The Austrian platform for research and technology policy evaluation (fteval) will publish the next issue of the „fteval Journal for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation” in fall 2017. Hereby we are launching the call for papers with focus on the evaluation of research in higher education systems. Among other topics in this field, we welcome [...]

Josef Säckl stellt den Datenfluss der FFG vor Secondary data in general and data from monitoring databases are becoming increasingly important for RTI policy evaluations. At the same time, monitoring data are getting better and increasingly time series are available. At this event, fteval together with the FFG and the FWF provided a [...]

In this issue of fteval's Journal for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation you find the following articels: CONTENT: Prozessmerkmale und institutionelle Rahmenbedingungen einer nützlichen Evaluationspraxis im österreichischen FTI-Bereich, Günther Landsteiner und Johannes Gadner Die Vermessenheit der Vermessung: Überlegungen zur universitären Governance in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften, Günther R. Burkert, David F. J. Campbell und Thorsten [...]

Open Evaluation 2016, the largest conference in Europe dedicated to the evaluation of policies in the field of research, technology and innovation (RTI) policy, took place in Vienna on 24-25 November 2016. The main conference organisers were the Austrian Platform for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation, the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research and IFRIS - Institut Francilien Recherche Innovation Société, Paris. [...]

Sijbolt Noorda presents the governance of Dutch universities On June 1, 2017, Sijbolt Noorda (President of the Magna Charta Observatory, Bologna, Former President of the University of Amsterdam and the Dutch Research Universities Association) spoke about the Dutch Higher Education System. He presented the governance of the universities and how autonomy has shaped [...]

After the last  chair was taken in the audience hall of BMWFW, the event started - after an introduction by the head of the ministry Barbara Weitgruber - with a keynote of the chairman of the evaluation commission Dieter Imboden. He reported on the organization, focus of the evaluation and the main "construction sites" of [...]