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Evaluation criteria

The evaluation is based on the following criteria:

  • Scientific excellence of the research
  • Impact of the research (scientific, technological, economical, cultural, societal)
  • Relevance of the applied resources for the research
  • Suitability of CSC’s available resources for the research
An overall principle is to favor research with the highest merits.

Additional credits are given to research programs that have the objectives of developing research environments; and are:

  • coordinating otherwise scattered research capacities; promoting multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and where possible transdisciplinarity;
  • developing cooperation between researchers, funding bodies and end-users of research results;
  • increasing the international visibility of Finnish research in a joint effort;
  • promoting openness of scientific results.