Siegfried Reich

Austrian Success in the 6th Framework Programme of the EU

September 12th, 2006

Sabine Herlitschka from FFG, recently announced statistical data on Austria’s competitiveness in the 6th European Framework Programme. See e.g. a report in Computerworld.at.

Unfortunately, the report does directly refer to data. The ministry of science and education coordinates twice a year a status report (Proviso, see http://www.bmbwk.gv.at/proviso and an actual report from spring 2006 http://www.bmbwk.gv.at/medienpool/13535/fopro1043din130606_20060612.pdf).

Another excellent initiative is “project intelligence”, see http://pi.ijs.si/, which allows browsing for FP5 and FP6 projects by projects, countries, etc. One of the core issues is with all data, that there is quite some dodgy-ness in the acquisition: most data only refers to proposals (not actual projects). Still, it is a valueable indicator for international performance of organisations (and Salzburg Research has been particularly well in FP5, FP6 has no final data available yet).

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