The fteval community launched an internal working group for capturing the state of the art of impact assessment of R&I policy and transfer it to the Austrian context. Three sub-groups analyse specific aspects of the impact on social innovations, on science-society relations and on "green economy". These groups are steered by Joanneum Research, the OIS [...]

From 18-19 November 2021 the REvaluation Conference - Europe's largest RTI Policy Evaluation Conference will take place in Vienna. 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 [...]

We produced a 4-minutes introduction to the fteval Platform to explain how our acitivities contribute to raise and develop quality standards of research and technology policy evaluation to strategically improve Austrian reseach and technology policy instruments:   We would like to thank all contributors and the presenters: Dr. Rupert Pichler, Republic of Austria - Federal [...]

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 [...]