Events
Upcoming Events
22-24/Sep/2025
Responsible Research in Action – QUEST Unconference 2025
A multi-stakeholder unconference to improve research culture and practice.
Participants will work in transdisciplinary project teams to co-create outputs leading to actionable solutions to improve research culture and practice. Potential outputs might include toolboxes, tools, grass roots initiatives, recommendations, or networks. In addition to researchers, teams may include other stakeholders such as publishers, funders, members of institutional leadership.
Participants:
We invite early-career, mid-career and senior researchers, along with other stakeholders such as funders, publishers and editors, regulators, and leaders of research institutions to join our event and think about potential projects that will improve research culture and practice to be discussed during the event.
Date and time:
Pre-conference workshops: September 22, 2025, 2 – 5pm
Main unconference – Inaugural key lecture and come together: September 22, 2025, 5pm
Project work: September 23 – 24, 2025
Location:
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow Klinikum, Berlin, Germany
Keep posted:
More information about the event can be found here.
Institutions:
QUEST Center, Berlin Institute of Health @ Charité, Germany
University of Coimbra, Portugal
Past Events
09/Jul/2024
Interactive workshop:
Using RRIDs and CRediT author contributions statements to improve transparency by Prof. Tracey Weissgerber from the QUEST Center, Berlin Institute of Health @ Charité, Germany.
Exploring RRIDs available for cell lines, model organisms (e.g. mice), antibodies, plasmids, software and tools, and core facilities and learn how to apply them to the different research lines. Gain a deeper understanding of how to write a CRediT authorship statement for an ongoing research project.
Support data: Video on using RRIDs.
Around 35 participants were present in this public workshop, held at the University of Coimbra (CNC – UC-Biotech auditorium).
22/Apr/2024
Interactive data visualization workshop: How to identify and fix common problems
Integrated in the Doctoral Course “ONE HEALTH: A Metabolic Approach from the Cell to Society”
By Prof. Tracey Weissgerber from the QUEST Center, Berlin Institute of Health @ Charité, Germany.
Around 40 participants were present in this public seminar, held at the University of Coimbra (CNC – Polo I auditorium).
06/Feb/2024
Meta-Research seminars:
Forecasting experimental results with ChatGPT by Prof. Thomas Pfeiffer from NZ Institute for Advanced Study, Massey University;
and
Reveal, don’t conceal:
Improving transparency, trustworthiness and reusability in research publications by Dr. Tracey Weissgerber from Berlin Institute of Health @Charité.
These two public seminars were held at the University of Coimbra – Student Hub – with the participation of 15 people.
Seminar poster.
07/Dec/2023
Annual Cochrane Portugal Meeting. Professor John Ioannidis gave a public seminar on systematic reviews and umbrella reviews, shedding light on evidence synthesis. Dr. Paulo Oliveira delved into the ERA Chair EXCELScIOR project, exploring the ‘science of science’ to unravel the quality and real-world impact of research.
The event was held at Polo II – University of Coimbra on December 7th 2023, with the participation of ca. 75 people.
Event on the press (PT) here.
19/Jun/2023
Can we trust meta-analyses in psychology? Real-life meaning of the heterogeneity of effects. Prof. Kinga Bierwiaczonek from the University of Oslo, gave a public seminar at the University of Coimbra – Colégio das Artes – with the participation of 16 people.
Seminar poster.
18/May/2023
Using Unbiased Many-Teams Replication Data to Evaluate Meta-Analytic Estimators. Dr. Amanda Kvarven from Stanford University, gave a public seminar at the Student Hub – University of Coimbra, with the participation of 11 people.
Seminar poster.
26/Apr/2023
Public seminar by Prof. John Ioannidis, under the the topic “Evaluating research practices and the academic reward system” was held at the University of Coimbra – Colégio da Trindade – with the participation of 40 people.
Seminar poster.
