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Development and Testing of a Concept for Documentation and Evaluation of Productive Interactions and Impacts on Practice and Society in Agricultural Research
Project
Project code: 2812NA103
Contract period: 01.12.2012
- 30.06.2016
Budget: 173,134 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
The project aims to contribute to an increase in the acknowledgement of societal contributions made by agricultural research, in addition to that of scientific quality and impact. To this end we developed and tested a documentation structure and an evaluation concept for agricultural projects; these provide synergies with research funding agencies, in order to generate multiple benefit at reasonable effort. The documentation structure extends the information that is already recorded in current research information systems (CRIS). We developed the structured documentation of contributions related to practice/society as a possibility for replacing passages in proposals and reports dealing with aims, attainment and exploitation plans, and enabling broader access to outputs via links and uploads. We also included stakeholder descriptions and framework conditions to cater to complexity in innovation systems, and a bar chart for scheduling to support project management and administration. The concept for evaluating projects 2-3 years after completion is based on information in the extended CRIS. It focuses on project design (especially transdisciplinarity issues), processes and outputs (target group orientation and open access), applicability (in products, services, behaviour, policy etc.) and associated (potential) impacts (ecological, economic, social/cultural). Furthermore, stakeholder involvement in documentation and evaluation processes is recommended to complement scientists’ self-reporting and enable a reflexive evaluation approach. Project evaluations are not only meaningful for funders; ‘awarded projects’ (weighted with the amount of funding) may also be an easy-to-use indicator in the evaluation of institutes or scientists. The results of the project can be used to contribute to the extension of existing CRIS. The evaluation concept can be used with or without an extended CRIS
Section overview
Subjects
- Agricultural Policy
- Resource management
Framework programme
Federal Organic Farming Scheme and other forms of sustainable agriculture (BÖLN)
