ERiC/TWINS

Evaluating and assessing research in context

The Faculty of Architecture worked in 2008/2009 with the Rathenau Institute to amend the national system of research assessment in order to bring the presentation of societal research performance on a par with the presentation of more established performance indicators.

The objective of ERiC was to develop ways to measure the social impact of research. The project was supported by a wide range of key stakeholders in the field: the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Netherlands Association of Universities of Applied Sciences (HBO-Raad), and Quality Assurance Netherlands Universities (QANU).

The Architecture ERiC-pilot developed among other things the format for the self-evaluation that was used in the 2010 Research Assessment Exercise.

During the period that the ERiC project was ongoing, the 3TU.Federation (3TU) asked the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) to provide input on the proper criteria used in ex-ante and ex-post assessments of research output in both design and engineering.

In late 2010, immediately following the 2010 research assessment for architecture and the built environment, the KNAW's Council for the Technical Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy and Chemistry (TWINS) published its advisory report.

The KNAW TWINS Council concluded that in design and engineering two criteria would do: (i) scientific quality and (ii) societal relevance. According to the council, assessing quality should be a question of fine-tuning, owing to the differences between the disciplines (including their publication cultures), categories of scientific activity (design, research) and assessment situations (external evaluation, appointment, research proposal).

Listed below are the reports and articles that were produced in the framework of the ERIC project and the work of the KNAW TWINS Council.

Evaluating and assessing research in context

The Faculty of Architecture worked in 2008/2009 with the Rathenau Institute to amend the national system of research assessment in order to bring the presentation of societal research performance on a par with the presentation of more established performance indicators.

The objective of ERiC was to develop ways to measure the social impact of research. The project was supported by a wide range of key stakeholders in the field: the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Netherlands Association of Universities of Applied Sciences (HBO-Raad), and Quality Assurance Netherlands Universities (QANU).

The Architecture ERiC-pilot developed among other things the format for the self-evaluation that was used in the 2010 Research Assessment Exercise.

During the period that the ERiC project was ongoing, the 3TU.Federation (3TU) asked the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) to provide input on the proper criteria used in ex-ante and ex-post assessments of research output in both design and engineering.

In late 2010, immediately following the 2010 research assessment for architecture and the built environment, the KNAW's Council for the Technical Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy and Chemistry (TWINS) published its advisory report.

The KNAW TWINS Council concluded that in design and engineering two criteria would do: (i) scientific quality and (ii) societal relevance. According to the council, assessing quality should be a question of fine-tuning, owing to the differences between the disciplines (including their publication cultures), categories of scientific activity (design, research) and assessment situations (external evaluation, appointment, research proposal).

Listed below are the reports and articles that were produced in the framework of the ERIC project and the work of the KNAW TWINS Council.

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