Learning and coming together for the Evaluation by the Johannes Rau Research Foundation

Together with 15 fellow research institutes in North Rhine-Westphalia, IDOS is part of the Johannes Rau Research Foundation (JRF). Every seven years, each institute has the chance to present and advance its own work through an independent evaluation process. As part of the evaluation, IDOS prepared and submitted a report for the commission of evaluators.  

Centrepiece of the evaluation was the on-site-visit of the evaluators on 30 and 31 October. During one and a half days, IDOS got the opportunity to present and discuss our research, policy advice, and training activities directed towards a collaborative multipolar world for sustainable futures. This included presentations, a market place, and poster sessions with employees from all levels and across the different departments and service units at the institute. As we eagerly await the recommendations, we can already say for sure that the evaluation presented a great chance for our institute to come together in celebration, reflection, and advancement of our work and we will draw on this very fruitful process and the material created and collected in the years to come.  

We would like to express our great thanks to the commission of evaluators, Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Dr.h.c.mult. Harald Kainz (TU Graz, Chair), Prof. Petra Danneker (University of Vienna), Melanie Hauenstein (Director Germany Representation Office UNDP), Matthias Mogge (Secretary General and Chairman of the Board, Welthungerhilfe) and Prof. Peter Taylor (Director of Research, Institute of Development Studies (IDS)), for taking such a significant part of your valuable time to so thoughtfully engage with our institute. We thank as well the representatives of JRF and AQ Austria, as the independent implementation organisation, for preparing and conducting the evaluation, and our shareholders for joining parts of the evaluation visit as guests. Our final and heartfelt thanks go to everyone at the institute involved with the evaluation, for your expertise and dedication given to this process, which stands exemplary for your everyday work for sustainable futures.