The proposed project, in line with PRIME objectives, acknowledges the new challenges (economic, social and ethical) posed by a changing scientific landscape in Europe, characterised by increasing globalisation of research, by the emergence of new search regimes and by changes in knowledge production and circulation.

This project aims to develop an analytical framework for the mapping and assessment of research portfolios. The notion of ?research portfolio? is increasingly used by funding agencies. However, there is no clear understanding and very little research on how to define, map and assess a research portfolio. Here we aim to develop a multi-method approach to investigate a research portfolio of a given disease.

This project will carry out a pilot evaluation of the outcomes and impacts of research carried out by the research unit eRPSS, which will be partly used to prepare a H2020 and partly developed as a little research study on its own. To this purpose we will apply the SIAMPI assessment method (Social Impact Assessment Methods for research through the study of Productive Interactions, http://www.siampi.eu/), which focuses on the processes of interaction between researchers and stakeholders.