Events
Upcoming Events
25/Jun/2025
Meta-Research Seminar – Meta-research for More Reliable Ecology and Evolution
Join us for a seminar by Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar (Bielefeld University – Germany) exploring how Meta-Research can enhance transparency, reproducibility, and robustness in ecological and evolutionary science.
Date & Time:
June 25, 2025 | 16:00
Location:
University of Coimbra, CNC-UC Auditorium, 2nd Floor, Polo I
About the Talk:
This seminar will explore the use of Meta-Research to improve the quality and practices of ecological and evolutionary studies. Drawing on recent Meta-Research findings, the talk will highlight the need for more meta-analyses in these fields. It will present opportunities to develop tools and collaborative frameworks that foster rigorous, transparent, and cumulative research.
26/Jun/2025
Meta-Research Seminar – Community Data Governance in Open Data Frameworks
Join us online for a seminar by Pragya Chaube (Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL), UPES – India) on how community-driven data governance can promote equity and responsibility within open data frameworks.
Date & Time:
June 13, 2025 | 15:00 WEST (UTC+1)
Location:
Online via Zoom
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About the Speaker:
Pragya Chaube is Assistant Professor at UPES, India, specializing in responsible research, open science, and inclusive governance. She brings interdisciplinary expertise from genetics, bioinformatics, and science communication.
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
