The Czech Research and Development Council is preparing a new methodology 2017+, which will include principles for the evaluation of research organizations. The methodology should be effective from 2017. The research results should be viewed with a greater emphasis on a quality and mission of research organizations.
The aim of the new methodology is to better allocate national money for research. It is necessary to transform a simple evaluation of scientific outputs into sophisticated evaluation of research organizations and their basic or applied research, or their cooperation with private companies. The new system should be introduced over the next three years, while in the first year, the quality of a limited number of scientific output will be evaluated. The organisations will choose the outputs that should be evaluated. Based on this assessment, research organizations will be divided into three categories. In the coming years, other criteria will be gradually added. The evaluation should be performed annually by 2020 and then at intervals of 4-5 years.
The methodology will be discussed with representatives of the research sector also, and it should be approved by the Czech government in December 2016.
In Slovakia, the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic plans to ensure a readjustment of evaluation system of higher education research using the experience of the British system RAE / REF and to apply this system into practice while the deadline for fulfillment of this task is set for December 31, 2016. The difference between the Slovak and the proposed UK (RAE) system lies in the fact that the Slovak system calculates the relevant part of the subsidy according to a formula, while the British system is based on peer review. The Slovak system is time and cost significantly less challenging, but it can be easily misused when comparing with the British system.
Currently, the two countries reprocess their evaluation systems in a line with the global trend of increasing the efficiency of science funding from public sources.
