2025 Annual Meeting

The 13th Annual GRC Meeting was held from 18–22 May 2025 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The event was co-hosted by the Research, Development, and Innovation Authority (RDIA) and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) of Saudi Arabia, together with The Scientific and Technological Research Institution of Turkey (TÜBİTAK).

The topics for discussion were:

• Research Management in the Era of AI
• Working Together in Co-creation to Address Global Challenges

Statements of Principles were published on both topics.

Meeting reports

Report of the 2025 GRC Annual Meeting in Riyadh

Reports on each side event:

• Side Event 1: Responsible and Effective Global Research and Innovation Index
• Side Event 2: Managing AI for Research Excellence: Embedding Ethics, Equity and Inclusion
• Side Event 3: Sustainable Research through multilateral collaboration and trans-disciplinary research in the era of AI
• Side Event 4: Regional Perspectives on Open Science and Open Access Initiatives
• Side Event 5: Greater Impact: Experiences, Best Practices, Opportunities, Challenges of using AI in Research Funding
• Side Event 6: AI-Powered Collaboration Databases for Enhanced Research Utilization
• Side Event 7: Opportunities for Safeguarding and Intensifying Multilateral Research Collaboration in Changing Geopolitical environments
• Side Event 8: Unlocking Insights: the Future of Responsible Research Assessment
• Side Event 9: Enhancing Global Collaboration through AI in Research Impact Evaluation