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The UNESCO Evaluation Office is inviting expressions of interest (EoIs) from qualified individuals to undertake an evaluation of the UNESCO Human Resources Management Strategy 2017-2022. The main objective of this evaluation is to assess the implementation of the 2017-2022 HRM Strategy and to issue findings relevant to the development of the new draft HRM Strategy 2023-2027. Please find the call for EoIs at this address:http://www.uneval.org/vacancies/detail/1203. The deadline for submitting EoIs is on Tuesday 7th June 2022. For further information on this assignment, please contact Ms. Syreen Forest: s.forest@unesco.org

European Conference on RTI Evaluation Policy on 5-6 May 2022 Previously planned to take place November 2021, the REvaluation Conference - Europe's largest RTI Policy Evaluation Conference will take place in Vienna 5-6 May 2022. 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 and registration, please visit www.revaluation2021.eu ! Many thanks to all our supporters and sonsors who make the REvaluation Conference possible!   (Registrations via the in-built function on the bottom of this [...]

The virtual spring meeting ("Frühjahrstreffen") of the DeGEval RTI working group on the topic of "New demands on the monitoring of RTI programmes" will take place online on 31 May from 13:00. After an introduction to the topic, we would like to examine the various facets of monitoring together with you on the basis of practical examples. The central question is the demands placed on the monitoring of RTI programmes and the extent to which it has been possible to meet these demands in practical implementation. We would like to take a closer look at the resulting perspectives. The speakers of [...]

FFG and fteval Platform invite to an on-line Workshop to reflect aspects of evaluating FFG's "Impact Innovation" programme. Since 2017, the FFG has been funding projects for the development of innovative solutions within the framework of Impact Innovation. Based on an unsolved but defined problem, solution ideas are to be developed together with users, customers or other relevant stakeholders. Impact innovation is intended to support innovations that do not necessarily arise from R&D projects. Among other things, social innovation, business model innovation, process innovations (etc.) are to be promoted through processes such as open innovation, design thinking (etc.), which have so [...]

This year, the Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development and the Austrian Platform for Research and Technology Policy (fteval) will present the Evaluation Talent Award for the first time. The aim is to honour the good work done by young evaluators to further improve research policy and to make the talents visible in the international expert community. The expert jury, consisting of experienced actors in the field of research policy and its evaluation, was enthusiastic at the award meeting: "We are pleased about the competent nominations, which cover many different aspects of evaluation. There is a strong generation growing up here [...]