Stefan de Jong

On 30 April Belgian ENRESSH members organised a national ENRESSH day to exchange knowledge on evaluation and impact of the social sciences and humanities with stakeholders. ENRESSH collaborated with the University of Saint Louis-Bruxelles, the University of Antwerp, the Ministry of Wallonia-Brussels Federation and hub.brussels in delivering this day.

The day was a huge succes. About 60 participants from a variety of professional backgrounds participated – policy makers, research evaluators, academic researchers and representatives of funding agencies, the rectors’ conference as well as the European University Association and the Young European Research Universities. Many of them expressed their positive opinion about the day. The programme and presentations give an impression of the Belgian ENRESSH day can be found here.

ENRESSH is one of the founding signatories of the Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication. Policy-makers, leaders, universities, research institutions, research funders, libraries, and researchers are invited to sign the Helsinki Initiative to promote multilingualism in scholarly communication.

ENRESSH supports the Helsinki Initiative with its statement ‘Balanced Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication’, which is available in multiple languages over here.

ENRESSH launches its working paper series. The first working paper,  “Impact evaluation in Norway and in the UK- A comparative study, based on REF 2014 and Humeval 2015-2017”, is by Marta Wróblewska

Michael Ochsner and Corina Balaban were invited to present the work of ENRESSH during a workshop of the international Knowscience project. Knowscience ‘focuses on understanding the interplay between policy instruments intended to govern higher education and research and the informal rules and processes that have developed for ensuring the quality of the knowledge they produce’.  Michael delivered his keynote speech ‘National Research Evaluation Systems, Research Quality and the SSH’. Corina gave a presentation on motivations of early career SSH researchers to engage in ‘impactful’ research.

During the 4th Management Committee Meeting in Podgorica (8th March, 2019), ten members received the ENRESSH Fellow Status for their substantive contribution to the progress of activities within the network.

These ENRESSH Fellows are:

• Marta Wróblewska
• Karolina Lendák-Kabók
• Rita Faria
• Agnė Girkontaitė
• Reetta Muhonen
• Jorge Mañana-Rodríguez
• Dragan Ivanović
• Linda Sīle
• Marc Vanholsbeeck
• Antun Plenković

More information about the status of ENRESSH fellow can be found here.

The minutes of the 4th Management Committee Meeting (Podgorica, March 8 2019) are now published here.

The presentations of the Podgorica meeting are now available here.

In January 2019, ENRESSH hosted a Training School on ‘Evaluation procedures and their impact on SSH careers’. The materials can be downloaded here.

ENRESSH Fellow

At the Brussels Steering Committee meeting of February 2019, the Steering Committee agreed to create a new designation within the ENRESSH Network, that of “Fellow of the ENRESSH Network”.  The purpose of this designation is to distinguish network participants who have made a substantive contribution to the progress of activities within the network without being part of the Steering Committee.  The Fellowship is only active for as long as the participant is active within the Network. Any network member may be nominated as a Fellow, either as a self-nomination or by a proposer (who is expected to seek the permission of the candidate).  Nominators should provide a brief justification of the proposal, indicating clearly how the proposed candidate has made a substantive contribution to the work of the ENRESSH Network.  Proposed candidates will be scrutinised by the Steering Committee and the award will be conferred after the decision by the Steering Committee.The names and profiles of Fellows will be publicised on the website and new awards will be reported at the annual management meeting.

A fellowship will be awarded to any nominated ENRESSH member who has made an evident and substantive contribution to the work of the ENRESSH Network, regardless age, career stage, and employment status.  Evidence that might suggest a substantivecontribution would typically include (although might not be limited to) involvement in a number of these activities.

• Having attended and given presentations to one or more ENRESSH WG meetings
• Having participated in an STSM
• Having contributed to research activities by completing a questionnaire, fiche, country profile etc.
• Having contributed actively to training activities in an ENRESSH Training School
• Having recruited or identified potential new participants or research subjects for ENRESSH activities
• Having given a presentation at an ENRESSH-affiliated session at a RESSH conference or international conferences
• Having given a presentation to a third party as a representative or participant of ENRESSH
• Having published an article in the ENRESSH Working Paper series
• Having published a paper which acknowledges ENRESSH
• Having contributed to a writing group producing policy briefs, newsletter or other community material.

Overview of ENRESSH Fellows

During the Management Committee meeting in Podgorica (7th-8th March, 2019), the following ten members received the status of ENRESSH Fellow:

• Marta Wróblewska
• Karolina Lendák-Kabók
• Rita Faria
• Agnė Girkontaitė
• Reetta Muhonen
• Jorge Mañana-Rodríguez
• Dragan Ivanović
• Linda Sīle
• Marc Vanholsbeeck
• Antun Plenković

‘Guidelines on how to successfully design, and implement, mission-oriented research programmes‘ published. The guidelines originate in the ‘Impacts of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) for a European Research Agenda – Valuation of SSH in Mission-Oriented Research’ (Vienna, November 2019) and aim to optimise the position of the SSH in Horizon Europe.