Evaluation and benchmarking
While the European Research and Higher Education Area is emerging, evaluation practices and policies are still very much linked to national traditions and institutional frameworks. ALLEA has been promoting in the past discussions about the necessity to engage at a European level also in terms of quality assurance and evaluation; the ALLEA Working Group Evaluation is producing European protocols for institutional evaluations and tackles the issues of university rankings.
Activities
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ALLEA publications and documents
1. Evaluating for Science: Processes and Protocols (H. Hackmann et al.), 2004. 
2. Standard Evaluation Protocol 2003-2009 for Public Research Organisations, 2004.
3. The Limits of Science and the Limitations of Knowledge (J. Mittelstrass), 2002.
4. Science, Pseudo-science and Traditional Knowledge (D. Follesdal), 2002.
5. Intellectual Property Rights in the Academic and Research Environment (R. Elliott), 2002.
6. The Impact of Information Systems on the Quality of Life in Terms of Privacy (P. Tabatoni), 2002.
7. Quality without Quantity (J. Engelbrecht), 2002.
8. Will / May Quality suffer from Moral Demands? (G. Toulouse et al), 2002.
9. Quality Assessment; a Challenging Task for Academies of Sciences (P.J.D. Drenth), 2002.
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