European Forum on Research and Development Impact Assessment

Date: 24.2.2009 — 25.2.2009
Venue: Prague - Czech Republic
Category: Conferences and Seminars
Theme: Competitiveness

EU Forum On Research and Development Impact Assessment

Conference organised in the framework of the Czech EU Presidency
24 – 25 February 2009
Prague Congress Centre
www.eufordia2009.eu

Raison d’être:

EUFORDIA will provide a discussion platform for the EU Member States for assessment of the national and European impact of their participation in the Framework Programmes with particular focus on the respective changes in competitiveness
Participants: 300, representatives of R&D departments of ministries, experts of national and international R&D foundations and programmes, analysts of R&D policies, national representatives in the CREST, members of the Programme Committees of the FP, National contact points for the FP, any other individual interested in evidence-based R&D policy making

Eufordia topics:

1. The role of R&D evaluation in building the ERA and strengthening competitiveness

State of Art of the Impact Assessment of R&D programmes: EU and EU-abroad experience with Impact Assessment of public financing of R&D&I
DG Research Expert Group Report on the FP6 ex-post evaluation

2. FP6 evaluation and impact assessment at EU and national level

DG INFSO ex-post evaluation of the FP6 IST programme
National studies: Spain (national FP6 impact assessment study), Sweden (enhancing Swedish competitiveness due to participation in the FP6), Czech Republic (bibliometric study on scientific communications resulting from Czech participation in FP6 projects)
Poster section for studies on national participation in the FPs, ex-ante, ex-post evaluation of national participation in the FPs and national FP impact studies

3. Principles and techniques for FP ex-post evaluation and impact assessment – Theory and practice of R&D programmes evaluation, From evaluation to metaevaluation, Making FP evaluation more efficient, Framework Programme indicators for analysing country participation and impact assessment

4. EUFORDIA conclusions and recommendations

Invited speakers:

Erik Arnold, Technopolis
Frank Cunningham, DG INFSO, European Commission
Peter Fisch, DG Research, European Commission
Heung Deug Hong, Kangwon National University, Republic of Korea
Stefan Kuhlmann, University of Twente, NL
Julia Lane, National Science Foundation, USA
Benedetto Lepori, University of Lugano, CH, and Observatoire des Sciences et Techniques, FR
Pieter Van Nes, DG Joint Research Centre, European Commission
Lennart Norgren, Vinnova, SE
Montserrat Torné, Ministry of Science and Innovation, ES
Jiří Vaněček , Technology Centre AS CR, CZ
Martin Weber, European Court of Auditors