Evaluation of the quality of scientific activity | Gdańsk University of Technology

The evaluation is related to the quality of scientific activity which is carried out within certain scientific fields at the university. On the basis of acquired results from scientific fields, will be granted scientific categories: A+, A, B+, B or C by considering individual achievements of university employees from a given field, the rights to run studies at the university, doctoral schools (the achievements of ones educated at schools) award degrees and titles. All mentioned facets impact evaluation categories. They determine the amount of subsidies, i.e. financial means which scientific entities receive from the state budget. The evaluation regulation is therefore crucial in the entire system of reformed higher education and science by the ministry.

Evaluation of the quality of scientific activity according to the new rules will be conducted for the first time in 2022. It will cover the period from 2017 to 2021. The achievements of the first two years were thus created in a different, no longer applicable legal state.

The evaluation will be carried out within scientific disciplines at technical university and not faculties (organisational units) - as it was before. This is the key assumption of the new model of evaluation of the quality of scientific activity. Furthermore, the evaluation of scientific staff’s achievements involves only the four best ones.

The evaluation will be carried out according to three criteria

1. Criterion I - scientific or artistic level of conducted scientific activity

The evaluation of the scientific level refers to scientific articles (both those from the ministerial list and from outside the list), monographs, monographs editorials and authorship of chapters in monographs (both those from the ministerial list and from outside the list), as well as granted patents for inventions.

2. Criterion II - financial effects of research and development works

Financial effects are assessed on the basis of the amount of resources obtained for research projects within competitions organised by EU and foreign institutions, NCBR, NCN and NPRH. This criterion will also take into account the commercialization of research results or development works, as well as scientific works commissioned by entities from outside the higher education and science sector.

3. Criterion III - impact of scientific activity on the functioning of society and economy

The evaluation of the impact of scientific activity on the functioning of society and economy is performed on the basis of descriptions proving the relationship between research and the functioning of administration, health care, culture, etc. In the assessment of this criterion, so-called case studies are taken into account, which allow for a reliable measurement and assessment of the impact.

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