What the evaluation record tells us about European Union Framework Programme performance

Authors: Arnold, Erik; Clark, John; Muscio, Alessandro

Source: Science and Public Policy, Volume 32, Number 5, 1 October 2005 , pp. 385-397(13)

Publisher: Beech Tree Publishing

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Abstract:

The European Union’s (EU’s) Framework Programmes of Research and Technological Development are subject to increasingly systematic evaluation. This paper reviews available evalua-tion evidence from the period 1999 to 2004, and concludes that the Framework Programmes appear to bring many benefits for their participants. In a broad sense, they promote Framework’s high-level goals of supporting the European scientific and industrial base. However, the way the Framework is planned ensures that links between low- and high-level goals are unclear, and many goals are actually undemanding. Framework needs more clearly and continuously to be linked to developments in EU policy as part of a more systemic approach to evaluation and strategic intelligence in the Commission.

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Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3152/147154305781779335

Publication date: 2005-10-01

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