issue: Attracting the best Suggestion: Conscription evaluators in Europe and abroad and securing the highest - All EU evaluators should have an excellent professional record level of excellence and demonstrating several of the following competences: multiple competence in all peer review high-quality publications and/or patents, external peer-reviewed boards research funding, documented experience in evaluating research proposals and well-proven experience in industrial collaborations and/or mentoring of junior investigators as well as personal skills such as having a broad perspective and overview of their research field - It should be mandatory for all researchers who apply for research funding from the EU to be available as evaluators upon request from the EU - A certain percentage of the total Horizon 2020 budget (e.g. 0.5%) should be set aside for funding evaluators issue: Facilitation of an Suggestion: One database, one brain pool easy-to-use, easy-to-understand evaluation system characterised - Pool evaluators from all Horizon 2020 sub-programmes in a by simplicity and a high level European register of qualified evaluators and use this for both of flexibility European and national evaluation of research proposals - Apply dedicated selection of evaluators on a call-to-call basis - Use keywords and draw on best practices from the systems used by the scientific journals issue: Promoting timely Suggestion: identification and training cross-disciplinarity by avoiding mono-disciplinary review boards - Identify all possible disciplines to be evaluated in specific calls for funding in order to set up multi-faceted review boards - The review boards should always strive to have a good balance of top scientists, industrial experts, project management experts and other stakeholders - Establish a proper format for cross-disciplinary studies to be followed up as part of education programmes 11
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