Financing Science, Evaluation of Institutions, Career of Individuals Vladimír Ulman, Igor Peterlík, Jan Obdržálek FI MU DUVOD, September, 2015 Ulman, Peterlík, Obdržálek (FI MU) Finance, Evaluation, Career DUVOD, Autumn 2015 0 / 9 Course agenda Requirements to pass Present a paper review, we’ll announce later Submit the experiment report, Petr Holub will explain in his talk Up to one unjustified absence An absence is considered justified if you’re missing, e.g., due to a conference, some reasonable MU-related event, or illness. Should the illness span over two sessions, please provide a proof, a doctor’s report for instance. Ulman, Peterlík, Obdržálek (FI MU) Finance, Evaluation, Career DUVOD, Autumn 2015 1 / 9 Course agenda Plan LM, AN: Motivation to Study ;-) and Official Stuff Financing Science, Evaluation of Institutions, Career of Individuals IF, h-index, Electronic Information Sources Publishing Procedure in and Presentation at Conferences Publishing Procedure in Journals, Examples of Reviews PH: Doing Experiments Writing a Scientific Article I. Writing a Scientific Article II. PH: Feedback on Homeworks Business Trips and Procedures DS: Managing Undergraduate Students and Other Remarks Student Presentations Not neccesarily in this order. . . Ulman, Peterlík, Obdržálek (FI MU) Finance, Evaluation, Career DUVOD, Autumn 2015 2 / 9 Financing Science Money for organizations (=“institucionální podpora”) Not meant for teaching students but for doing science Government funding, across all scientific fields Recipients: universities, research institutes, etc Grants (=“úˇcelová podpora”) To support smaller working groups to meet their specific goals Recipients: research groups, individuals, e.g., post-docs Industry Private company decides whom to give money for what benefit Recipients: organizations or individuals Ulman, Peterlík, Obdržálek (FI MU) Finance, Evaluation, Career DUVOD, Autumn 2015 3 / 9 Financing Science Government provides the greatest deal of money Most of it goes directly to organizations, less via grant agencies Grant agencies govern annual competitions for money http://www.vyzkum.cz/FrontClanek.aspx?idsekce=609 Problems with direct financing: Need for a fair share of the budget Attempt to evaluate organizations and give money accordingly Research in different fields costs differently Rules change from year to year Ulman, Peterlík, Obdržálek (FI MU) Finance, Evaluation, Career DUVOD, Autumn 2015 4 / 9 Evaluating Science Government passes money directly to organization as a whole Organization needs to decide how to pass money further into its subunits Often, the evaluation results are re-used Evaluation is mainly focused on publication activity How institutions are evaluated, and results: http://www.vyzkum.cz/FrontClanek.aspx?idsekce=18748 Organizations must manage reports of their results (IS, RIV) Organizations tend to optimize In ˇCR: Evaluation happens every year based on RIV Ulman, Peterlík, Obdržálek (FI MU) Finance, Evaluation, Career DUVOD, Autumn 2015 5 / 9 Financing Science: Grants Fixed budget given for fixed period of time, for specified research tasks Researchers specify that in grant applications, and compete for money With grant you can improve your income, buy stuff you need, improve working environment, etc However, the acceptance ratio of grant proposals is usually low (<25%) Grants are often granted to individuals (SomoPro, ERC grants) or teams (GACR) https://www.fi.muni.cz/research/index.xhtml.cs European Union grants, EU H2020 (http://www.h2020.cz/), FP7 a VaVpI atd. Ulman, Peterlík, Obdržálek (FI MU) Finance, Evaluation, Career DUVOD, Autumn 2015 6 / 9 Financing Science: Grants With grant you are often obliged for certain acts, e.g.: Propagation of the grant agency Promotion of the results, availability of the results (SW licenses) Sustainability of the granted processed (e.g., DUVOD) Lots of administration and "proofs" (e.g., photos) Ulman, Peterlík, Obdržálek (FI MU) Finance, Evaluation, Career DUVOD, Autumn 2015 7 / 9 Financing Science: Grants Applications should... be submitted right on time (deadlines), be submitted to appropriate agency and panel, be formally okay (and good looking), be clearly formulated in terms of goals and actions to take, contain reasonably ambitious goals, take into account duties from the grant agency (e.g., promotion costs). Experience (and little bit of luck) is a big advantage Knowledge of evaluation processes is also a big advantage Ulman, Peterlík, Obdržálek (FI MU) Finance, Evaluation, Career DUVOD, Autumn 2015 8 / 9 Scientific Career It varies country from country, especially at later stages More or less standard progress is: 3–6 years PhD student cca 28 years old 3–6 years Post-Doc position cca 35 years old up to 8 years on tenure track / assistant professor cca 40 years old habilitation → associate professor after Post-Doc: look for your own lab some time later: become a full professor Ulman, Peterlík, Obdržálek (FI MU) Finance, Evaluation, Career DUVOD, Autumn 2015 9 / 9