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 research stakeholders, including research performing- and research funding organisations, as well as publishers, to discuss how we could set up, and collaborate on, institutional/departmental pilots of  (some of) the Recommendations. The Ideas Lab will involve brainstorming on such questions as:

• 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 (still evolving) is envisioned as follows:

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