Title: European Commission DG Information Society Directorate G: eEurope and Information Society Technology
1WREN Workshop Performance Assessment of Public
Research, Technology and Development (RTD)
Programmes
- Frans de BruïneDirector
- Thursday 17 June 2004
2RD in the EUs political agenda
There is a strong need for a solid European RD
base
- Financial perspectives (2006-2013)
- Double the budget for RD
- Implementation plan of 6 main priorities
- Adapt the EU Framework Programme for RTD
- EU Parliament 7 of the EU budget to be invested
in the EU RD (European Parliament, Linkohrs
Report on Investing in Research an action for
Europe)
Increased need for- better managed RD
programmes- transparency, accountability and
cost-effectiveness
Advanced Programme Performance Evaluation and
Assessment Systems
3The Evaluation of the EU RD programmes
The Evaluation is included in the management of
the EU RD programmes in order to
- meet the formal EU Programme expenditure
requirements and - ensure that the EU funded RD is useful and leads
to sustainable economic and societal impacts
Need to focus our resources to identify the most
suitable tools and best practice
Converging requirements
Difficulties in evaluating public interventions
in RD
- Collaborations among people and organisations
developing and exploiting new , advanced
methodologies, models, practices and tools
Complex needs and programmes designs New
economic models and behaviours Rapidly changing
environments
- Exchange of evaluation best practice
- Share evaluation knowledge
4The Workshops objectives
- The importance of a proper linking between the
technical, socio-economic, and investment
objectives in order to appropriately account for
the effects of research on productivity,
competitiveness, and growth - The value creation process of world-wide research
and technology development networking,
collaboration platforms and partnerships which
are developed to promote the exchange of new
ideas, techniques and methodologies - The harmonisation and standardization of
performance and evaluation systems and data among
nations