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Platform R&D Evaluation Plattform Forschungs- und Technologieevaluierung GesbR. Who is in the Platform?. Those promoting R&D FFF, FWF, TIG Policy Maker BMWA, bmvit, bmbwk Those performing evaluations ARC Seibersdorf, Technopolis Austria, IfgH, Joanneum Research, WIFO.
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Platform R&D EvaluationPlattform Forschungs- und Technologieevaluierung GesbR
Who is in the Platform? • Those promoting R&D • FFF, FWF, TIG • Policy Maker • BMWA, bmvit, bmbwk • Those performing evaluations • ARC Seibersdorf, Technopolis Austria, IfgH, Joanneum Research, WIFO
How is the Platform organized? • General partnership • Formalized way of deciding & acting • Advantages: CI, Signalling, binding character, neutrality; it’s easier to attach importance to evaluation • Disadvantages:Budget Constraints
Platform Objectives • The Platform‘s mission is to: • Improve evaluation practices and methods • Increase evaluation use • Increase evaluation quality • Diffuse evaluation knowledge • in the field of R&D policies • We are NO evaluators!
What are we doing? • Platform Meetings • 3-4 times a year • Close connection to the newsletter (topic, authors) • International Experts: • Phil Shapira, T. Lukkonen, Stefan Kuhlman, A. van Raan, Erik Arnold, B. de Boissezon, …. • Discussion • Austrian & international Studies
What are we doing? PlattformNewsletter Nr. 16 The Role of „Councils“ in Research and Technology Policy
What are we doing? Not formally adopted • Developing Platform Standards We try to take into account the Austrian circumstances We are talking about R&D homogeneity Policy cicle / Methodology / Ethics
What do we want to do? • Evaluation Contact Point Austria • Education (which format?)
Ideas 2003: Conference • Bringing together European & American Evaluation Experts, Policy Makers and Program Managers (Austria, Germany, EC) Government funded R&D Activities, Evaluation Methods & Lessons Learned 15. + 16. May 2003, Vienna