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Common Impact Assessment for Optimising the Policy Mix

8th December 2010
09:00 AM till 04:00 PM
Belgian Science Policy Office - The Platinum Building
Louizalaan 231 Avenue Louise - 1050 Brussels

Launched in March 2009, CIA4OPM, brings together a network of 15 partners from 11 countries around Europe (a mix of ERA countries) with the goal of exchanging information and mutual learning with respect to the assessment of (socio-) economic impacts of public funding (policies and instruments) of RTDI. The project focuses at public funding for RTDI in three policy areas in particular: (i) enhancement of private R&D investment; (ii) improved cooperation between public research institutes and private enterprises; and (iii) improved performance-based funding of universities.

The main goal of the project is improved RTDI policy making and the project intends to contribute to two needs in IA that have not been covered before in a systematic manner by other projects:

  1. Increasing awareness amongst stakeholders for the need of a common methodology for IA aimed at evidence-based policy improvement;
  2. Establishing a framework facilitating communication between policy makers and different stakeholders in the policy making process.

The aim of the conference is an in-depth discussion of the preliminary outcomes of the CIA4OPM project with a broad audience of experts in impact assessment and policy makers/practitioners involved in impact assessment. The conference will be related to the CREST meeting (9 -10/12/2010) and CREST-delegates will be invited to the conference.

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