experts, but also people with transdisciplinary experience, multidisciplinary generalists and non-academics who can asses relevance & feasibility beyond academia.
December 13, 2025 at 7:33 AM
“TDR research can be fairly evaluated at the proposal stage by standard disciplinary review panels.” ❌
A strong proposal review needs experts, but also people with transdisciplinary experience, multidisciplinary generalists and non-academics who can asses relevance & feasibility beyond academia.
A strong proposal review needs experts, but also people with transdisciplinary experience, multidisciplinary generalists and non-academics who can asses relevance & feasibility beyond academia.
“Science is neutral and free of bias.”
If only. Plot twist: science is done by humans, not snowpeople. ☃️
Recognising bias doesn’t mean losing trust in science. It means taking responsibility for how we assess it.
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If only. Plot twist: science is done by humans, not snowpeople. ☃️
Recognising bias doesn’t mean losing trust in science. It means taking responsibility for how we assess it.
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December 12, 2025 at 7:33 AM
“Science is neutral and free of bias.”
If only. Plot twist: science is done by humans, not snowpeople. ☃️
Recognising bias doesn’t mean losing trust in science. It means taking responsibility for how we assess it.
🎄 lnkd.in/dKzeUFCn
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If only. Plot twist: science is done by humans, not snowpeople. ☃️
Recognising bias doesn’t mean losing trust in science. It means taking responsibility for how we assess it.
🎄 lnkd.in/dKzeUFCn
🍫 lnkd.in/d2vfPS_u
“Rankings make universities improve.”
Or do they just make everyone really good at… playing the rankings game? 🎲
When energy goes into looking good in a table, it’s not going into being good for students, staff etc. Real improvement comes from changing practices, environments and opportunities. ✨
Or do they just make everyone really good at… playing the rankings game? 🎲
When energy goes into looking good in a table, it’s not going into being good for students, staff etc. Real improvement comes from changing practices, environments and opportunities. ✨
December 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
“Rankings make universities improve.”
Or do they just make everyone really good at… playing the rankings game? 🎲
When energy goes into looking good in a table, it’s not going into being good for students, staff etc. Real improvement comes from changing practices, environments and opportunities. ✨
Or do they just make everyone really good at… playing the rankings game? 🎲
When energy goes into looking good in a table, it’s not going into being good for students, staff etc. Real improvement comes from changing practices, environments and opportunities. ✨
“Inclusive practices lower the bar”.
Says who?
Usually, the ones who were fine with the bar set at their height.
Inclusive practices don’t lower the bar, but the 𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀 to excellence. 🏋️
Today we’re unwrapping how inclusion raises quality, not quotas.
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Says who?
Usually, the ones who were fine with the bar set at their height.
Inclusive practices don’t lower the bar, but the 𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀 to excellence. 🏋️
Today we’re unwrapping how inclusion raises quality, not quotas.
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December 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“Inclusive practices lower the bar”.
Says who?
Usually, the ones who were fine with the bar set at their height.
Inclusive practices don’t lower the bar, but the 𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀 to excellence. 🏋️
Today we’re unwrapping how inclusion raises quality, not quotas.
🎄 lnkd.in/dKzeUFCn
🍫 lnkd.in/d2vfPS_u
Says who?
Usually, the ones who were fine with the bar set at their height.
Inclusive practices don’t lower the bar, but the 𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀 to excellence. 🏋️
Today we’re unwrapping how inclusion raises quality, not quotas.
🎄 lnkd.in/dKzeUFCn
🍫 lnkd.in/d2vfPS_u
Citation is one of the first things that comes to mind when we talk about research, but does the count really… count? 1️⃣ 2️⃣ 3️⃣
“Highly cited” doesn’t always mean most original or most useful for society, and important work in smaller fields can be overlooked.
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“Highly cited” doesn’t always mean most original or most useful for society, and important work in smaller fields can be overlooked.
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December 9, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Citation is one of the first things that comes to mind when we talk about research, but does the count really… count? 1️⃣ 2️⃣ 3️⃣
“Highly cited” doesn’t always mean most original or most useful for society, and important work in smaller fields can be overlooked.
