Final Project Report Survey

In the final project reports, the FWF asks the project leaders for feedback on their cooperation with the FWF during the various project phases.

This feedback covers four main categories and 13 subcategories:

  • Application guidelines: Document length – Clarity – Intelligibility
  • Decision-making process: Advice & Support – Duration – Transparency
  • Project support: Availability – Level of detail – Intelligibility – Financial transactions
  • Reporting: Effort – Transparency – Support in PR & exploitation

The evaluation is based on the following scale: 2 (very satisfactory), 1 (satisfactory), 0 (appropriate), -1 (unsatisfactory), and -2 (very unsatisfactory).

For the period from 2013-2022, we received feedback from a total of 4.628 final project reports, the average results of the longitudinal evaluation according to the four main categories are as follows:

Application guidelines

Graphical representation of the annual average of the scores of the application guidelines
Annual average of the scores of the application guidelines

Decision-making process

Graphical representation of the annual average of the scores for the decision-making process
Annual average of the scores for the decision-making process

Project support

Graphical representation of the annual average of the scores for the project support
Annual average of the scores for the project support

Reporting

Graphical representation of the annual average of the scores for the reporting
Annual average of the scores for the reporting

The evaluation of the feedback refers to researchers who were successful in receiving funding from the FWF for their research project.

In the summer of 2012, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) commissioned the Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance (iFQ) to carry out a survey of academic staff at universities and non-university research institutes in Austria. In detail, the focus was on application behaviour; application success; the level of awareness of funding institutions, in particular, familiarity with the FWF and its funding provision (funding); and the academics’ and researchers’ opinions of the FWF’s aims and principles and its selection procedures.

 

Inquiries and contact

Mag. Martina Kunzmann
martina.kunzmann(at)fwf.ac.at
+43 676 834 87 8608