Evaluation Committee SÖF

The evaluation committee aims at ensuring the quality of the programme by checking both the funding instruments (infrastructure funding, project funding and funding of junior scientists) and the accompanying measures (until spring 2005). The evaluation results will influence the future shape of the calls and the funding instruments as well as the updating of the conceptual framework of the research programme.

In order to keep up with recent developments the funding programme SÖF is evaluated regularly on the basis of the projects´own results, social events and scientific research beyond BMBF funding.

The evaluation committee aims at ensuring the quality of the programme by checking both the funding instruments (infrastructure funding, project funding and funding of junior scientists) and the accompanying measures (until spring 2005). The evaluation results will influence the future shape of the calls and the funding instruments as well as the updating of the conceptual framework of the research programme.

The evaluation is carried out by a group of independent experts who examine and evaluate the individual research areas. The group is coordinated by EvaConsult.

The members of the committee are as follows:

Dr.-Ing. Herbert Gassert

Dr. Rudolf Häberli

Prof. Dr. Bernd Hansjürgens
(UFZ-Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle GmbH, division economy, sociology and law)

Prof. Dr. Reinhard F. Hüttl (Chairman)
(Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, Chair of soil protection and recultivation)

Christine von Weizsäcker

Coordination:
Dr. Dagmar Simon
Dr. Andreas Stucke
(EvaConsult)