Presentation of the Vienna Research Groups’ evaluation
WWTF Schlickgasse 3, Wien, ÖsterreichExperiences from the self-evaluation exercise presented to the fteval community. The goal of the Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators (VRG) is to bring young excellent researchers from abroad to Vienna to start their first "genuine" group here. The VRG leaders receive substantial funding from WWTF (up to 1.6 mio € per group) for 6-8 years as well as a clear-cut career plan with a long-term perspective from the Vienna host institutions. The application is in tandem, i.e. the VRG leader applies together with the Vienna research institution. The topics of the progamme change every year. The Vienna Research Groups for [...]
What’s in the AMDC for RTI evaluation?
As the representative of Statistics Austria Tobias Göllner presented the AMDC to the fteval Community on Wednesday, September 7 at 3pm at OeFSE. Afterwards, the interfaces to evaluation were discussed. Presentation slides (in German) This event was co-organised by ACR and fteval.
Presentation of the Research on Research Institute to the evaluation community
onlineThe Research on Research Institute (RoRI) uses a rich blend of old and new disciplinary and methodological approaches to test, evaluate and experiment with different aspects of research systems, cultures and decision-making It brings together people and organisations that care about research, gathering information and developing tools to inform and improve how research is funded, practised, communicated and evaluated. In this on-line presentation the work and key findings of the Research on Research Institute (RoRI) were presented by Sarah de Rijcke, Director of CWTS at Leiden University and Co- chair of RoRI. Presentation language is English. Präsentation slides for download [PDF] [...]
Digitalisation of Evaluations and Evaluation of Digitalisation
onlineA workshop co-organised by the COST-Action PROFEEDBACK and the European Evaluation Society’s Thematic Working Groups 7 on EU policies and 6 on Evaluation Methods and Designs. […]
Annual Conference of the Ukrainian Evaluation Association
onlineThe annual conference of the Ukrainian Evaluation Association ‘Evaluations in challenging time: from humanitarian aid to the state policy’ will be held in online format on 23-24 May 2023. This year's annual conference of the Ukrainian Evaluation Association will focus on two dimensions of M&E policy – evaluation of state policy and humanitarian evaluations. UEA would like to bring the attention of Ukrainian policymakers to the importance of embedding evaluations into the policy cycle as well as to share experience in conducting real-time humanitarian evaluations with the international evaluation community. Registration is available via link https://forms.gle/gx5Zej691tAwtxZX7 For more information, please follow https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-ukrainian-evaluation-association [...]
Re-valuing European Research Infrastructures – Knowledge, Innovation, and the Public Good
Sky Lounge Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Wien, Wien, ÖsterreichInternational Workshop "Re-valuing European Research Infrastructures – Knowledge, Innovation, and the Public Good" University of Vienna, May 25-26, 2023. All info: https://sts.univie.ac.at/einzelansicht-news-und-events/news/re-valuing-european-research-infrastructures/
26th Event of the Vienna Evaluation Network | Transformational Imperative
onlineThis Event will be held in English. Evaluation and the Transformational Imperative – This moment for transformation is a response to our dire global emergency to go beyond incremental change for radical innovation and global systems change at multiple levels in society if it is to survive. How can evaluation, a profession in the business of assessment and advising, meet the moment and inform and participate in the transformation? This webinar will explore the potential role evaluation can play in transforming society. It will examine the concept of transformation, and both barriers and enabling practices for evaluation to meet the transformational [...]
Eu-SPRI Annual Conference 14 – 16 June 2023
The Eu-SPRI summer conference is the leading, annual European event on science, technology and innovation (STI) policy, providing a forum for scholars and policymakers in the areas of science, technology and innovation policy to exchange ideas, present emerging research and build valuable networks. The 2023 Conference theme is 'Research with Impact. https://www.euspri2023.com/
Annual Impact of Science Conference 2023
19 – 21 June 2023, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Research policy: How to share the funding pie?
In this joint event by Thomas König (IHS), Jürgen Janger (WIFO) and Gerald Schweiger (Graz University of Technology), an exchange on research funding was organised: VENUE: IHS, Josefstädter Str. 39, 1080 Vienna (Salon) TIME: 18.9., 13-17 Competition has become much more important in research funding in recent decades - this is true not only in quantitative terms (in many countries, for example, funds for project-based research funding have increased both proportionally and in absolute terms), but also in terms of control and selection (e.g. the acquisition of third-party funding is often an (implicit) prerequisite for a scientific career, the number of [...]
2023 annual conference of the AQ Austria: DIVERSITY EQUALITY INCLUSION
TechGateVienna Donau-City-Straße 1, Wien, Wien, ÖsterreichQuality assurance and development in the context of diversity, equality and inclusion.
2nd GRANteD Stakeholder Conference
Impact Hub Vienna Lindengasse 56, Wien, Wien, ÖsterreichGRANteD has investigated the existence and emergence of gender bias in the decision-making processes of research funding and scientific careers over the past few years. In doing so, the project consortium has learned a great deal about the various evaluation and decision-making processes in research funding and the impact of grants on scientific career trajectories, information that is highly applicable to other contexts of the research system like research assessment processes or inclusive research cultures. GRANteD explored these topics through a variety of case studies, looked at this from the perspective of different methods and data, and were able to generate [...]