CARA is pleased to open this Call for Sessions for the 2025 virtual Regional Conference
Sessions/Conversation Streams/Workshops will occur on Thursday November 20th and Friday November 21st.The sessions run for 45 minutes. Please indicate if your session will require an additional time slot.
Submissions will be reviewed and rated by the Conference Planning Committee using the selection criterion noted below. Submissions can be from one or more presenters so feel free to reach out to your peers if you wish to collaborate and co-present an idea!
**When submitting your idea for a Session, please respond to the question in the online form “What are the planned opportunities for member engagement or interaction with the presenter(s) and/or with each other? (e.g., Q&A session, or in the case of Workshops break-out groups, roundtable discussions, etc.)”
Selection Criteria: Sessions and Workshops will be reviewed and rated confidentially by committee members on the following:
1) In broad terms, under which element(s) of CARA’s Strategic Planning element(s) does the proposal fall? professional development, professional excellence, communities of practice
The next criteria will be rated on a score of 1 to 5 where 1 is weaker and 5 is very strong (with one difference between Workshop ideas and Session ideas for criteria 4)
2) How well organized and defined is the submitted idea (recognizing that the idea may be further refined)?
3) How relevant, current, or of interest will the idea be to the research administration community more broadly or to a subset of research administrators (e.g., those who work in finance or proposal development)?
4) Is there opportunity for attendee engagement?
- If you have submitted a Workshop idea, this question will be scored 1 to 5
- If you have submitted a Session idea, the committee will note ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ with no score assigned.
Some identified Hot Topics for sessions include:
Please be aware that CARA is a volunteer organization. No reimbursements or stipends will be offered to presenters.
Here are the steps to submit an abstract:
1. Click on the “Submit Abstract” button below. This will take you to a “VFairs “Abstract Submission page
2. Create a login using your email address and password
3. Complete the required details including session title, keywords, presenter and any co-presenters – if there are any other details you would like to include – do so in the notes area
4. Press submit
5. All sessions are 45 minutes – if you wish to present a 90-minute session please complete 2 abstracts with the same title and label as part 1 and part 2
6. If you have any questions regarding the process, please contact barbara@strategicevents.ca
7. Once you have submitted your abstracts, the Conference Planning Committee will review them
8. If they have any questions, they will reach out to you for clarification
9. Final decisions will be made no later than September 1st, 2025