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This time we take the opportunity to share our take-aways from the 2023 Autumn Event by the European Evaluation Society (EES) under the Motto "Alternative Futures: What role for evaluation in a just transition?".  As our interview guest, we invited May Pettigrew, EES Vice Chair and main organiser of the Autumn Event to discuss with us the impressions we had. We chat about the diversity of contributions to this online conference, learn how plurality is key for just transitions as well as meaningful evaluations, and we get recommendations what evaluators need to understand and do now to cope with AI technologies entering the field. In particular, we focus on two sessions:

1) Session "Evaluating the Impact of Innovation and SME Support Programs:
Unleashing Entrepreneurial Potential" - Full recording of the session [via YouTube]
Contribution by Cliff Paredes,  Massachusetts SBDC Network Contribution by Raffaele Trapasso,  OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions & Cities Closing by Mita Marra,  Editor In Chief at Evaluation and Program Planning 2) Keynote  "A just Transition" by Linda Raftree, MERL Tech Initiative
- Full recording of the keynote talk [via YouTube]

Thank you for this great conversation!

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 Als kleines Geschenk von der und für die Community haben wir in diesem Jahr eine Weihnachtsfolge aufgezeichnet! 
Wir haben jene, die uns in den letzten Wochen und Monaten vor's Mikrofon gekommen sind, gefragt, was ihr Wunsch als Christkind für FTI-Politik ist. 
Viel Spaß mit der Weihnachtsfolge und gute Unterhaltung mit den Wünschen unserer Betragenden!
Susanne Bührer, Fraunhofer ISINeil Brown, Technopolis Group | UKFlorentine Frantz, Technopolis Group | AustriaHans Holzinger, Scientists 4 FuturePeter Kolarz, Technopolis Group | UKKatja Mayer, Universität Wien und Zentrum für Soziale InnovationSusanne Meyer, BMKMichael Ploder, Joanneum ResearchSiegfried Reich, Salzburg ResearchThomas Scherngell, AITKlaus Schuch, Zentrum für Soziale InnovationSonja Sheikh, ACR, Obfrau der fteval Plattform und Rätin im Rat für Forschung, Wissenschaft, Innovation und TechnologieentwicklungTanja Spenlingwimmer, awsMichael Stampfer, WWTFKatharina Warta, Technopolis Group | Austria und ehem. Obfrau der fteval PlattformLinks zu den erwähnten Veranstaltungen: 
RISIS 2 International ConferenceGRANteD Stakeholder ConferenceWissenstage Salzburg 2023REvaluation Conference 2024 - SAVE THE DATE!

