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Tracking the societal impact of research infrastructures.

Date

2011 – on-going
Clients
European Commission DG Research & Innovation
STRATA
European Southern Observatory
Lithuanian Ministry of Education & Science
ESFRI
Partners /
Co-authors
Elīna Grīniece
Jelena Angelis

Tracking the societal impact of research infrastructures.

Since 2011, REID has been overseeing the implementation and monitoring the impact of investments in research infrastructures (RI) from national to international scale. Based on four years of hands-on work providing technical assistance to the Lithuanian government to deliver a €350 million programme to upgrade university and research centres labs, REID and partners designed a first version of an impact pathway model to track results.

This inspired a European level project (RI-PATHS) which over two-and-a-half-year period of co-design activity with major European research infrastructures including CERN, delivered an online toolkit for RI managers to track their impact. REID has also been a member of an EFSFRI working group on key performance indicators and recently was part of a team applying the impact pathways approach to the case of the European Southern Observatory.

European Southern Observatory - Extremely Large Telescope (Chile)
Report
Read the 2015 report on impact pathwaysESFRI Working Group Report on KPIs for research infrastructures

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