The mid-term and end evaluations are specific events in the course of the life time of a CRC where a round-up is made of the status and the realisation of the objectives is evaluated: Although this status evaluation can provide useful information to optimize the CRC, it’s not useful to steer the ‘daily’ operations of a CRC. For this continuous steering a more agile monitoring system is required.

Example of content of monitoring system (Kplus, FFG, Austria)

Financial data

• % public funding
• % self financing (and sources)
• Overhead costs

Organization issues (and changes hereto)

• Project Partners (Segmentation: Industry/University sectors, national/foreign)
• Non project partners
• Cooperation in (inter)national funded programmes

Scientific output and performance

• External scientific reports
• No and Quality of publications
• No of Masters and PhDs
• No of Awards
• No of Patents

Technology transfer activities

• Spin-offs from CRC
• Personal exchange with industry
• No of prototypes
• No of implementations of use in production processes
• Communication activities, Seminars with company involvement
• Joint publications with industry
• Increase private R&D-spending

Human Capital

• No and profile of CRC scientific staff
• No Liasons with industry
• No Joint participation in scientific fora and in-kind contributions
• Internal training