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2010-11-08--09euroCRIS Membership Meeting @

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The CRIS Landscape of the Czech Republic

Jan DvořákInfoScience Praha


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Outline The State Research Funding System

Overview CRISs in the CR

The Central CRIS The Funding Provider CRISs The Research Organization CRISs

The Results Evaluation The Performance-based Research Funding

System


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Research in the CR: the Grand Picture The State is the main funder of research

~ 1 G€ / year ~ 2 % of the State Budget size ~ 0.7 % of GDP

Increase from < 0.5 % in the 1990-ies ~ 40 % of total R&D expenditures

R&D is financed through ~20 state budget chapters

The Research & Development & Innovation Council


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The R&D&I Council

A Government advisory body No direct research funder Has a strong say in budgeting

Head Prime minister 16 members:

10 from Universities & Academy of Sciences 5 from industry 1 representative of the State


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The R&D&I Council Tasks

Prepares the R&D&I State Budget Proposal Runs the Czech R&D&I Information System

the central CRIS Many others

Anchored in Legislation Act on Public Support to Research, Experimental

Development and Innovation(no. 130/2002 Coll.)

Major update in 2009


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The 2 Types of State Research FundingTargeted funding Czech Science Foundation

(the “Grant Agency”) Funding of Basic Research 1-3 year grants

Technology Agency of the CR Funding of Applied Research,

Development, Innovation Taking off

Ministry of Education R&D Infrastructures

Other ministries Health, Industry & Trade,

Agriculture, Defense, Interior, Culture

Others

Institutional funding Base funding to keep

research organizations running Increasingly

research performance-based

Formerly through Institutional Research Plans (binary yes/no)

International Cooperation in R&D

Operational Programmes

FPs


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The State Funding Providers

Ministry of Education Academy of Sciences Czech Science Foundation Technology Agency of the CR Sectorial Ministries

Health, Industry & Trade, Agriculture, Defense, Interior, Culture, Transport, Environment, Local Development, Labor & Social Affairs, Justice, Foreign Affairs


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The Research Organizations Academy of Sciences

52 institutes, full coverage of disciplines 23 Public Universities

Charles University in Prague (est. 1348) Czech Technical University in Prague (est. 1707) Masaryk University in Brno Brno University of Technology …

Sectorial Research Institutes Health, Labor & Social Affairs, International

Relationships, …


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The CRISs All these players have a need for CRISs

Most have recognized the need Quite many do have a CRIS

There are massive data flows between the CRISs


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The national CRIS The Czech R&D&I Information System

Commissioned and managed by the R&D&I Council

Also anchored in legislation Run by the Computing and Information Centre,

Czech Technical University Maintained & developed by InfoScience Praha,

s.r.o.


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The Czech R&D&I Information System Emphasis on:

Budget … Planning Proposing Adjusting to approved figures

Programmes (Schemes) Projects Results

Source data for the Result evaluation Performance-based Research Funding System


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The Czech R&D&I Information System Mostly a reporting system

Strong data integration agenda Currently ~70 different data structures

Data processing in the Results evaluation


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The Funding Providers’ CRISs Emphasis on

Tendering (Calls, Project Proposals) Year-to-year mgmt of awarded projects

Making the funding available Getting the reports

Finished project evaluation


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The Funding Providers’ CRISs Home-built

Czech Science Foundation (2 000+ running projects), Ministry of Economy & Trade (~ 900 running projects), …

Custom-built Technology Agency of the CR


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The Funding Providers’ CRISs Marketed product

“eProjekty” by eProjekty Praha, s.r.o. Ministries of: Education, Agriculture, Transport, Regional

Development

Default tool “Vklap” – part of the Czech R&D&I IS

(editing data files, merging; for small-scale providers)


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The Research Organizations’ CRISs Emphasis on

Awarded grants Research results


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The Research Organizations’ CRISs Home-built

Czech Technical University Charles University (some faculties)

Custom-built ASEP by Cosmotron Bohemia, s.r.o.

publications all Academy of Sciences institutes (run by the Library)

→ [talk tomorrow by I. Laiblová-Kadlecová]


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The Research Organizations’ CRISs Marketed Products

OBDPRO by DERS, s.r.o. → [following talk by J. Hanousek]

Charles University (gradually) Many medium and small public universities

IS by Masaryk University in Brno Masaryk University in Brno Charles University (one faculty) Several private universities

Default tool (the “Vklap”)


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The Czech CRISs: common aspects CERIF-inspired, but not CERIF-compliant

Other CRISs generally follow the Czech R&D&I Information System Usability for reporting is a strong feature point

The Result evaluation Based on results data from the Czech R&D&I

IS Results from a 5-year sliding window

Results assigned points Basically constant JCR-listed journal articles: points depend on the

rank of the journal in its category Points divided between research

organizations Proportion of authors affiliated with the

organization


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The Performance-based Research Funding System Based on the Result evaluation results Currently linear dependence:

result points → basic fundingper research organization

Damping Only 1 new year of results in the evaluation

window (out of 5 years) Limited room for reallocations between disciplines 4-years transition period


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The Performance-based Research Funding System

Results from years Evaluated in Decide funding in

2003-2007 2008 2010 – 10 %

2004-2008 2009 2011 – 30 %

2005-2009 2010 2012 – 60 %

2006-2010 2011 2013 – 90 %


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The Performance-based Research Funding SystemCommonly mentioned +’s The previous system of

institutional research plans was less transparent and had dire consequences Approved / not approved

(for 5 years) Much less work than RAE Leaves little room for

personal friends & foes Rewards excellence in

Science disciplines

Commonly mentioned –’s Cannot work across

disciplines (different “costs”, publishing patterns)

Rewards production of low quality in large quantities

“Einstein wouldn’t get a single point”

…

Nicknamed “coffee mill”

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