Ref. Ares(2021)2801862 - 27/04/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE
COMPARED project
Closing meeting
04 December 2019
Minutes
Participants
NKFIH ; FECYT; Science Europe; ERCEA; DG RTD; DG JRC.
Aim of the meeting: demonstration of the platform and the new features, discussion on next steps
Comments
General positive comments on the tool and its usability
Marginality of the translation issue since the main language used for submission is English.
Suggestion to explor
e eTranslation
General agreement on the readiness of the tool to be tested by real evaluators to get
feedback
Compliance aspect of the GUI to the EC standards
Possible synergies with RTD project involving Member States on R&D funding data collection
+ project on text extraction using ‘max document frequency’ (max_df)
> meeting to be
organised
Similarity detection
Possible use of a dictionary of synonyms
Investigate other methods of detecting similarity - neural networks, Google Word2Vec
and in general already existing code
Possibility to index the full text of project reports or to show at least the link of matched
projects reports
Database
Possibility for funding agencies/end-users to add their own database to use as corpus of
reference without sharing obligations due to privacy/security concerns
To add metadata for the similar projects found in the database (budget, beneficiaries
etc..) to help understanding the context
Adding open source data
Use links and DOI for Patstat and Scopus, instead of indexing them
Users
Identified potential users: the reviewers of funding agencies in MS and of H2020; Project
Officers who relies on evaluators and might want to assign tasks to them
Potential opening of the tool to applicants in the future, pro and cons to be considered
Next Steps:
To get in contact with the funding agencies for the testing phase
To understand in which step of their workflow the tool can be used
To scale it up to MS:
o
European Research Area and Innovation Committee (ERAC) o
OECD STIP
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE
Preparing material for the tool presentation to funding agencies: Slides presentation
/infographic or short video tutorial to accompany the tool + list of questions to ask for
feedback
o Ideal timing for the presentation should be January/February
o Explore the possibility to open the access to the tool without asking the IP range