EVALUATION OF RESEARCH PROJECTS.

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The European Commission's Research Directorate-General has issued an invitation to tender for two services aimed at evaluating the finished projects of three Community research programmes. The evaluation would take place annually, in collaboration with the Commission, and would cover the IMT (industrial and material technologies), SMT (standards, measurements and testing) and transport programmes. The contract would involve assessing the characteristics of the achieved project results and the impacts in terms of industrial applications, economic gains and social and environmental aspects, using a methodology of indicators based on the 15 project monitoring criteria used by the Commission. The call is divided into two batches. The first covers an annual ex post evaluation of research projects from the three programmes, covering the results, and expected impacts. Around 2,000 projects completed between 1999 and 2003 require evaluation over a five year period. The second batch covers the annual ex post impact assessment of research...