The First Workshop of the ESF MO Forum, Berlin, 22-23 October 2007
The first workshop of the ESF Member Organisation Forum on Evaluation of Funding Schemes and Research Programmes, entitled Expectations, Practices and Experiences, took place on 22 and 23 October 2007 . It was hosted by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) at its Berlin Office.
The objectives of the workshop were:
to present the approaches to and share experiences on evaluation of funding schemes and research programmes in participating research organisations
to identify areas in which cooperation could be fruitful
Presentations and Additional Materials
Opening and Welcoming
ESF Member Organisation Fora, Neil Williams, European Science Foundation |
Session 1: Practices of evaluation in selected research funding agencies
Performance Assessment and Programme Evaluation in the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Rudolf Novak, FWF, Austria | |
The Evaluation Activities at the Academy of Finland, Annamaija Lehvo, Academy of Finland, Finland | |
The BBSRC Approaches to the Evaluation of Research, Mari Williams, BBSRC, United Kingdom | |
Evaluation at the Danish National Research Foundation, Laura Hammershøy, Danish National Research Foundation, Denmark | |
Evaluation Activities within the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Anke Reinhardt, DFG, Germany | |
Evaluation at the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research, Kenneth Abrahamsson, FAS, Sweden |
Session 2: Diversity and Common Ground in evaluation practices in research funding agencies
Evaluation of Funding Schemes and Research Programmes, Per Janson, Swedish Research Council, Sweden | |
Evaluation Practices at the National Science Foundation, Jill Schamberger, NSF, USA | |
National University Research Council, Ioan Dumitrache, CNCSIS, Romania | |
Evaluation of scientific research fields/disciplines at the Research Council Norway, Gro E M Helgesen, RCN, Norway |
Session 3: Evaluation approches in research institutions
Evaluation of researchers and research units at the CNRS, Christophe Blondel, CNRS, France | |
INFN Funding schemes and Research Evaluation, Valerio Vercesi, INFN, Italy | |
Judging Research on its Merits - Evaluation at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Jack Spaapen, KNAW, Netherlands | |
Evaluation Processes at the Austrian Academy of Sciences: Experiences and Future perspectives, Claudia Heilmann-Sennhenn, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria | |
Evaluation Procedures at the Max Planck Society, Helene Schruff, Max Planck Society, Germany | |
CNR’s Evaluation of Research Programmes, Giovanni De Simone, CNR, Italy |
Session 4: Potential follow up activities / future collaboration
Experiences with the RTD Evaluation Network, Peter Fisch, European Commission |