🎄 lnkd.in/dKzeUFCn
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“Highly cited” doesn’t always mean most original or most useful for society, and important work in smaller fields can be overlooked.
🎄 lnkd.in/dKzeUFCn
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“If evaluations start valuing more than publications, researchers will stop publishing.”
Researchers don’t publish only because they have to. Most publish because they want to share their findings. 📖
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Researchers don’t publish only because they have to. Most publish because they want to share their findings. 📖
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December 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
“If evaluations start valuing more than publications, researchers will stop publishing.”
Researchers don’t publish only because they have to. Most publish because they want to share their findings. 📖
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Researchers don’t publish only because they have to. Most publish because they want to share their findings. 📖
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🍫 lnkd.in/d2vfPS_u
“Students need rankings to choose where to study.”
If that was true, no one could have gone to university before rankings were invented.
Students don’t need rankings. They need good, honest information, and the space to decide what matters most to them.
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If that was true, no one could have gone to university before rankings were invented.
Students don’t need rankings. They need good, honest information, and the space to decide what matters most to them.
🎄 lnkd.in/dKzeUFCn
🍫 lnkd.in/d2vfPS_u
December 7, 2025 at 8:36 AM
“Students need rankings to choose where to study.”
If that was true, no one could have gone to university before rankings were invented.
Students don’t need rankings. They need good, honest information, and the space to decide what matters most to them.
🎄 lnkd.in/dKzeUFCn
🍫 lnkd.in/d2vfPS_u
If that was true, no one could have gone to university before rankings were invented.
Students don’t need rankings. They need good, honest information, and the space to decide what matters most to them.
🎄 lnkd.in/dKzeUFCn
🍫 lnkd.in/d2vfPS_u
“English equals excellence.”
No. That’s just… wrong.
Excellence doesn’t have an accent.
If our assessments can’t see past one language, it’s the assessment that needs improvement, not the research.
Check our advent calendar below!
❄️ Website: lnkd.in/dKzeUFCn
☃️ Calendar: lnkd.in/d2vfPS_u
No. That’s just… wrong.
Excellence doesn’t have an accent.
If our assessments can’t see past one language, it’s the assessment that needs improvement, not the research.
Check our advent calendar below!
❄️ Website: lnkd.in/dKzeUFCn
☃️ Calendar: lnkd.in/d2vfPS_u
December 6, 2025 at 7:33 AM
“English equals excellence.”
No. That’s just… wrong.
Excellence doesn’t have an accent.
If our assessments can’t see past one language, it’s the assessment that needs improvement, not the research.
Check our advent calendar below!
❄️ Website: lnkd.in/dKzeUFCn
☃️ Calendar: lnkd.in/d2vfPS_u
No. That’s just… wrong.
Excellence doesn’t have an accent.
If our assessments can’t see past one language, it’s the assessment that needs improvement, not the research.
Check our advent calendar below!
❄️ Website: lnkd.in/dKzeUFCn
☃️ Calendar: lnkd.in/d2vfPS_u
🎄 It’s Friday, time for a plot… TURN. 😉
Today’s door in YERUN’s Research Assessment Advent Calendar opens onto the world of global league tables.
Open today’s door and keep an eye on the calendar in the following days!
❄️ Website: lnkd.in/dKzeUFCn
☃️ Interactive calendar: lnkd.in/d2vfPS_u
Today’s door in YERUN’s Research Assessment Advent Calendar opens onto the world of global league tables.
Open today’s door and keep an eye on the calendar in the following days!
❄️ Website: lnkd.in/dKzeUFCn
☃️ Interactive calendar: lnkd.in/d2vfPS_u
December 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
🎄 It’s Friday, time for a plot… TURN. 😉
Today’s door in YERUN’s Research Assessment Advent Calendar opens onto the world of global league tables.
Open today’s door and keep an eye on the calendar in the following days!
❄️ Website: lnkd.in/dKzeUFCn
☃️ Interactive calendar: lnkd.in/d2vfPS_u
Today’s door in YERUN’s Research Assessment Advent Calendar opens onto the world of global league tables.
Open today’s door and keep an eye on the calendar in the following days!
❄️ Website: lnkd.in/dKzeUFCn
☃️ Interactive calendar: lnkd.in/d2vfPS_u
🎄 4 December is for… four-getting the myth of objectivity!
