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While citizen science is by definition highly participatory, its evaluation and impact assessment practices often do not live up to this claim. In this special issue we will explore existing approaches to participatory evaluation that involve participants of citizen science activities in reflecting and assessing projects’ or initiatives’ processes and outcomes. This involvement may range from co-designing the evaluation strategy to creating evaluation or monitoring instruments to be used during and after the project, to name but a few.   The special issue aims to collect and discuss a wide range of methods of participatory evaluation, informed by the experiences gathered [...]

In summer 2020 the fteval community launched an internal working group for capturing the state of the art of impact assessment of R&I policy and transfer it to the Austrian context. Three sub-groups analysed specific aspects of the impact on social innovations, on science-society relations and on a so-called "green economy". These groups were steered by Joanneum Research, the OIS Center at Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft and the Austrian Institute for SME Research. The results in web-post format can be viewed here: Impact of RTI policy on social innovations [in English] Impact of RTI policy on the relation between science and society [in English] [...]

From 18-19 November 2021 the REvaluation Conference - Europe's largest RTI Policy Evaluation Conference will take place in Vienna. It is jointly organised by the fteval platform together with Fraunhofer ISI and IFRIS - Institut Francilien Recherche Innovation Société, Paris exploring the role of science and technology policy’s in societal transformation, resilience and anticipation. For detailed information, please visit https://www.revaluation2021.eu/ !

How is committment generated during internal evaluations? This symposium discussed benefits and obstacles in internal evaluations.   Invitation and Programme [PDF, German] Presentation slides [in German] Meike Olbrecht, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Thomas König, Institut für Höhere Studien Patrick Lehner, Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft Discussants' results and discussion [in German] Michael Hofer, Universität Wien Hintergrundfolien und Ergebnisse der Diskussion   The event's language was German. Venue: Online. For further details we kindly ask for a registration. Time: 30.11.2020 14:00

The fteval community launched an internal working group for capturing the state of the art of impact assessment of R&I policy and transfer it to the Austrian context. Three sub-groups analyse specific aspects of the impact on social innovations, on science-society relations and on "green economy". These groups are steered by Joanneum Research, the OIS Center at Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft and the Austrian Institute for SME Research. First results are expected for the end-2020.

From 18-19 November 2021 the REvaluation Conference - Europe's largest RTI Policy Evaluation Conference will take place in Vienna. It is jointly organised by the fteval platform together with Fraunhofer ISI and IFRIS - Institut Francilien Recherche Innovation Société, Paris exploring the role of science and technology policy’s in societal transformation, resilience and anticipation. For detailed information, please visit https://www.revaluation2021.eu/ !

We produced a 4-minutes introduction to the fteval Platform to explain how our acitivities contribute to raise and develop quality standards of research and technology policy evaluation to strategically improve Austrian reseach and technology policy instruments:   We would like to thank all contributors and the presenters: Dr. Rupert Pichler, Republic of Austria - Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology, Department for Research and Technology Funding, Head of Department Mag. Simone Mesner, Republic of Austria - Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Research, Department for Research, Technology, Innovation: Strategy and Knowledge Transfer, Head of Department Dr. [...]

The Vienna Business Agency launches a tender for an accompanying evaluation of the ViennaUP’21 start-up programme. Please find details here: https://gv.vergabeportal.at/Detail/87952. Submission deadline: Monday, 7 September 2020 at 12.00. Contact: Alfried Braumann, Braumann@wirtschaftsagentur.at