Evaluation principles
The purpose of the evaluation is to analyse a unit’s strengths and weaknesses and to enable it to position itself better within its scientific and geographical environment. It also gives the unit’s supervising bodies all of the necessary information for decision-making. Lastly, it provides the department for the evaluation of institutions with information for performing an overall analysis of the unit’s research strategy.
What you need to know
- The analysis of the unit focuses on its scientific production, its appeal and socioeconomic integration, its strategy and the assessment of its plan. These four items are scored according to a four-point scale: A+, A, B and C.
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The evaluation seeks first of all to determine the quality of scientific production. The following are also taken into account:
- scientific influence
- active participation in national and international networks and programmes
- risk-taking in research (particularly at disciplinary interfaces)
- accessibility for the world of social demand
- responsibilities in research management (national, international) or in the publication of reviews (editor-in-chief) or international collections (director)
- investment in the dissemination of scientific culture
- applied research or expertise
- estimation of the proportion of researchers and professors "productive in terms of research and results’ exploitation".