Explore today’s door in YERUN’s Research Assessment Advent Calendar, co-created with several CoARA Working Groups.
❄️ Website: lnkd.in/dTSmdNs4
☃️ Interactive calendar: lnkd.in/d2vfPS_u
Explore today’s door in YERUN’s Research Assessment Advent Calendar, co-created with several CoARA Working Groups.
❄️ Website: lnkd.in/dTSmdNs4
☃️ Interactive calendar: lnkd.in/d2vfPS_u
December 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🎄 4 December is for… four-getting the myth of objectivity!
Explore today’s door in YERUN’s Research Assessment Advent Calendar, co-created with several CoARA Working Groups.
❄️ Website: lnkd.in/dTSmdNs4
☃️ Interactive calendar: lnkd.in/d2vfPS_u
Explore today’s door in YERUN’s Research Assessment Advent Calendar, co-created with several CoARA Working Groups.
❄️ Website: lnkd.in/dTSmdNs4
☃️ Interactive calendar: lnkd.in/d2vfPS_u
🎁 December is on fast-forward!
Today’s door of YERUN’s Research Assessment Advent Calendar looks at a blind spot in how we measure research.
Curious to see how this plays out in our calendar? Open today’s door:
❄️ Website: lnkd.in/dTSmdNs4
☃️ Interactive calendar: lnkd.in/d2vfPS_u
Today’s door of YERUN’s Research Assessment Advent Calendar looks at a blind spot in how we measure research.
Curious to see how this plays out in our calendar? Open today’s door:
❄️ Website: lnkd.in/dTSmdNs4
☃️ Interactive calendar: lnkd.in/d2vfPS_u
December 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
🎁 December is on fast-forward!
Today’s door of YERUN’s Research Assessment Advent Calendar looks at a blind spot in how we measure research.
Curious to see how this plays out in our calendar? Open today’s door:
❄️ Website: lnkd.in/dTSmdNs4
☃️ Interactive calendar: lnkd.in/d2vfPS_u
Today’s door of YERUN’s Research Assessment Advent Calendar looks at a blind spot in how we measure research.
Curious to see how this plays out in our calendar? Open today’s door:
❄️ Website: lnkd.in/dTSmdNs4
☃️ Interactive calendar: lnkd.in/d2vfPS_u
🔔 Day 2 is here!
Yesterday we looked at metrics. Today, we open the second door with a reminder that languages in science is just as important!
Discover this and the rest of the 24 myths & truths here:
❄️ Article: lnkd.in/dTSmdNs4
☃️ Interactive calendar: lnkd.in/d2vfPS_u
Yesterday we looked at metrics. Today, we open the second door with a reminder that languages in science is just as important!
Discover this and the rest of the 24 myths & truths here:
❄️ Article: lnkd.in/dTSmdNs4
☃️ Interactive calendar: lnkd.in/d2vfPS_u
December 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
🔔 Day 2 is here!
Yesterday we looked at metrics. Today, we open the second door with a reminder that languages in science is just as important!
Discover this and the rest of the 24 myths & truths here:
❄️ Article: lnkd.in/dTSmdNs4
☃️ Interactive calendar: lnkd.in/d2vfPS_u
Yesterday we looked at metrics. Today, we open the second door with a reminder that languages in science is just as important!
Discover this and the rest of the 24 myths & truths here:
❄️ Article: lnkd.in/dTSmdNs4
☃️ Interactive calendar: lnkd.in/d2vfPS_u
🎄 From 1 to 24 December, we’ll be sharing 24 myths about research assessment and the truths that debunk them.
Explore the full interactive calendar, co-created with several CoARA Working Groups, and discover a new myth & truth every day!
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☃️ lnkd.in/d2vfPS_u
Explore the full interactive calendar, co-created with several CoARA Working Groups, and discover a new myth & truth every day!
❄️ lnkd.in/dTSmdNs4
☃️ lnkd.in/d2vfPS_u
December 3, 2025 at 10:03 AM
🎄 From 1 to 24 December, we’ll be sharing 24 myths about research assessment and the truths that debunk them.
