News, 2011-06-13
ESF publishes European Peer Review Guide for funding research
In april the first international guidelines for peer reviewing research grants was published by the European Science Foundation (ESF). The European Peer Review Guide outlines principles for the safeguarding of fairness and credibility in peer review as agreed by Europe´s major research funders.
Even if the conditions for research funding in ESF member countries are different, all face the same challenge - to assess the quality and potential of their research applications. The guide gives a number of good examples of how peer review can be used, for example regarding quality assurance and methodology. ESF's hope is that this is the first step towards a common European approach to peer review.
European Peer Review Guide
Jonas Björck, Director of Department of research funding
The guide is aimed primarily at funding agencies and others involved in peer review.
Coordinated by the ESF, the Guide is the product of a joint effort between more than 30 national funding and performing organisations from 23 countries, including the Swedish Research Council.
Read the guide
European Peer Review Guide
Contact
Jonas Björck, Director of Department of research funding
Contact: webbredaktör
Updated: 2011-09-15
What is peer review?
When we are scrutinising research applications, peer-group assessment is used. This means that evaluation is carried out by the researchers´ colleagues. Every year a large number of Swedish and foreign researchers - all specialists within their fields - participate in the evaluation procedure in order to carry out as impartial assessment as possible.
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When we are scrutinising research applications, peer-group assessment is used. This means that evaluation is carried out by the researchers´ colleagues. Every year a large number of Swedish and foreign researchers - all specialists within their fields - participate in the evaluation procedure in order to carry out as impartial assessment as possible.
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