1. IIASA Institutional Review
Coherence & integration across themes, programs and initiatives: How we do it in practice ?
Professor Dr. Pavel Kabat
IIASA Director General and
Chief Executive Officer
IIASA Institutional Review
8 May 2017

2. SUMMARY 1 IIASA Strategic Plan 2011-2020
To create a more focused research agenda
To increase collaboration and integration across IIASA research programs
To maintain its worldwide leadership in applied systems analysis.
To achieve a clear identity and higher visibility
To demonstrate its value to the current and future member organizations
To attract research funding and talent to resource the strategic plan.

3. SUMMARY 2 Mechanisms and Incentives
Retreats and discussions at researcher and research management level within IIASA, and with external stakeholders including NMOs and SAC to develop substantive concepts for more integrative research activities
New integrative research projects (cross-cutting, futures initiatives, and large-scale integrated projects)
Systems Analysis Forum facilitates and catalyzes methodological advances needed for innovating the interdisciplinary and integrated perspectives lying at the core of the IIASA research agenda.
Allocation of funds to programs via indirect allocations specifically for projects that stimulate institutional collaboration and innovative research.
In 2015, IIASA invested approximately 20% of the Institute’s internal funds to these projects, with this projected to increase to approximately 40% over the next five years.

4. OVERVIEW & TIMELINE IIASA Strategic Plan 2011-2020
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
IIASA Strategic Plan
To create a more focused research agenda
To increase collaboration and integration across IIASA research programs
To maintain its worldwide leadership in applied systems analysis.

5. OVERVIEW & TIMELINE IIASA Research Plan 2011-2015
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
IIASA Research Plan
Introduced a new research framework
Reporting and evaluations made within framework 2011 to 2015
IIASA HIGHLIGHTS

6. OVERVIEW & TIMELINE Cross-cutting research projects (1st generation)
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
Cross-cutting research projects (1st generation)
Jan 2013: Call for proposals (both applied and methodology-focused, cutting-edge research, institutional collaboration, internal core funding, maximum 3+2 year duration dependent on evaluation of progress
Nov 2013: Four projects selected and budget allocated:
Equitable governance of common goods
Socio-economic heterogeneity
Systemic risk & network dynamics
Unconventional and shale gas
Regularly reviewed by SAC, and a final rigorous external evaluation

7. A world leader in applied systems analysis: Systems Analysis Forum
Regular conferences to attract world leaders in systems-analysis methodology to discuss challenges and opportunities in the context of IIASA research
First conference: Systems Analysis 2015
Internally funded calls for proposals for exploratory, methodologically oriented, small-scale projects (~50KEuro, max. 1 year duration)
2016 Call: Eight projects funded
2013 Call: Five projects funded
Presentations and research stays at IIASA by leading experts and methodological innovators from around the world
Workshops and schools on systems-analysis methods, models, and tools
Partnership with the Complexity Science Hub Vienna

8. OVERVIEW & TIMELINE Systems Analysis Forum projects (1st generation)
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
Systems Analysis Forum projects (1st generation)
2013: Call for proposals, 13 proposals submitted and 5 funded:
Development of robust rescaling methods for integrated water, food, energy security management under uncertainty
A maximum likelihood analysis of a stochastic agent-based model of the global energy system
Reconsidering models of catastrophic risk
Analysis of close-to-optimal zones in LP decision-support models
Systematic misperceptions of systemic risk
Reviewed by SAC

9. OVERVIEW & TIMELINE IIASA Futures Initiatives
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
IIASA Futures Initiatives
2014: Established following scoping discussions internally, with NMOs and external stakeholders, maximizing value and relevance for multiple IIASA member countries in a geo-politically/geo-economically sensitive/important region and/or topic, where system analytical and integrated (IIASA) approach is needed
“seeding internal money” type of projects, max. duration 3 years, may/should lead to externally funded “Large Scale Integrated Projects)
Arctic Futures Initiative
Eurasian Economic Integration
Tropical Futures Initiative
Water Futures and Solutions Initiative
Regularly reported on by Annual Report and DG report to Council
Future expansion depends on ability to attract significant external support (funding and political)

10. OVERVIEW & TIMELINE IIASA Research Plan 2016-2020
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
IIASA Research Plan
New research framework to take an even more holistic systems analytic approach and focus on interlinkages between complex diverse systems in order to identify systems solutions for sustainability transformations.

11. OVERVIEW & TIMELINE Systems Analysis Forum projects (2nd generation)
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
Systems Analysis Forum projects (2nd generation)
2016: Call for proposals, 28 proposals submitted and 8 funded:
Economic Migration, Capital Flows, and Welfare
FRED - Freedom, Emergence and Dimensions
Navigating the Pareto front: Understanding economic environmental tradeoffs under value diversity among stakeholders
A big-data approach to systemic risk in very large financial networks
Simulation Games as New Methods for Understanding Stakeholder Interaction and Decision-Making in Complex Systems
Accounting for behavioral spillovers in the global adoption of sustainable technologies and lifestyles: toward next-generation scenario modeling
Systems thinking for transformation– A scoping and prototyping project
To be reviewed by SAC (June 2017)

12. Large-Scale Integrated Projects supporting global transformations
OVERVIEW & TIMELINE
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
Large-Scale Integrated Projects supporting global transformations
2016: Established following scoping discussions internally, with SAC and external stakeholders
TWI2050 (attracted over 60 institutions)
IS-WEL (external funding: €4.6 million)

13. OVERVIEW & TIMELINE Cross-cutting research projects (2nd generation)
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
Cross-cutting research projects (2nd generation)
2016 projects:
Nexus ++
New Generation of Dynamic Vegetation Models
Regularly reviewed by SAC, and a final rigorous external evaluation