Explore the full interactive calendar, co-created with several CoARA Working Groups, and discover a new myth & truth every day!
❄️ lnkd.in/dTSmdNs4
☃️ lnkd.in/d2vfPS_u
Explore the full interactive calendar, co-created with several CoARA Working Groups, and discover a new myth & truth every day!
❄️ lnkd.in/dTSmdNs4
☃️ lnkd.in/d2vfPS_u
📣Today, YERUN, together with @cesaer-eu.bsky.social y.social, @coimbragroup.bsky.social roup.bsky.social, @eua.eu , @eu-life.bsky.social, @guildeu.bsky.social and LERU presents a coordinated set of amendments to the European Commission’s proposals for the FP10👇
yerun.eu/publication/...
yerun.eu/publication/...
December 1, 2025 at 9:13 AM
📣Today, YERUN, together with @cesaer-eu.bsky.social y.social, @coimbragroup.bsky.social roup.bsky.social, @eua.eu , @eu-life.bsky.social, @guildeu.bsky.social and LERU presents a coordinated set of amendments to the European Commission’s proposals for the FP10👇
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yerun.eu/publication/...
📣Proud to see YERUN member Universidade Nova de Lisboa represented at the European Commission conference “From Knowledge to Impact”, where Vice-Rector Isabel Rocha spoke in the panel “From Research to Market: Towards a Blueprint on Licensing and Spinoff Creation”!
November 13, 2025 at 10:31 AM
📣Proud to see YERUN member Universidade Nova de Lisboa represented at the European Commission conference “From Knowledge to Impact”, where Vice-Rector Isabel Rocha spoke in the panel “From Research to Market: Towards a Blueprint on Licensing and Spinoff Creation”!
👀During #OAWeek, the YERUN ad hoc group on Open Science hosted a great webinar “#ArtificialIntelligence in #OpenScience”, with brilliant speakers from across Europe.
Access the article and the recording 👇
yerun.eu/2025/10/arti...
Access the article and the recording 👇
yerun.eu/2025/10/arti...
October 22, 2025 at 11:10 AM
👀During #OAWeek, the YERUN ad hoc group on Open Science hosted a great webinar “#ArtificialIntelligence in #OpenScience”, with brilliant speakers from across Europe.
Access the article and the recording 👇
yerun.eu/2025/10/arti...
Access the article and the recording 👇
yerun.eu/2025/10/arti...
⏰ The wait is over.
👀 Today we talk about what happens when #ArtificialIntelligence meets #OpenScience.
💻 Registration open until the event starts: lnkd.in/dA_4xG7i
🔗 More info: lnkd.in/d-_tGYfN
👀 Today we talk about what happens when #ArtificialIntelligence meets #OpenScience.
💻 Registration open until the event starts: lnkd.in/dA_4xG7i
🔗 More info: lnkd.in/d-_tGYfN
October 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
⏰ The wait is over.
👀 Today we talk about what happens when #ArtificialIntelligence meets #OpenScience.
💻 Registration open until the event starts: lnkd.in/dA_4xG7i
🔗 More info: lnkd.in/d-_tGYfN
👀 Today we talk about what happens when #ArtificialIntelligence meets #OpenScience.
💻 Registration open until the event starts: lnkd.in/dA_4xG7i
🔗 More info: lnkd.in/d-_tGYfN
‼️Tomorrow is not just another Tuesday! It is the day the YERUN webinar “ #ArtificialIntelligence in #OpenScience” takes place.
🗓 21 October | 15:00–16:30 CEST
💻 Online webinar | Registration open until we begin
🔗 yerun.eu/2025/10/arti...
🗓 21 October | 15:00–16:30 CEST
💻 Online webinar | Registration open until we begin
🔗 yerun.eu/2025/10/arti...
October 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
‼️Tomorrow is not just another Tuesday! It is the day the YERUN webinar “ #ArtificialIntelligence in #OpenScience” takes place.
🗓 21 October | 15:00–16:30 CEST
💻 Online webinar | Registration open until we begin
🔗 yerun.eu/2025/10/arti...
🗓 21 October | 15:00–16:30 CEST
💻 Online webinar | Registration open until we begin
🔗 yerun.eu/2025/10/arti...