1. Evaluation of multidisciplinary research and transinstitutional cooperation
OECD and BMBF Workshop on the Evaluation of Publicly Funded Research, Berlin, September 2005
Janne Hukkinen

2. Aim of workshop session
How can evaluation best contribute to the steering and funding of the science system?
Focus on multidisciplinary research and transinstitutional cooperation

3. Relevant concepts
Multidisciplinarity: juxtaposition of different disciplines
Interdisciplinarity: integration of different disciplines
Transdisciplinarity: crossing the boundary between science and society

4. Background study
Bruun, H., J. Hukkinen, K. Huutoniemi, J. Thompson Klein (2005). Promoting Interdisciplinary Research: The Case of the Academy of Finland. Academy of Finland Publication Series 8/05. Helsinki: Academy of Finland

5. Observations
Interdisciplinarity is commonplace and customary in the generation of new knowledge today
Therefore the issue is not so much one of reorganizing funding agencies
Instead focus on processes and procedures of assessment
criteria of assessment
application, reviewing, and reporting format
funding mechanisms
organizational coordination and among funding systems
monitoring, evaluation, and research of interdisciplinarity

6. Three presentations
Bridging the gap between evaluation and policy (Pichler and Hein)
Developing frameworks for interdisciplinary and cross-institutional evaluation (Flattau and Lal, with introductory remarks by Lightfoot)
Lowering the barriers to public-private partnerships in science and technology (Arnold)