Ikerbasque. Basque Foundation for Science

One of the most important processes for achieving our Mission consists in ensuring a truly independent, excellent and professional evaluation for the applications. Ikerbasque carries out an intensive search for the best researchers and scientific professional arround the world to be part of the evaluation panels. The evaluators can not be members of the local scientific community, since our aim is to ensure the independence of the evaluations.

110 independent external evaluators from 23 countries have participated in the evaluation process of Ikerbasque calls in 2011, under the coordination of the following members of Ikerbasque Scientific Advisory Committee:

• Prof. Salvador Barberà, Professor of Economics at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Rey Jaime I award in Economics 2008.
• Prof. Domingo Docampo, Professor of Telecommunications and ex-Chancellor of the University of Vigo.
• Prof. Javier López Facal, Research Professor of Scientific Policy and research management and Greek Lexicography at CSIC; ex-VicePresident of CSIC.
• Prof. Ginés Morata, Research Professor at the Spanish Council for Research CSIC; Principe de Asturias Award in Scientific Research 2007; Rey Jaime I Research Award 1996.
• Prof. Luis Oro, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry of the University of Zaragoza; Spanish National Reseach Award in Chemistry 2007, Rey Jaime I Research Award 1999.
• Prof. Joan Rodés, Professor of Medicine at the University of Barcelona; Spanish National Research Award in Medicine 2006.
• Prof. Felix Yndurain, Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

EVALUATION OF THE SCIENCE.EU.COM 2011 RESEARCH PROFESSOR CALL

From the over 880 registered applicants in 2011, 463 researchers were eligible under this call and their applications were reviewed in one of the 2 evaluations periods, spring and autumm.

Results of the spring evaluation

225 researchers were eligible under the spring evaluation in our 2011 call for Research Professors and were screened by our evaluation panels. The Scientific Advisory Committee short-listed 25 applications (11%) based on:

• Scientific merit and research track
• Interest of the Research Statement provided in the application
• Relevance of research topic and latest publications
• Concordance with Basque research capabilities

These short-listed candidates will go into the following phase for interview with the host research institution. The finally selected researchers are regularly added to the Researcher Profiles section of this website.

Results of the autumm evaluation 

238 researchers were eligible under the autumm evaluation in our 2011 call for Research Professors and were screened by our evaluation panels. The Scientific Advisory Committee short-listed 27 applications (11%) based on:

• Scientific merit and research track
• Interest of the Research Statement provided in the application
• Relevance of research topic and latest publications
• Concordance with Basque research capabilities

These short-listed candidates will go into the following phase for interview with the host research institution.

The finally selected researchers will be added to the Researcher Profiles section of this website.

EVALUATION OF THE 2012 VISITING FELLOWS CALL

Ikerbasque received 63 joint applications by international researchers and Basque research institution for Visiting Fellowships. Based on independent external review, our Scientific Advisory Committee short-listed 20 applications (32%) based on:

• Scientific merit and research track of the Visiting Fellow
• Interest of the research project provided in the application
• Research track of the Basque research group

These short-listed candidates will go into the following phase for interview with the host research institution.

The visiting researchers that finally accept the fellowship will be added to awarded Visiting Fellowships section of this website.

Visit the Ikerbasque Ethics and Code of Conduct section for more information on general strategy and guideliness on the recruitment of researchers.