Work Packages

WP3 Best practice in research management

Landfill imageThe Finnish Ministry of the Environment and Finnish Environment Institute lead this work package. The objective is to share and identify best practice in research planning and management, from project inception to delivery. It involves obtaining information on research management in the participants' countries. The main output of this Work package is a report and guidelines identifying best practice for programme management (Published July 2006) and common evaluation procedures (published June 2007).

Workshop in Helsinki 8-9 October 2008

Results of the research study on ERA-Nets management challenges will be presented at the workshop in Helsinki in October 8-9 2008. The workshop will also include focus group discussions with environmental ERA-Nets coordinators to identify the possible solutions for overcoming the challenges of trans-national calls. The draft agenda is available for comment. Hotel accomodation is also available for delegates.

You can pre-register by sending email to olga.mashkina@ymparisto.fi

Report on Programme Evaluation published

The report, which concentrates on programme evaluation, and is one of the contributions of Work Package 3. Written by

Paula Kivimaa, Hanna Mela & Eeva Furman.

Poster exhibited at Bridging the Gap

A poster on this work package was presented at the Bridging the Gap conference in Slovenia.

Research on Management Challenges for ERA-Nets' Transnational Research Programmes

Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) and Finland's Ministry of the Environment (FiMoE) are proceeding  with research of the management challenges for  ERA-Nets' trans-national research programmes on is-sues important for environmental governance.  The detailed research plan is now available.

Report on how research funding could promote the production of policy relevant research knowledge and its use in political decision-making

Political decision-making uses among others things the knowledge generated by scientific research. The relationship between science and policy is, however complicated. Science and policy have different working cultures, aims and ways of communication, which poses a challenge to their interaction. This article discusses how research funding could promote the production of policy relevant research knowledge and its use in political decision-making. A study made within the SKEP ERA-Net is used as an example. Supra-national, jointly funded research programmes are also discussed. The focus of the article is environment-related research but can also be applied to research funding in general.  

Report available for download

A report on the approaches and practices in mid-term and ex-post evaluation of environmental research programmes has been published.

Report and guidelines 

The report identifying best practice for programme management have been submitted to the Commission.

Workshop on common evaluation procedures

A workshop was held in the Aland Islands in April 2007 to discuss common evaluation procedures.