The MiRoR consortium organised a sucessful seminar dedicated to Innovative initiatives to transform research and meet the challenges of the 21st century. This seminar took place at the School of Medicine of the University of Split (Croatia) on October 2, 2018.

Guest speakers in this event are top leader contributors in the field of meta research. They delivered the following presentations:

• Vicky Hellon, Editorial Community Manager, F1000Research, UK
  The challenges faced in today’s publication process and the possible solutions
• Ivan Oransky, Co-founder, Retraction Watch, USA
  Retraction of publication: past, present and future
• Richard Stephens, Patient Advocate and Editor of “Research involvement and engagement”, UK
  Avoiding Waste In Research – A Patient Perspective
• Matthew Westmore, Operations Director, NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre, UK
  Improving research integrity. The funder’s perspective