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Open Evaluation 2016, the largest conference in Europe dedicated to the evaluation of policies in the field of research, technology and innovation (RTI) policy, took place in Vienna on 24-25 November 2016. The main conference organisers were the Austrian Platform for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation, the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research and IFRIS - Institut Francilien Recherche Innovation Société, Paris. For this conference, more than 250 academics, evaluators, research managers, authorities and RTI policy makers form all five continents gathered to debate challenging developments in RTI policy and their effects on evaluation theory and practice. The conference addressed new actor settings, approaches and themes in RTI [...]

Sijbolt Noorda presents the governance of Dutch universities On June 1, 2017, Sijbolt Noorda (President of the Magna Charta Observatory, Bologna, Former President of the University of Amsterdam and the Dutch Research Universities Association) spoke about the Dutch Higher Education System. He presented the governance of the universities and how autonomy has shaped them since the 1980s. In the following panel you discussed what you can learn from an Austrian perspective from the Dutch system. The Dutch higher education system enjoys a high international reputation. All universities are highly ranked. In contrast to the Anglo-American system, where there are [...]

After the last  chair was taken in the audience hall of BMWFW, the event started - after an introduction by the head of the ministry Barbara Weitgruber - with a keynote of the chairman of the evaluation commission Dieter Imboden. He reported on the organization, focus of the evaluation and the main "construction sites" of the German Initiative of Excellence. Particular importance was put on the unplanned or unwanted effects of this massive funding program. Then, discussant Sybille Reichert - active in the Austrian Science Council and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg - brought the internal perspective of a German university's principal [...]

In the 20th year of the platform’ s existence, we felt that we should reach out to the community not just via our website and e-mail but also via social media. By establishing the fteval Twitter we respond to a wish often expressed by member organisations in the course of the interviews Katharina Warta and Stefan Philipp conducted for investigating the impact of fteval on the Austrian RTI policy evaluation system (see fteval Journal issue No. 41). We will tweet and retweet news about events, publications and other important developments from the world of research, technology and innovation policy and evaluation [...]

In 2016, the Austrian Platform for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation will celebrate its 20st  birthday. We took that as an occasion to scrutinise the Platforms usefulness for its members and the impact it has created. This internal assessment consits, firstly, of a compilation of services provided by the Platform since its beginnings in 1996. Secondly, Katharina Warta and Stefan Philipp conducted group interviews with most of the member organisations in October and November 2015, to collect their views on fteval's activities, and past and present challenges for RTI-evaluation. The study comes up with key findings along five dimensions: (i) fteval [...]