About the Forum
Why Research Systems Matter
Research is shaped not only by ideas and methods, but also by institutions, infrastructures, incentives, assessment practices, technologies, publishing systems, policies and public expectations. The European Forum on Research Systems creates a shared European space to examine how these elements interact and how they are changing.
A Forum Across Roles and Sectors
The Forum connects researchers and doctoral candidates with universities, research managers, libraries, funders, scholarly infrastructures, publishers, research-support communities and policy actors. Its system-level perspective is designed to connect conversations that are often separated by discipline or professional field.
Annual and Itinerant
Each annual edition develops a focused research-system question with its own Academic Host, scientific programme and partnerships while remaining part of one permanent Forum and public archive.
Research systems connect decisions that are often discussed separately.
The Forum creates one shared space for questions of research practice, assessment, integrity, scholarly communication, infrastructures, institutional governance, funding and public policy. Its purpose is to examine how changes in one part of the research system affect the others.
One permanent Forum. A distinct question each year.
Permanent institutional continuity
The European Forum on Research Systems provides the long-term institutional and digital framework that connects successive editions.
Annual scientific focus
Each edition develops a focused research-system question with its own programme, contributors, public record and institutional context.
Public archive
Calls, programmes, speakers and outputs can remain part of one cumulative Forum archive rather than disappearing after an individual event.
Different roles, one research environment.
Researchers, faculty, doctoral and early-career researchers across disciplines.
Universities, research offices, managers, libraries and scholarly-communication teams.
Research infrastructures, funders, assessment communities and publishing ecosystems.
Policy actors and organisations concerned with how research is governed, trusted and used.