What the evaluation record tells us about European Union Framework Programme performance

Erik Arnold (), John Clark and Alessandro Muscio

Science and Public Policy, 2005, vol. 32, issue 5, 385-397

Abstract: The European Union's (EU's) Framework Programmes of Research and Technological Development are subject to increasingly systematic evaluation. This paper reviews available evalua-tion evidence from the period 1999 to 2004, and concludes that the Framework Programmes appear to bring many benefits for their participants. In a broad sense, they promote Framework's high-level goals of supporting the European scientific and industrial base. However, the way the Framework is planned ensures that links between low- and high-level goals are unclear, and many goals are actually undemanding. Framework needs more clearly and continuously to be linked to developments in EU policy as part of a more systemic approach to evaluation and strategic intelligence in the Commission. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

Date: 2005
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