The evaluation of research has become more important as expectations for research to support social and economic improvements have risen. However, there are currently a wide variety of measures to measure the impact of research, with some disagreements between policy makers and the research...

In recent decades, developments in European research policy making have led to an enhancement of the role and function of evaluation to cope with the growing globalisation of research and the need to ensure effective research systems at the national level and in the European Research Area. These...

The guide provides an original framework and methodological advice on how to identify, scope and assess the environmental pressures and impacts of research and innovation policy. The central assumption in the overall framework is that any integrated assessment seeking to identify and measure...

The guide provides an original framework and methodological advice on how to identify, scope and assess the environmental pressures and impacts of research and innovation policy. The central assumption in the overall framework is that any integrated assessment seeking to identify and measure...

Digital technologies are part of the daily life of children. It opens a vast field of opportunities, especially for acquiring knowledge and skills but it is also source of new risks. These can be related to technologies (eg. Mobile Internet), consumerist injunctions, or personal data and private...

This is the final report of the Interim Evaluation of Space Research and Innovation under Horizon 2020. Technopolis and VVA carried out this Interim Evaluation for DG GROW using the Commission's standard evaluation methodology, as recommended in the Regulation No 1291/2013. The evaluation was...

The Background Report provides an overview of the Bulgarian science, research and innovation system in the context of the Specific Support to Bulgaria within the Horizon 2020 Policy Support Facility. The report begins by elaborating on the country's socio-economic context and addresses, in a...

The objective of this study was to analyse the current national initiatives for the deployment of clouds in the public sector in ten Member States, to identify and describe best practice use cases and to propose pilots for those application areas where current cloud take-up is absent or however...