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

The fteval Journal for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation positions itself at the interface between research and technology policy practice and academic quality, thereby contributing to the exchange between the various stakeholder groups in the RTI evaluation field. Thematic issues alternate with thematically open ones. Including the previous newsletters from which the journal emerged, 53 issues have [...]

The fteval platform cordially invites to join the closing event of a study conducted by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF): “Re-thinking evaluation – structural support measures for building methodological competence for overcoming new challenges in RTI-evaluations”. The study was funded by the Federal Ministry Republic of Austria for Digital and Economic Affairs with [...]

Call for Tenders for the external evaluation of the "Programme for Arts-based Research" (Programm zur Entwicklung und Erschließung der Künste, PEEK) The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) invites tenders for the external evaluation of its "Programme for Arts-based Research" (Programm zur Entwicklung und Erschließung der Künste, PEEK): Call News Tender Document, Terms of Reference The tender [...]

"Neues wagen" gilt für unsere Kunden – und ebenso für uns, damit stellte die FFG gemeinsam mit der Plattform für Forschungs- und Technologiepolitikevaluierung (FTEval) heute Vormittag das innovative Sandpit-Format anhand der Ergebnisse der Ideen Lab 4.0-Ausschreibungen vor. Diskutiert wurde im Mitgliederrahmen damit wir als Plattform, Agentur, Evaluatoren, Ministerien aus Neuem lernen und unser Angebot laufend [...]

Evaluation standards formulate central claims evaluations that they should follow in practice. So define the "standards for evaluation" of society for evaluation (DeGEval) utility, feasibility, fairness and accuracy as overarching features of good evaluation. The present anthology adopts the 2016 adopted first revision of the DeGEval standards as an occasion claim and reality of evaluation [...]