Imaging facility managers are expected by their universities, research organizations, and funders to demonstrate their value with comprehensive and measurable indicators. It is essential to demonstrate the impact on science but the overall impact on society needs to be assessed and demonstrated as well. This international working group (currently comprising members from Australia, Canada, France, Korea, Portugal, Mexico, Finland the US and EMBL) published the “International Recommendation for Measuring Imaging Core Facility Impact”, a comprehensive framework of highly relevant Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and Socio-Economic Indicators (SEI). The framework includes an indication of how easy or difficult it might be to gather different types of information to measure the related metrics from an imaging core facility perspective. This common set of guidelines for the community will act as a resource and a tool to demonstrate value and importance of imaging facilities for high quality reproducible research to colleagues, departments, faculties, institutions and funding bodies. One of our next objectives is to determine how Global BioImaging can align with and raise awareness about the 17 international Sustainable Development Goals (https://sdgs.un.org/goals). The work is already under way and will benefit from the expertise of different international members that have in depth experience in developing comprehensive frameworks and solutions for the evaluation of SDGs.
To JOIN the regular meetings on SOCIETAL IMPACT OF IMAGING INFRASTRUCTURES, please contact the Chair: Laurence Lejeune ([email protected])