Trials aim to address concerns about possible unconscious bias and limited feedback from evaluators
The European Commission has confirmed that it will trial several changes to how proposals for EU R&D funding are evaluated in the bloc’s 2021-27 R&D programme, Horizon Europe, to see if the process could be fairer and more informative for applicants.
Isabel Vergara Ogando, a Commission official, said at the Commission’s Research and Innovation Days conference on 22 September that one such trial will pilot the evaluation of anonymised applications.
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