PUBLICATIONS
Special Issues
fteval Journal issue #57 – Proceedings of the REvaluation Conference 2024, 8th Profeedback Conference – LINK
Sustainable Urban Development Prospective for Smart Cities – Prof. Dr. Jaroslav Dvorak, Dr. Katarína Vitálisová, Prof. Dr. Vitalii Kruklov – LINK
Quality of Life Journal, Vol. 36 No. 3 (2025) — coordinated by Claudia Petrescu, Luca Koltai, and Jaroslav Dvorak; contains contributions by Heidi Paabort, Mai Beilmann, Irina Lonean, Marta de Oliveira Rodrigues, Armando Loureiro, Sofia Marques da Silva – LINK
Research Assessment, Evaluation Methods & Theory
Designing a Theory of Change in less than an hour. Enabling rapid, collaborative development with a context-independent card-set — Erika Hajdu, Giovanna Lima, and Stefan De Jong – LINK
Exploring unintended consequences in STI evaluations and monitoring. Towards a framework for unintended consequences and its use in evaluation and monitoring exercises — Sarah Seus, Florian Wittmann, and Nele Weiblen – LINK
Indicators and Metrics in SSH Research: How Scholars Value Publication Practices in the Face of Epistemic Capitalism — Florian Bayer – LINK
Inside the funding process: Using generative AI to assess reviewers’ criteria prioritisation in multi-stage application assessments — Peter Kolarz and Diogo Machado – LINK
Reframing Research Assessment: towards a comprehensive framework for Researcher Profiles — Lottie Provost and Zenia Xenou – LINK
Research assessment as a tool for strategic management. Promoting interdisciplinarity through enhancement-led evaluation at the University of Helsinki — Aura Kivilaakso and Johanna Kolhinen – LINK
The role of change agent characteristics in research assessment: Experiences from an evaluation of a research fellowship program in Germany — Hendrik Berghäuser – LINK
Innovation, R&I Policy & Transformative Change
Advancing Research Impact Evaluation in the Digital Era: Insights from EU-Funded Rare Disease Projects — Ioanna Grypari, Sergio Di Virgilio, Haris Papageorgiou, Aris Fergadis, and Dimitris Pappas – LINK
Digitalization in evaluations and evaluations of digitalization: The changing landscape of evaluations — Oto Potluka, Sven Harten, and Jaroslav Dvorak – LINK
Enhancing EU Policy Through Complexity Metrics: A new lens for research and innovation — Florence Benoit, Valentina Di Girolamo, Dario Diodato, Erik Canton, and Julien Ravet – LINK
Evaluating transformative innovation policy instruments. The example of the Austrian programme for the promotion of female researchers “INNOVATORINNEN” — Verena Régent and Brigitte Ecker – LINK
Evaluation of R&D and innovation policy in Ukraine: Missing elements — Vitalii Gryga, Olha Krasovska, and Yuliia Ryzhkova – LINK
The Contribution of R&I programmes to Transition: Evidence on Transformative Outcomes in the areas of the Green Transition and the Energy Transition — Michael Dinges, Christiane Kerlen, Surya Knöbel, and Kathleen Toepel – LINK
The situation of R&I policy evaluation in COST Inclusiveness Target Countries — Klaus Schuch, Nino Gogadze, Vitalii Gryga, Attila Havas, Renata Anna Jaksa, Olha Krasovska, Arzu Kursun, Sofia Liarti, Eriona Shtembari, Miroslav Stefanik, Lena Tsipouri, and Albena Vutsova – LINK
Theoretical reflections on the role of social innovation in challenge and goal-oriented R&I agenda — Klaus Schuch – LINK
Unveiling innovation: Using Innovation Biographies in Evaluation Practice – A Reflection — Kathleen Toepel – LINK
Social Policy, Education & Inclusion
Bridging research and policy: The development of FAMILENS for family impact analysis in Italy — Elisabetta Carrà – LINK
Equity in education: A handbook for participative approaches in research and development to address school inequalities — Eriada Çela – LINK
Evaluation of the “Focus on the Child” programme in Hungary — Luca Koltai and Nóra Teller – LINK
Ireland’s paternity leave: sluggish benefit take-up and occupational inequalities — Stephan Köppe – LINK
The Effects of the Crossroads Programme of Early School Leaving and Secondary School Choice — Bálint Herczeg, Luca Koltai, and Kinga Tóth – LINK
Governance, Civil Society & Regional Policy
Civil society engagement in Republic of Moldova’s accession negotiations: Implications and perspectives — Melania-Gabriela Ciot and Valeriu Șargarovschi – LINK
Proposing a Governance Related Component and Indicators Evaluation Matrix to Assessing the Social Inclusiveness Dimension of the New European Bauhaus Projects — Eduardo Medeiros and Oto Potluka – LINK
Towards an evaluation framework for international strategic partnerships between universities. A co-creative approach — Leonie Van Drooge and Niki Vermeulen – LINK
Sectoral and Thematic Evaluations (Transport, Energy, Technology)
Afraid of automation? Choose your training carefully — Lukas Laffers, Zuzana Kostalova, and Miroslav Stefanik – LINK
Cost–Benefit Analysis in High-Speed Railway Projects: Appraisal of Methodological Approaches and an Initial Social Equity Evaluation, A Case Study — Elisabetta Venezia – LINK
Energy and Resource Efficiency in the Economy: The evaluation of Germany’s large industrial funding programme using mixed methods — Lisa Neusel and Simon Hirzel – LINK
Evaluating “Learning and experimental spaces”. When a traditional approach reaches its limits — Christina Schuh, Daniel Schwertfeger, and Sonja Fringes – LINK
Evaluating the Introduction of Scottish Gaelic Public Broadcaster BBC Alba — Craig Willis and Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed – LINK
Evaluation of artificial intelligence-enhanced critical infrastructure systems: A conceptual framework — Steven Pudney, David Mills, and Oto Potluka – LINK
Evaluation in the Transport Sector and SDGs — Elisabetta Venezia – LINK
Hedonic prices and economic evaluations of green areas and transport infrastructures incidences on real estate values — Elisabetta Venezia – LINK
Transport Infrastructures for The Elderly: Evaluation of Economic Effects — Elisabetta Venezia – LINK