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of which federal funds from NFTE
5,060 
6,362
Total organisation costs in relation to the total 
funding budget
1
5.51%
5.98%
1 By internal definition and as reflected in the annual report, the organisation costs include the production costs for in-
tangible investments (e.g. development of new funding processing software) in the full amount as incurred in the year 
of procurement/programming. Under tax law, however, these are capitalised only after the software is put into use and 
depreciated over the period of use. Other funding providers represent the annual depreciation costs in their organisa-
tion costs, which complicates comparisons.
Source: CDG. Note: Budgetary data for 2019 corresponds to the maximum budgetary framework since 
accounting data are not yet available. Organisation costs for 2019 based on preliminary actual values 
(data from 01/2020) and including intangible investments.
 
Indicator 2: Quality assurance and evaluations 
Surveys of (potential) applicants and funded projects 
Surveys of the funded CD Laboratories/JR Centres are conducted roughly every five years in the frame-
work of the programme evaluations. The last programme evaluation took place in 2016.

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Evaluations of the programmes and the portfolio
• Alt, R., Berrer, H., Borrmann, J., Brunner, Ph., Dolle, B., Helmenstein, C., Jöchle, J., Pirker, J., Pohl, P., Pop-
ko, J., Schmidl M. and Schneider H. (2017): Combined programme evaluation of the Christian Doppler 
Laboratories and Josef Ressel Centres 2016, commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Science, Re-
search and Economy (BMWFW)
Impact analysis
Impact analyses are conducted within the framework of the programme evaluations roughly every five 
years (see above).