14. How IIASA activities fit together
Core
Research
Administration, Infrastructure & Services

15. How IIASA activities fit together
Core
Research
Administration, Infrastructure & Services
New Methodologies in Systems Approaches

16. How IIASA activities fit together
Core
Research
Administration, Infrastructure & Services
New Methodologies in Systems Approaches
Exploratory Futures Initiatives

17. How IIASA activities fit together
Core
Research
Cross-cutting
Administration, Infrastructure & Services
New Methodologies in Systems Approaches
Exploratory Futures Initiatives

18. How IIASA activities fit together
Core
Research
Cross-cutting
Capacity Development
and Training
Administration, Infrastructure & Services
New Methodologies in Systems Approaches
Exploratory Futures Initiatives

19. How IIASA activities fit together
Core
Research
Cross-cutting
Capacity Development
and Training
Science to Policy
Administration, Infrastructure & Services
New Methodologies in Systems Approaches
Exploratory Futures Initiatives

20. How IIASA activities fit together
Core
Research
Cross-cutting
Capacity Development
and Training
Science to Policy
Administration, Infrastructure & Services
Community Services
New Methodologies in Systems Approaches
Exploratory Futures Initiatives

21. How IIASA activities fit together
Core
Research
Cross-cutting
Capacity Development
and Training
Science to Policy
Administration, Infrastructure & Services
Community Services
Science Diplomacy
New Methodologies in Systems Approaches
Exploratory Futures Initiatives

22. How IIASA activities fit together
Core
Research
Cross-cutting
Capacity Development
and Training
Science to Policy
Administration, Infrastructure & Services
Community Services
Science Diplomacy
New Methodologies in Systems Approaches
Exploratory Futures Initiatives
Large-scale Integrated Projects Supporting Major Global Transformations

23. How IIASA activities fit together
Core
Research
Cross-cutting
Capacity Development
and Training
Science to Policy
Administration, Infrastructure & Services
Community Services
Science Diplomacy
New Methodologies in Systems Approaches
Exploratory Futures Initiatives
Large-scale Integrated Projects Supporting Major Global Transformations
Governance

24. IIASA Core Funding (from member countries/NMOs
Membership contributions have increased significantly over recent years (4.4 million Euro more in 2017 as compared to 2011)
Year
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016*
2017**
Membership Contributions
€ 8.8m
€ 9.0m
€ 9.5m
€ 11.3m
€ 11.8m
€ 12.4m
€ 13.2m
*2016 figures may still be subject to change pending the outcome of the ongoing financial audit
**2017 figures are budgeted

25. New mechanism and new management stimuli: increased core funding and revised internal funding allocations to facilitate “horizontal”, systems/integrated research, while maintaining and stimulating academic excellence and societal relevance
Program
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016*
% change
TNT
Direct (1)
€ 190k
€ 212k
€ 278k
€ 246k
€ 264k
€ 289k
52%
Indirect (2)
€ 66k
€ 158k
€ 145k
€ 220k
€ 194k
€ 318k
382%
Sum
€ 256k
€ 370k
€ 423k
€ 466k
€ 458k
€ 607k
137%
AIR
(formerly MAG)
Direct
€ 348k
€ 386k
€ 601k
€ 533k
€ 555k
€ 584k
68%
Indirect
€ 51k
€ 4k
€ 67k
€ 308k
€ 229k
€ 192k
276%
€ 399k
€ 390k
€ 668k
€ 841k
€ 784k
€ 776k
94%
ENE
€ 218k
€ 328k
€ 347k
€ 352k
61%
€ 112k
€ 169k
€ 222k
€ 274k
€ 239k
€ 444k
264%
€ 330k
€ 415k
€ 592k
€ 602k
€ 586k
€ 796k
141%
POP
€ 251k
€ 271k
€ 367k
€ 325k
€ 359k
€ 360k
43%
€ 115k
€ 130k
€ 106k
€ 209k
€ 131k
€ 184k
60%
€ 366k
€ 401k
€ 473k
€ 534k
€ 490k
€ 544k
49%
ESM
€ 604k
€ 724k
€ 642k
€ 774k
€ 949k
56%
€ 177k
€ 358k
€ 161k
€ 307k
€ 287k
€ 408k
131%
€ 962k
€ 885k
€ 1,061k
€ 1,357k
73%

26. Internal Funding Allocations
Program
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016*
% change
RISK
(formerly RPV)
Direct
€ 297k
€ 288k
€ 305k
€ 270k
€ 318k
€ 348k
17%
Indirect
€ 90k
€ 43k
€ 125k
€ 257k
€ 179k
€ 277k
208%
Sum
€ 387k
€ 331k
€ 430k
€ 527k
€ 497k
€ 625k
61%
EEP
€ 214k
€ 200k
€ 253k
€ 224k
€ 250k
€ 275k
29%
€ 68k
€ 122k
€ 67k
€ 226k
€ 180k
€ 233k
243%
€ 282k
€ 322k
€ 320k
€ 450k
€ 508k
80%
WAT
n.a.
€ 300k
€ 228k
€ 290k
45%
€ 7k
€ 9k
€ 46k
€ 31k
€ 130k
1,757%
€ 207k
€ 309k
€ 246k
€ 259k
€ 420k
103%
ASA
€ 328k
€ 368k
€ 293k
€ 274k
€ 295k
-10%
€ 99k
€ 109k
€ 196k
€ 517k
€ 381k
€ 458k
363%
€ 427k
€ 477k
€ 810k
€ 655k
€ 753k
76%

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