Evaluation of Norwegian climate research

The aim of the evaluation is to provide a critical review of Norwegian climate research in an international perspective, and to give recommendations on measures to enhance the quality, efficiency and relevance of the future climate research.

The Research Council’s strategy and recommendations regarding the future focus of climate research must be based on sound knowledge of the existing research framework. The evaluation outcome will provide a good basis for determining how to allocate research funding, and for offering guidance on research-related issues within the Research Council itself, to the research institutions, and to the authorities.

The evaluation committee
The evaluation committee is headed by Professor Emeritus Thomas Rosswall. The other eight members are:

Gordon McBean, Professor, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Bob Dickson, Professor Emeritus, CEFAS Lowestoft Laboratory, England
Eigil Friis-Christensen, Professor, National Space Institute, Denmark
Sanna Sorvari, Ph.D., University of Helsinki, Finland
Harold Mooney, Professor, Stanford University, USA
Katarina Eckerberg, Professor, Umeå University, Sweden
Joyeeta Gupta, Professor, Vrije University, The Netherlands
Michelle Colley, Risk Manager, Acclimatise North America, USA

The secretariat for the committee is located at the Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU) and is headed by Senior Researcher Antje Klitkou.

Input from the research communities
A formal invitation to participate in the evaluation has been sent to the research communities, in which they were asked to complete a form with information about their size, sources of funding and thematic focus, among other things. The submission deadline was late September.
The information provided was then used as the basis for inviting a selection of the research communities to participate in an in-depth evaluation. During this phase they complete an internal evaluation. Submission deadline was mid-November. In December they will take part in consultative meetings with the evaluation committee.

Tentative dates
Statutory meeting in Oslo, 23.-24. August 2011
Fact sheets, September 2011
Self Assesment, November 2011
Hearings with the departments/institutes, Oslo, December 2011
Meeting, February 2012
Meeting in Oslo, March 13.-14. 2012
Division Steering Board, June 15. 2012