School of Evaluators in LATMÉTRICAS 2025
From the Latin American Forum on Scientific Evaluation (FOLEC-CLACSO)We invite you to participate in Intensive seminar on situated and responsible scientific evaluation within the framework of open science as a public and common good, which will take place from 3 to 7 November 2025 in Mexico City, within the framework of the event LATMÉTRICAS 2025: “Contextual metrics for scientific and technological agendas”Organized by the Institute of Research in Applied Mathematics and Systems (IIMAS) and the Interinstitutional Seminar on Interdisciplinary Studies on Science, Technology and Innovation (SEICTI) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). This new edition of the School of Evaluators It seeks to strengthen the analytical and political capacities of actors in the scientific-academic ecosystem of Latin America and the Caribbean, promoting more open, inclusive and socially relevant evaluation practices.
The training proposal —of a nature free and hybrid— It combines in-person classes, live virtual sessions, and recorded materials, with the participation of leading regional and international figures in the fields of evaluation, open science, and science policy. Over five thematic days, the following key areas will be addressed: Open science and evaluation criteria, Responsible and situated evaluation, Metrics, openness and impacts, Evaluating the evaluation y international experiences, in a participatory format oriented towards critical analysis and the co-construction of transformative proposals.
The seminar is the third initiative of the School promoted by FOLEC-CLACSO, which is consolidating itself as a Latin American training space around the counter-hegemonic scientific evaluation, in dialogue with the principles of the Declaration of Principles "A new academic and scientific evaluation for a science with social relevance in Latin America and the Caribbean"(2022) on a new academic and scientific evaluation with social relevance. Registration is open and the activity will take place at the IIMAS Auditorium (UNAM)For more information, you can consult the full presentation at LATMETRICAS 2025.
