The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) invites tenders for the external evaluation of the funding programme  "Special Research Programmes" (Spezialforschungsbereiche, SFB): https://www.fwf.ac.at/fileadmin/files/Dokumente/Downloads/2018-07-18_TORs_SFB-Evaluation.pdf The tender has been drawn up in accordance with the FWF Rules on Quality and Transparency Evaluations, Studies and Research Policy-related Services and with the Evaluation Standards developed by the Austrian Platform for Research and Technology Policy [...]

Impact of R&I Policy at the Crossroads of Policy Design, Implementation, Evaluation The registration process for the R&I Impact Conference will be open as of 22 June 2018! Please register here. PLEASE TAKE NOTE: Due to the overall invitation policy of the Council Presidency you will receive an official accreditation eMail from ESIAT, the [...]

Call for abstracts and posters - Austrian EU Council Presidency Event on 'Impact of R&I Policy' The largest conference in Europe dedicated to R&I policy evaluation organised under the Austrian EU Council Presidency on 5-6 November invites submissions of extended abstracts and posters in four focal thematic areas:   1) The nature of impact-oriented R&I [...]

Cabels connected to PC Only in GERMAN available! Die fteval begrüßt das vom BMBWF eingereichte Datenschutz-Anpassungsgesetz 2018, damit es zu keiner weiteren Verschlechterung für Wissenschaft und Forschung im internationalen Wettbewerb komm um die Durchführungsbedingungen für forschungs- und technologiepolitische Evaluierungen zu erleichtern um eine weitere Bürokratisierungsexplosion zu beschränken um im Sinne von Open Science [...]

The MLE's Thematic Report "Combining Mixed Approaches to Evaluation" addresses the topic of applying mixed method approaches to the evaluation of public schemes to support R&D and innovation in firms, specifically business R&D grants and associated innovation schemes. It sets out the broad context for the use of mixed-method approaches in the evaluation of innovation [...]