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Evaluation for the Allocation of University Research Project Funding: Can Rules Improve the Peer Review?
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Reale, Emanuela; Zinilli, Antonio – Research Evaluation, 2017
Evaluation for the allocation of project-funding schemes devoted to sustain academic research often undergoes changes of the rules for the ex-ante selection, which are supposed to improve the capability of peer review to select the best proposals. How modifications of the rules realize a more accountable evaluation result? Do the changes suggest…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Peer Evaluation, Financial Support, Research Proposals
How Europe Shapes Academic Research: Insights from Participation in European Union Framework Programmes
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Primeri, Emilia; Reale, Emanuela – European Journal of Education, 2012
This article describes the effects of participating in European Union Framework Programmes (EUFPs) at the level of research units and researchers. We consider EUFPs as policy instruments that contribute to the Europeanisation of academic research and study the changes they produce with respect to: 1) the organisation and activities of Departments,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
Bureaucratization in Public Research Institutions
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Coccia, Mario – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2009
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the nature of bureaucratization within public research bodies and its relationship to scientific performance, focusing on an Italian case-study. The main finding is that the bureaucratization of the research sector has two dimensions: public research labs have academic bureaucratization since researchers…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Researchers, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
Science, Society and Sustainability: Education and Empowerment for an Uncertain World. Routledge Research in Education
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Gray, Donald, Ed.; Colucci-Gray, Laura, Ed.; Camino, Elena, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
Recent work in science and technological studies has provided a clearer understanding of the way in which science functions in society and the interconnectedness among different strands of science, policy, economy and environment. It is well acknowledged that a different way of thinking is required in order to address problems facing the global…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship, Democracy, Science and Society
Building a Community among Teachers, Researchers and University Students. A Blended Approach to Training
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Cesareni, Donatella; Martini, Francesca; Mancini, Ilaria – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2011
In this paper we present a case study about a community of practice's foundation and development among Italian teachers, researchers and university students who participated in a European project aimed at developing and testing innovative pedagogical models and technologies for collaborative knowledge building. Forty-five people (34 teachers, five…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blended Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction, Case Studies
Career Orientations and Career Route Preferences in R&D Organisations.
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Petroni, Alberto – Career Development International, 2000
A survey of 151 Italian scientists and engineers and case studies of a career development system for technical professionals revealed that career orientation (as measured by Schein's career anchors) is a useful predictor of career route preferences. (Author/JOW)
Descriptors: Adults, Career Development, Case Studies, Engineers
Improving the Management of Urban Research: City/University Co-Operation. OECD Urban Management Studies 5. Revised.
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1982
The papers in this collection were presented at an international symposium on improving the management of urban research, particularly through city-university collaboration. An introductory framework paper summarizes the range of research services available to local government, the types of urban research activity, and the problems of urban…
Descriptors: Action Research, Case Studies, City Government, Cooperative Programs