Die besten Wünsche für ein gutes neues Forschungsjahr! 
Tobias & Isabella

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Klangeffekt: Magic by Sonically Sound (Enes DENIZ) - https://freesound.org/people/sonically_sound/sounds/613163/ 
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This episode completes our little series about participation that started with Episode 15 . We take a closer look at participation in the context of open innovation processes using the example of “Appropedia”, a wiki-based ontology that was itself developed in a participatory manner. In this interview with Emilio Velis, we learn that participatory projects must always give the community involved the opportunity to learn.
Links
Emilio Velis: https://emiliovelis.com/about/Appropedia Foundation: https://www.appropedia.org/Welcome_to_AppropediaSpecial Issue of the fteval Journal: If you are interested in receiving a printed version of the special issue, please feel free to drop us a note! podcast [at] fteval.atDirect link the the Article “Documenting and assessing open innovation: co-creation of an open data model for surgical training” by Julieta Arancio, Emilio Velis and Diego TorresArticle about a follow-up project “Towards open source patents: Semi-automated open hardware certification from MediaWiki websites“This episode was made possible with the kind support of the Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology. Thank you!
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Katja Mayer gives fascinating insights into participatory methods for evaluation, with a particular focus on evaluating science projects that themselves have participatory elements. We learn that it is a challenge for scientists to suddenly be moderators of a complex debate and mediators of group dynamics. But we also learn how this can be tackled and how a participatory process can be democratising rather than exploiting. Also, participation does not mean to include everybody, but to get representation right for the purpose of the project at stake.
With a fundamental understanding that evaluation has to be part of every research project and not something that is done by auditors afterwards, Katja invites planning, designing and creating impact together from scratch. This is how it is a co-evaluative journey throughout the research process and citizens will not feel evaluated themselves, but get a tool at hand to be masters of their own impact.
Our focus episodes on participatory methods are drawing from the experience we made in the special issue #54 of the fteval Journal. The next episode 16 presents an interview with Emilio Velis with an approach to open innovation.
Links
Special Issue of the fteval Journal:If you are interested in receiving a printed version of the special issue, please feel free to drop us a note! podcast [at] fteval.atKatja MayerWhitepaper on Co-evaluation of Citizen Social ScienceCoACT Project: Co­designing Citizen Social Science for Collective ActionPaper about the term "Citizen" in Citizen Science Antonella Passani, T6ACTION Project: Participatory science toolkit against pollutionImpetus Project: Impetus for Citizen ScienceThe “OIS Zam” conference series as a good practice example for an “arena” for citizens, researchers and fundersEpisode 16 on open innovation: Interview with Emilio VelisThis episode was made possible with the kind support of the Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology. Thank you! 
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In this episode, we look at the question of how to evaluate large research infrastructures – from the Large Hadron Collider to the European Social Survey. We conducted a very exciting online interview with our colleagues Neil Brown and Peter Kolarz from Technopolis Group | UK. We learnt that a new research infrastructure is like a life commitment and that you have to immerse yourself in order to understand the effects on all dimensions. 
Neil BrownPeter KolarzImpact page of the European Social Survey (ESS)Impact study of the ESSCERNEvaluation of the Benefits that the UK has derived from CERNThis episode was made possible with the kind support of the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF). It is part of the initiative of the BMBWF for strengthening trust in sciecne and democracy in Austria (#TruSD). Thank you very much!
 
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Wie Digitalisierungspionierinnen Gesellschaft gestalten und wie man sie fördert, solche zu werden haben wir diesmal Roland Sommer von der Plattform Industrie 4.0 und Fridolin Herkommer von der Bundesarbeitskammer gefragt.
Wir stellen ein Förderprogramm vor, bei dem junge Frauen die Gelegenheit bekommen, ein Praktikum im Bereich Digitalisierung an Unternehmen zu absolvieren und davor Schulungen zur Weiterentwicklung ihrer unternehmerischen und persönlichen Fähigkeiten sowie während des Praktikums Mentoring von Arbeitsmarktspezialisten bekommen: die Digital Pioneers.
Das Pilotprogramm hat als kooperative Initiative der Plattform Industrie 4.0 in einigen Bundesländern gestartet und war so erfolgreich, dass es als "Digital Pioneers Scheck" vom BMK weiter unterstützt und in das Portfolio der FFG eingegliedert wurde. So versucht man nun mit lokalen Partner:innen eine bundesweite Ausrollung zu erreichen.
 Als Grundlage für diese Weiterentwicklung wurde eine Evaluierungsstudie beauftragt. 
Was man aus der Pilotförderrunde und in der Evaluierung gelernt hat, welche Herausforderungen das Programm stellt und welche wichtigen Dynamiken im Bereich Digitalisierung es sonst noch gibt, das und noch einiges mehr erfahren wir in diesem kurzweiligen Gespräch. 

Links und weiterführende Informationen:
Roland Sommer, GF der Plattform Industrie 4.0  Fridolin Herkommer, Bundesarbeitskammer Das Projekt Digital Pioneers Digital Pioneers (Scheck) auf der FFG-WebseitePilotregionen und LinksOberösterreich: www.bfi-ooe.atTirol: www.bfi.tirolVorarlberg: www.digitalcampusvorarlberg.atDiese Folge wurde mit freundlicher Unterstützung des Bundesministeriums für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Energie, Mobilität, Innovation und Technologie ermöglicht. Vielen Dank!
Fotocredit: Das Foto der Digitalpionierin im Artwork stammt von Nina Bröll wurde mit freundlicher Genehmigung des Digital Campus Vorarlberg verwendet. 
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