Turning Recommendations into Reality: Implementing Mechanisms for Recognizing and Rewarding Peer Review

On 15 January 2026, the CoARA Working Group on Recognizing and Rewarding Peer Review are hosting a hybrid workshop in Berlin to exchange ideas on how to implement the Recommendations published in July 2025 on mechanisms to systemically acknowledge, and appropriately reward, peer review as a critical scholarly contribution.

The aim of this hybrid “Ideas Lab” is to bring together key stakeholders (research performing organisations, funders, publishers, and the academic community) to collaborate on setting up pilots of  the Recommendations. The Ideas Lab aims to develop implementable, scaleable proposals on:

• Which recommendations could your institution pilot and what outcomes will you be looking at?
• Who could your institution collaborate with on a pilot?
• How do we share lessons from such pilots?

The hands-on hybrid programme is as follows:

As in-person capacity is limited to 50 pax, we encourage you to register early to save your spot!