About Us

Contact Information

There is an FAQ-section which should answer your most immediate questions.

If you have any more questions about SmartAgency.Net or if you are looking for an experienced facilitator, contact one of the SmartAgency.Net ManagementTeam members.

If you are a registered user of SmartAgency.Net, you can find contact information of all other registered users in the FacilitatorList topic.

The Background

The background of SmartAgency.net lies in a 4-year TAFTIE task force on the subject of "Additionality". The task force has developed a self-assessment tool and process for assessing the added value that a research and innovation funding agency provides for its clients. Hence, it helps an agency to assess its effectiveness.

The self-assessment tool and its associated process have been developed by programme managers and evaluators at TAFTIE agencies in a number of different countries. As a result, the tool set is flexible and easily adapted to the needs and the context of a specific funding agency. In 2007, the task force reached a stage where new organisations and individuals were invited to join SmartAgency - a community aiming at making agencies more effective through the use of the task force results. SmartAgency.net was created to facilitate the dissemination of the task force results among the members of SmartAgency and the communication between these organisations, SmartAgency.net helps members communicate with each other, obtain access to the self-assessment tool set, make improvements to the tool set available to other members of SmartAgency, and to make contact with other members in the community.

Over the duration of the task force, numerous people have contributed to the papers, tool set and website. We would like to thank all of these individuals for their participation and input.

More information on TAFTIE can be found at TAFTIE's website.

First Steps

Please read the introduction to find out what SmartAgency.Net is all about!

For more details, see the SelfAssessment section (Registration necessary!).

Copyright Disclaimer

This website and all its content (except for the code of the self-assessment software) is licensed through the following creative commons licence:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Licence.

Technical Information

This platform is based on TWiki, a -socalled WikiWikiClone, i.e. a system that has technically easy-to-use collaborative features already built in. The most famous wiki around is of course the Wikipedia.

As you will discover, not all pages on this website can be edited by all registered users. However, input and contributions from all users are greatly appreciated in the FacilitatorNetwork section of this site.

Please see the TWikiTutorial for a 20 minute introduction and the TWikiFAQ for Frequently Asked Questions about TWiki.

This website is hosted by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency, FFG.