Head of Division: Lourdes Armesto López.

Contact: Torrelaguna street 58 bis.

Email: dces@aei.gob.es

Principal functions:

The head of the Scientific and Technical Coordination, Evaluation and Monitoring Division has as main functions:

• Coordinate the dependent subdivisions in terms of evaluation and monitoring.
• Coordinate the selection and appointment processes of scientific and technological Collaborators (who are assigned to the AEI for a specified time for scientific and technical advice and support tasks under article 19 of Law 14/2011, on Science, Technology and Innovation).
• Coordinate the preparation of the annual action plan and prepare the AEI's annual activity report.
• Participate in the definition of the aid modalities and their budget for their inclusion in the annual action program to be approved by SEIDI.
• Coordinate with the Economic and Administrative Programming and Management Division the planning, distribution and control of the budget assigned to each call.
• Coordinate the actions of the AEI with the Center for Industrial Technological Development (CDTI) and with the rest of the existing financing agents in Spain and internationally, within the scope of their competences.
• Promote the dissemination of the results and activities of the AEI to society.

The Coordination and Evaluation Branch (SCE), the defunct National Evaluation and Prospective Agency (ANEP), is in charge of organizing the ex ante evaluation procedures, and the application of the rules, principles and criteria contained in the calls and actions managed by the AEI guaranteeing the transparency, objectivity and impartiality of the application selection process, through peer and/or panel review.

Head of Subdivision: Julio Bravo de Pedro.

Contact: Torrelaguna street 58 bis.

Email: seval@aei.gob.es

Principal functions:

• Prepare protocols, methodologies and procedures for scientific-technical evaluation, in accordance with national and international standards on the matter.
• Organize, coordinate and manage the ex ante evaluation processes of the aid applications submitted, both from the AEI and from other public and private institutions that carry out calls for aid or other initiatives in the field of the promotion of R+D+I.
• Improve the capacity of the public Science, Technology and Innovation system.
• Contribute to the decision to allocate resources for R+D+I to be made based on criteria of excellence and scientific-technical quality.
• Carry out the scientific-technical evaluation of research proposals to participate in national and international programs and projects, as well as follow up on their results. It will also manage the evaluation of how many scientific-technical proposals are entrusted to it by the AEI Directorate.

In the development of its scientific-technical evaluation tasks, this subdivision has the support of scientific and technological collaborators assigned to the AEI for an approximate period of three years, in accordance with article 19 of the Science Law, and with a Bank of Collaborating Experts of the AEI (BECA), which is in charge of maintaining. Also carrying out the search, invitation and incorporation of new national and international experts.

It is also in charge of other related tasks such as the organization of the candidacies of the scientific and technological collaborators assigned to the unit, in accordance with the established protocol. The organization and management of technical and evaluation panels and commissions, attending to the needs of the meetings (rooms, computers, projection guns, generation of minutes in computer application, etc.) and of the commissioners (travel and accommodation), preparation economic report of the cost of the evaluation of each call and information to citizens through the different communication channels.

Institutions that request R+D+I evaluation from the AEI

• Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness, other Ministries, Autonomous Communities, public and private universities, Public Research Bodies (OPIS), public and private Foundations, International Bodies.

Evaluation activities carried out by the SCE

Some 25,000 requests for activities related to R+D+I are evaluated annually, of which approximately 80% correspond to actions of this Ministry and the rest to other ministerial departments, CCAA, OPIS, Universities, Foundations, etc.