NWB2023_20 years of performance-based research funding in Flanders, Belgium

In 2003 the Flemish Government introduced performance-based research funding for universities in Flanders (Debackere & Glänzel, 2004; Engels & Guns, 2018; Luwel, 2021). Every five years the government procures a consulting team and panels of international experts to evaluate the effects and the effectiveness of these research and innovation subsidies to the universities. During the workshop we will share and discuss our observations regarding the gradual changes of the Flemish PRFSs since 2003, the possible effects of these PRFSs (including on support offices at universities), and the feasibility in terms of complexity of data collection, curation, transparency and validation.

References

Debackere, K., & Glänzel, W. (2004). Using a bibliometric approach to support research policy making: The case of the Flemish BOF-key. Scientometrics, 59(2), 253–276.

Engels, T. C. E., & Guns, R. (2018). The Flemish performance-based research funding system: A unique variant of the Norwegian model. Journal of Data and Information Science, 3(4), 45–60. https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2018-0020

Luwel, M. (2021). Performance-based Institutional Research Funding in Flanders, Belgium. Scholarly Assessment Reports, 3(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.29024/sar.29