Speakers’ presentations

Welcome and Opening Adress

Omar Azziman, President, Higher Council for Education, Training and Scientific Research (HCETSR)

Introductory Address to the Symposium

Rahma Bourqia, Director, National Authority of Evaluation (HCETSR)

«Research Evaluation Transformation»

Yves Gingras, University Professor, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada

“Tools and Mechanisms for the Evaluation of Scientific Outputs in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences: Issues and limits”

Mohammed Sghir Janjar, Deputy Director, King Abdul Aziz Foundation for Islamic Studies and Human Sciences, Casablanca, Morocco

«Evaluation needs and university rankings: Uneasy mutual dependence»

Jan Sadlak, President, IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence, Paris, France

«From Benchmarking to Citations Indicators: Limits of Using Automated Metrics in research evaluation»

Mohamed Najim, Professor Emeritus, National Polytechnical Institute & University of Bordeaux, France

«European experiences with national research evaluation systems»

Gunnar Sivertsen, Research Professor and Head of Bibliometric Research, Nordic Institute of Studies in innovation, Research and Education, oslo, Norway

«Research on the Arab World and the lack of social impact»

Sari Hanafi, Professor, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

«Assessing social impact: challenges and possibilities»

Marta Soler-Gallart, University Professor, University of Barcelona, Spain

«Evaluating Social Science and Humanities Research Between Quality and Metrics»

Seteny Shami, Managing Director, Arab Council for the Social Sciences, Beirut, Lebanon

How to evaluate the difference between raw science and refined science?

Mohammed Bamyeh, University Professor, University of Pittsburg, USA

«Graduate schools and research networks in Brazil»

Carlos Aragão de Carvalho, University Professor, Directorate General for Nuclear and Technological Development of the Brazilian Navy, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

«A decade of Research Evaluation in France by an Independent Authority: Review and prospects»

Olivier Bonneau, University Professor, Poitiers University, Scientific Advisor and Coordinator of Sciences and Technologies, Higher Council for Evaluation of Research and Higher Education, Paris, France

«Assessment of the Moroccan experience on research evaluation: case study of the National Emergency Programme. »

Abdelhafid Debbarh, Advisor to the President, International University of Rabat, Morocco

«Research Evaluation in Science Policy»

Mina Kleiche-Dray, Researcher, Ceped (Research for Development Institute – Descartes Paris V University), France

«Scientific Collaboration and Collaborative Research in Africa: Lessons Learned from the EU STI Model for Sustainable Development»

Allam Ahmed, University Professor, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

«Lessons from the interim evaluation of the European framework programme for research and innovation – Horizon 2020»

Nelly Bruno, Policy Analyst, Directorate General for Research and Innovation, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium

«Collaboration in Research and its Effects on Scientific Impact»

Vincent Larivière, University Professor, University of Montreal, Canada

“How to Support Good Quality Doctoral Education: A relevance of the evaluation process”

Melita Kovacevic, University Professor, European Universities Association, Zagreb, Croatia

«Quality Indicators for the evaluation of doctoral theses»

Antonio Fernández-Cano, Professor-Chairman of the department of Research and Diagnosis Methods in Education, University of Granada, Spain

Elvira Curiel-Marin, University Professor, University of Granada, Spain

«Doctoral programmes: A method for efficiency evaluation»

Hamid Bouabid, University Professor and Head of Department of Research Evaluation, National Authority of Evaluation, HCETSR, Rabat, Morocco

«Doctoral schools in Tunisia : mitigated results»

Hatem M’henni, University Professor, Higher School of Business of Tunis, Tunisia

«Evaluation for doctoral program quality improvement»

Fakhita Regragui, University Professor, University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco