1. Infrastructure Grants
Related Issues
ISB meeting
February 25, 2016
Nino Gachechiladze
Deputy Head of Grants and Programs Administration, Evaluation and Analysis Department

2. SRNSF research infrastructural grants evaluation
Task force including local and international experts
Survey of grantees (InfG, STCU, GRDF)
Analyzing collected data for infrastructural
mapping of SRNSF IGs

3. Performed activities for evaluation SRNSF research infrastructural grants:
Revising
Call terms
Application forms
Eligibility criteria
Evaluation criteria

4. Performed activities for evaluation SRNSF research infrastructural grants:
Completed list of SRNSF grants related equipment purchase,
The questionnaire for grantees has been developed in cooperation
with SRNSF and NSF experts
Analysis based on first data is performed
Major principles for revision of
equipment grant is defined

5. Analysis milestones
scientific/research equipment current residence (mapping),
equipment’s loading,
equipment’s current condition
scientific productivity result
equipment’s usage for educational needs
wider usage possibility
equipment’s maintenance process (if any)

6. Collected data: Equipment grant beneficiaries – 10 Institutions
Infrastructural grant analysis
Collected data:
Equipment grant beneficiaries – 10 Institutions

7. Infrastructural grant analysis
Questionaries' sent to 32 grantees
Returned filled up questionaries’ – 15
Published articles used purchased equipment – 11
Young researchers trainings on certain equipment performed – 15
შემოსული მონაცემების მიხედვით 15/32 ინდექსი პროდუქტიულობის

8. Geography of equipment
Infrastructural grant analysis
Geography of equipment

9. Plan for future activities
To send the list, forms and reports to experts after collecting and analyzing responses
To implement site visits
To create the interactive map, open
for scientific community
To approve the revised call terms

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