The OPENRAM Project, carried out under the coordination of our university, has been awarded funding within the scope of the Horizon Europe MSCA-SE Programme.
Within the framework of the 2025 call of the Horizon Europe Programme Marie Skłodowska-Curie Staff Exchanges, 21 projects involving a total of 37 institutions from Türkiye—7 of which are coordinators—have been selected for funding, with a total grant amount of EUR 4.319 million. This significant achievement once again demonstrates Türkiye’s strong position within the European Research Area, and Hacettepe University is among the successful institutions participating as a project coordinator.
Within this context, the OPENRAM – Opening Research Assessment to Multi-Contexts project, which has been selected for funding, will be carried out under the coordination of Hacettepe University and aims to make research assessment systems more inclusive, context-sensitive, and responsible. Moving beyond traditional evaluation approaches based on uniform metrics, the project focuses on developing new assessment approaches that take into account diverse geographical, institutional, and disciplinary contexts.
OPENRAM is being implemented through a strong international consortium comprising 12 institutions across three continents. Through researcher exchanges, shared infrastructures, and collective learning processes, the project aims to generate concrete and sustainable outputs to improve research assessment systems.
This project, which will be carried out under the coordination of Associate Professor Zehra Taşkın, a faculty member at our university, is also of great importance in terms of strengthening our university's leading role in the areas of open science, responsible research assessment, and international collaborations.