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Collaborative project: Research Information System and Evaluation Concept for Research Contributions to Practice and Society – Optimized Through Pilot Studies Within Funding Agencies for Agricultural Research. Subproject 1 (SynSICRIS)

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Project code: 2819108616
Contract period: 18.10.2017 - 17.10.2020
Budget: 1,478,103 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research

The project aims to further developing the preliminary documentation and evaluation concept for research and innovation projects, which was worked out in the project Praxis-Impact II grant 2812NA102. The overall aim of this concept is to facilitate a research culture that is oriented towards impact for practice and society. We will further develop the concept up to a pilot-operations maturity level – based on the requirements of the agricultural innovation system (funding organizations, researchers, knowledge brokers, knowledge users). The documentation concept shall be implemented by extending a research information system (RIS) a) by achievements for practice and society and b) by information that is required by the funding agency (in order to replace parts of project reports and project proposals). The extended RIS shall a) support funding decisions and project supervision, b) enable a high-quality evaluation of projects’ societal contributions, and c) increase quality, transfer and accessibility of target-group oriented project outputs. The project evaluation concept shall a) strengthen projects’ focus on societal benefits by participatory documentation and evaluation processes, b) allow assessment of the orientation of funding programs towards societal impact, and c) acknowledge particularly successful projects. The agro-innovation system’s requirements to an extended RIS and an appropriate evaluation concept will be acquired through participation and collaborative test processes with experts in a living lab approach. They will be technically realized in several iterative implementation cycles. The implementation of the extended DSpace-CRIS will follow an agile software engineering approach. Usable and testable intermediate software versions as well as the further developed evaluation concept will be employed for test and validation steps throughout the project implementation phases. BLE and three further funding agencies will perform intensive tes

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