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Evaluations of funding programmes
Evaluations of funding programmes are assigned by default to independent and proven experts based on 
transparent selection procedures and defined criteria. They follow the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) rules 
on the quality and transparency of evaluations, studies and research policy services as well as the stan-
dards of the Austrian Platform for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation (fteval) for this process. 
Evaluations are scheduled at appropriate intervals after the programmes have started and are done for the 
duration of these (5-10 years). The following programmes have been evaluated in recent years:
• Meyer, N. and Bührer, S. (2014): Erwin Schrödinger Fellowships;
• Ecker, B., Kottmann, A., Meyer, S. and Brandl, B. (2014): Doctoral Programmes;
• Seus, S., Heckl, E. und Bührer, S. (2016): START Programme and Wittgenstein Award;
• Degelsegger-Marquéz, A., Wagner, I., Kroop, S. et al. (2017): International programmes;
• Currently not yet published: Specific research areas;
• Currently open for tender: Programme for Advancement and Appreciation of the Arts (2021);
• Scheduled: Clinical research (2023).
124 See Neufeld, J. (2014).
125 See SPECTRA (2002).

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Impact analysis
The programme evaluations (see above) are central impact analyses. In addition to these, higher-level 
comprehensive impact analyses are carried out by international institutions approximately every ten years. 
The last analysis was the “Bibliometric Study of FWF Austrian Science Fund” in 2012
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An international study “International differences in basic research grant funding – a systematic compari-
son” was carried out in 2019 in which the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) was evaluated as one of seven 
funding organisations
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