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Independent research | Social sciences Det Frie Forskningsråd | Samfund og Erhverv FSE

Independent research | Social sciences Det Frie Forskningsråd | Samfund og Erhverv FSE. Professor, mag. scient. soc. Lisbeth B. Knudsen Department of Sociology, Social work and Organization, Aalborg University email: lbk@socsci.aau.dk Ørestad, 9th November 2010.

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Independent research | Social sciences Det Frie Forskningsråd | Samfund og Erhverv FSE

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  1. Independent research | Social sciencesDetFrieForskningsråd | SamfundogErhverv FSE Professor, mag. scient. soc. Lisbeth B. Knudsen Department of Sociology, Social work and Organization, Aalborg University email: lbk@socsci.aau.dk Ørestad, 9th November 2010

  2. The Danish research financing system Independent Research Council Strategic Research Council Tak til Lars Christensen, FI

  3. Independent Research (DFF) • Funds for research • Finance Act funding • The Board distribute means for independent research among the five specialist research councils (faglige forskningsråd) • Up to one fifth can be distributed for specific initiatives, eg. joint council-initiatives • Political prioritized instruments (programmes) on the Finance Act

  4. 13,8 mill EURO amount for research grants 2010 Tak til Lars Christensen, FI

  5. FSE’sarea • Main disciplines: economics, sociology, political science and law and the social science perspectives in some cross-disciplinary themes (e.g., developing countries, gender research, culturalgeography • Projects should be of benefit for Danish Research • Applicants must normally have ph.d.-degreeorbe at least at similarlevel. • 15 -> 12 members

  6. TwoCallseachyear • Primo March and primo September • Changes – • SapereAude, more elite researcher • Post doc + extramoney • Young research leaders + extramoney • Increasinguse of ’externalreviewers’; individual and in panels (a reason for the decrease in number of members !)

  7. Evaluation of applications • Forbehandler – ‘primary evaluator’ • Sections (economics, sociology and political science/law) • Joint evaluation in the council • Rejection • Specific reasons and contact person

  8. Members of the council ? ? ? New rules – new members per January 1st 2011 Follow the information on: http://en.fi.dk/

  9. Criteria for evaluation • Coherence between the requests related to the content of the project description, the evaluation criteria, reasons for rejection, reductions and grants • More transparent • Total evaluation, list of criteria

  10. Number of applications? • There is a very strong competition: • FSE received in March 2010 a total of 135 applications (senior), amounting to app. 463 mio. Dcr., of which more than 350 mio were collective projetcs • 12 collective projects got funded • Of 88 applications for post doc, 11 were funded • Generally appr. 16 % succes rate

  11. About the collectiveprojects • The projects should be • carried out by a group of researchers • have a clear and delimited formulation of the research problem and • be thematic with synergy between the subprojects. => The post doc project has to be welldefined with specific scientific content

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