Making European performance and impact assessment frameworks glocal
Abstract
Sustainability of research infrastructures (RIs) is a big challenge for funders, stakeholders and operators, and the development and adoption of adequate management tools is a major concern, namely tools for monitoring and evaluating their performance and impact. BioData.pt is the Portuguese Infrastructure of Biological and Portuguese node of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures “Landmark” ELIXIR. The foundations of this national research infrastructure were laid under the “Building BioData.pt” project, for four years. During this period, performance and impact indicators were collected and analysed under the light of international guidelines for assessing the performance and impact of European research infrastructures produced by the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the EU-funded RI-PATHS project. The exercise shared herein showed that these frameworks can be adopted by national RIs, with the necessary adaptations, namely to reflect the national landscape and specificity of activities, and can be powerful tools in supporting the management of RIs.
“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted, counts”. Albert Einstein, Theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner
Corresponding author: Ana M.P. Melo
Competing interests: No competing interests were disclosed.
Grant information: The work was funded by “Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia” (FCT) and PT2020, through the BioData.pt project (PINFRA/22231/2016), the European Union Horizon 2020 through ELIXIR-CONVERGE (871075), and the ELIXIR Strategic Implementation Study “Impact evaluation at Node-level – getting it done”.
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Copyright: © 2022 Melo AMP et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
How to cite: Melo AMP, Oliveira S, Oliveira JS et al. Making European performance and impact assessment frameworks glocal [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]. F1000Research 2022, 11(ELIXIR):278 (https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.108804.1)
First published: 04 Mar 2022, 11(ELIXIR):278 (https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.108804.1)
Latest published: 04 Mar 2022, 11(ELIXIR):278 (https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.108804.1)
