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AUSTRIAN EU COUNCIL PRESIDENCY CONFERENCE ON IMPACT OF R&I POLICY AT THE CROSSROADS OF POLICY DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION Austrian EU Council Presidency Conference on Impact of R&I Policy at the Crossroads of Policy Design, Implementation and Evaluation   Research, Technology and Innovation policy is more than ever charged with demonstrating societal impact. This raises new issues at all levels of policy design, implementation and evaluation. This conference is therefore devoted to the challenge of generating and understanding societal impact through RTI policy. It discusses new policy rationales and new demands for RTI policy in service of society, reflects challenges in [...]

Die fteval, die Österreichische Plattform für Forschungs- und Technologiepolitikevaluierung, organisiert ein ganztägiges Training zum Thema „Qualität von Ausschreibungen (‚Terms of Reference – ToR‘) im Bereich der Evaluierung von Forschungs- Technologie- und Innovationspolitiken“. Zielgruppe Das Training richtet sich an Personen, die mit der Beauftragung von Evaluierungen im Bereich von Forschungs- Technologie- und Innovationspolitiken betraut sind. Insbesondere angesprochen sind Leiter/innen und Mitarbeiter/innen von Evaluierungsabteilungen in Agenturen, Ministerien und anderen Verwaltungsbehörden oder Organisationen der öffentlichen Hand Programmverantwortliche, die Evaluierungen in ihrem Zuständigkeitsbereich als Auftraggeber/innen betreuen oder betreuen werden Mitarbeiter/innen der genannten Stellen, die mit der Beauftragung von Evaluierungen betraut sind oder betraut sein werden [...]

Based on a recent large-scale OECD study of tax-based research funding and the evaluation of the Austrian “Forschungsprämie”, fteval organises an international event on the effects of tax-based research funding In recent years, tax-based research funding has become increasingly important internationally and nationally. At the same time, the effects on R&D investment of firms and innovation output are not clarified, as studies come to partly contrary results. Based on a recent large-scale OECD study of tax-based research funding and the evaluation of the Austrian “Forschungsprämie”, fteval organises an international event on the effects of tax-based research funding: How do international models [...]

The Austrian platform for research and technology policy evaluation (fteval) will publish the next issue of the „fteval Journal for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation” in fall 2017. Hereby we are launching the call for papers with focus on the evaluation of research in higher education systems. Among other topics in this field, we welcome contributions discussing, assessing or evaluating the consequences of the shift from ‘government to governance’ in the Higher Education and Academic Sector, the implications of governance reforms for academic research, changes in the academic knowledge production, evaluations of the institutional environment, ‘third mission’ activities and structures (e.g. [...]

Josef Säckl stellt den Datenfluss der FFG vor Secondary data in general and data from monitoring databases are becoming increasingly important for RTI policy evaluations. At the same time, monitoring data are getting better and increasingly time series are available. At this event, fteval together with the FFG and the FWF provided a comprehensive insight into the data flow, structure and accessibility of the monitoring data of the two major Austrian R & D funding agencies. Through transparent and open presentations and discussions, a contribution  to actively counteract potential competitive disadvantages in the provision of services and a closure [...]

In this issue of fteval's Journal for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation you find the following articels: CONTENT: Prozessmerkmale und institutionelle Rahmenbedingungen einer nützlichen Evaluationspraxis im österreichischen FTI-Bereich, Günther Landsteiner und Johannes Gadner Die Vermessenheit der Vermessung: Überlegungen zur universitären Governance in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften, Günther R. Burkert, David F. J. Campbell und Thorsten D. Barth Everyone’s happy? The case for expectation management in commissioned evaluation projects, Anke Reinhardt and Anton Geyer Launching careers and breaking new ground: Results from the evaluation of the Austrian Science Fund’s FWF start & Wittgenstein programmes, Sarah Seus, Susanne Bührer-Topcu, Niclas Meyer, Eva Heckl, [...]

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 [...]