Symbol explanation
STAKEHOLDERS
Research infrastructures
Private sector
Public sector
Mass media
Policy makers & Funders
Researchers
VALUE LEGENDS
Knowledge, information
Data, tools, instruments
Scientific recognition & RI visibility
Economic value, innovation, efficiency gain
Networking & Qualification
Societal solutions
Science and society
Creating and shaping scientific networks and communities
This pathway addresses how RIs contribute to the creation of networks among researchers, and how the effects generated by these interactions generate societal and economic impacts. In particular, distributed RIs create ‘communities of practice’ by providing staff and user-training opportunities. Exchange of experiences and practices among staff members who cooperate on concrete issues and find solutions to common challenges, serving as an ‘eye-opener’ function for problems that would either not occur or could not be solved in traditional, single-site operations. RIs also induce further networking effects among their user communities whether they are single-sited or distributed.
Primary
Indicators
Society
Human Resources
Policy
Economy and Innovation
Activity
- Number of scientific users
- Visits to (high-level) scientific events
- Hosting of (high-level) scientific events
Outcome
- Satisfaction of scientific users
- Use of open data (access and download)
Activity
- Number of conferences/seminars hosted/organised by RI
- Scientific collaborations with other RIs (joint projects)
- Number and duration of stays of Post-Docs/Professors
- Number and duration of stays of M.Sc./Ph.D. students
Outcome
- Excellent collaborations (visits by world leading teams)
Impact
- Increased Prestige as Training Facility
- Scientific attractiveness
Activity
- Participation of RI in local/ regional networks (e.g. clusters)
- Presence of RI in relevant committees that define scientific norms
- Presence of RI in relevant thematic committees
Impact
- Increased trust in science
Outcome
- Uptake of accessible data sets/instruments/tools outside RI (in science)
Secondary
Indicators
Society
Human Resources
Economy and Innovation
Policy
Activity
- Public awareness: visitors on website and followers on social media
- People reached and engaged in outreach activities
- Number of promotional events, exhibitions, fairs
Impact
- Contribution to Gender balance
- Contribution to social sustainability: CSR, Social Inclusion, Culture
- Contribution to environmental sustainability: Energy & Waste issues
- Contribution to public sector challenges: Administration & governance
- Improvement of wellbeing: Health & Ageing
- Inclusion of topics in schools and academic curricula
Activity
- Number of publications weighted by impact
- Number of publications
- Number of technical staff
- Number of long-term higher education training programmes
- Number of persons employed by RI (FTE)
- Number of continuously employed scientists (local site and entire RI)
- Number and duration of (non-scientific) internships
- Number and duration of (non-scientific) trainees
- Number of administrative/ research management staff
- Number of training measures, by type of users
- Number of higher education students trained within RI
Outcome
- Career advances through technical qualification
- First and second level citations for publications
- Career advances through administrative qualification
- Academic career advances: promotions within RI or after leaving
- Grants for trainees to follow RI trainings
- Satisfaction of people trained
- Prizes won by researchers having worked at RI
Impact
- Improvement of HRST (C) in region/country (Technical/Managerial)
- Improved job opportunities in the region/nation
- Improvement of HRST (C) in region/country (Scientific)
Activity
- Number of patents filed
- Number of non-patented technologies developed
Outcome
- Number of non-patented technologies licensed
- Number of patents licensed
Impact
- Technological impact: Number of new technologies and designs
Outcome
- Uptake of new topics proposed by RI as funding sections
- Success rate of follow up funding applications at project level
- Success rate of funding grants from national/supra-national sources
- Uptake of RI input in political discussions
- Uptake of RI input in committee discussions
Impact
- Notable changes in relevant regulations
- Notable changes in funding decisions