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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 ...

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, Sc...

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.LinksEmilio Velis: https://emiliovelis.com/about/Appropedia Foundation: ...

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 rep...

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 S...

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 Praktiku...