Quality assurance of research

One of the most prominent ambitions that the University of Groningen will try to realise in the next few years is to achieve European and global recognition. According to some recent comparisons*, the RUG is already one of the Top 25 universities in Europe. Our aim is to achieve a place in the Top 10.

 

Thus the core of the RUG quality assurance policy is based on significantly stronger incentives for maintaining excellence and improving the quality of our research than previously. Targeted financial support is designed to give excellent researchers and young, outstanding research talent more space to develop further.

 

It is thus vitally important to be able to identify talent, including its various manifestations, in order to be able to indicate where the strong and less strong points are within research in Groningen. The quality assurance of research at the University of Groningen will thus play an essential role in our quality policy.

 

 Protocol Quality Assurance of Research, University of Groningen (in Dutch) [PDF]

  

RUG responsible for assessing its own research

In 2003, the way that academic research in the Netherlands was assessed changed radically. Previously, research assessments were conducted once every five years nationally and per discipline, and were organized by the Association of Dutch Universities (VSNU). In the new system the responsibility for assessing research lies with the institutions themselves. In relation to our situation, this means that the Board of the University of Groningen is responsible for organizing adequate, thorough, independent assessments of all research conducted at Groningen.

 

 Standard Evaluation Protocol 2009 – 2015 [PDF]

  

* Incl. the Third European Report on Science & Technology Indicators 2003, European Commission, March 2003