Programme

Programme jbilou 2018-06-21T12:30:55+00:00

Wednesday, December 6th 2017

Registration	8.30 – 9.30
Opening Session Omar Azziman, President, Higher Council for Education, Training and Scientific Research (HCETSR) «Welcome and Opening Adress» Rahma Bourqia, Director, National Authority of Evaluation (HCETSR) «Introductory Address to the Symposium»	9.30 – 10.30
10.30-10.45 : Coffee Break
Session 1 : Issues and relevance of Research Evaluation Chairperson : Albert Sasson, Member of the HCETSR Keynote speakers : Yves Gingras, University Professor, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada «Research Evaluation Transformation» Mohammed Sghir Janjar, Deputy Director, King Abdul Aziz Foundation for Islamic Studies and Human Sciences, Casablanca, Morocco “Tools and Mechanisms for the Evaluation of Scientific Outputs in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences: Issues and limits”	10.45 – 12.30
Open discussion	11.45
12.30-14.15 Lunch Break
Session 2 : Benchmarking and research evaluation measurement Chairperson : Abdellatif Miraoui, Member of the HCETSR Jan Sadlak, President, IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence, Paris, France «Evaluation needs and university rankings: Uneasy mutual dependence» Mohamed Najim, Professor Emeritus, National Polytechnical Institute & University of Bordeaux, France «From Benchmarking to Citations Indicators: Limits of Using Automated Metrics in research evaluation» Gunnar Sivertsen, Research Professor and Head of Bibliometric Research, Nordic Institute of Studies in innovation, Research and Education, oslo, Norway «European experiences with national research evaluation systems»	14.00 – 15.50
Open Discussion	15.20
15.50-16.05 Coffee Break
Session 3 : Social impact in research evaluation Chairperson: Mohammed Noureddine Affaya, Member of the HCETSR Sari Hanafi, Professor, American University of Beirut, Lebanon «Research on the Arab World and the lack of social impact» Marta Soler-Gallart, University Professor, University of Barcelona, Spain «Assessing social impact. challenges and possibilities» Seteny Shami, Managing Director, Arab Council for the Social Sciences, Beirut, Lebanon «Evaluating Social Science and Humanities Research Between Quality and Metrics» Mohammed Bamyeh, University Professor, University of Pittsburg, USA How to evaluate the difference between raw science and refined science?	16.05 – 17.55
Open discussion	17.25
Closing first day’s work	18.00

Thursday, December, 7th 2017

Session 4 : Methods of research evaluation in national and international exercises Chairperson: Nadia Amal Bernoussi, Member of the HCETSR Carlos Aragão de Carvalho, University Professor, Directorate General for Nuclear and Technological Development of the Brazilian Navy, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil «Graduate schools and research networks in Brazil» 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 «A decade of Research Evaluation in France by an Independent Authority: Review and prospects» Abdelhafid Debbarh, Advisor to the President, International University of Rabat, Morocco «Assessment of the Moroccan experience on research evaluation: case study of the National Emergency Programme. » Mina Kleiche-Dray, Researcher, Ceped (Research for Development Institute – Descartes Paris V University), France «Research Evaluation in Science Policy»	9.00 – 11.10
Open Discussion	10.40
11.10 – 11.30 Pause-café
Session 5 : Scientific collaboration and its evaluation Chairperson : Azzedine Midaoui, Member of the HCETSR Allam Ahmed, University Professor, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom «Scientific Collaboration and Collaborative Research in Africa: Lessons Learned from the EU STI Model for Sustainable Development» Nelly Bruno, Policy Analyst, Directorate General for Research and Innovation, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium «Lessons from the interim evaluation of the European framework programme for research and innovation – Horizon 2020» Vincent Larivière, University Professor, University of Montreal, Canada «Collaboration in Research and its Effects on Scientific Impact»	11.30 – 13.00
Open Discussion	12.30
13.00 – 14.15 Lunch Break
Session 6 : Evaluation mechanisms for doctoral programmes Chairperson: Rabéa Naciri, Member of the HCETSR Melita Kovacevic, University Professor, European Universities Association, Zagreb, Croatia “How to Support Good Quality Doctoral Education: A relevance of the evaluation process” 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 «Quality Indicators for the evaluation of doctoral theses» Hamid Bouabid, University Professor and Head of Department of Research Evaluation, National Authority of Evaluation, HCETSR, Rabat, Morocco «Doctoral programmes: A method for efficiency evaluation» Hatem M’henni, University Professor, Higher School of Business of Tunis, Tunisia «Doctoral schools in Tunisia : mitigated results» Fakhita Regragui, University Professor, University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco «Evaluation for doctoral program quality improvement»	14.15 – 16.25
Open Discussion	15.55
16.25-16.55 : Coffee Break
General Conclusions – Albert Sasson – Member of the HCETSR	17.00 – 17.30
Symposium closing	17.30