Research strategy
The Research Strategy builds on the significant improvement in the School’s research performance and international visibility over the past decade, while also seeking to address current challenges in its research ecosystem. These include time constraints arising from teaching and organizational workloads, the predominantly short-term nature of external funding, the fragmentation of research activities and the partial underutilization of synergies between research groups, as well as the need to further develop the evaluation of research performance. The aim is to create a research environment that is embedded both nationally and internationally, in which, alongside scientific excellence, increasing emphasis is placed on the scientific, societal, and economic impact of research, as well as on the integration of research results into education and their contribution to the local economic and social environment.
The Strategy organizes developments for the coming period around three key objectives: further increasing high-quality research outputs, strengthening the scientific impact of research, and deepening the integration of the Faculty’s research activities into the global research environment. To this end, the Faculty is moving away from a purely annual, output-based approach to performance assessment towards a more balanced evaluation framework based on multi-year and composite indicators, while encouraging high-quality publications, sustainable long-term research programmes, international collaborations and funding sources, as well as the broader societal and economic utilization of research.
The targets include increasing the four-year cumulative total of the Faculty’s aggregate publication score (KPI 5), achieving cumulative growth in citations (KPI 6), and increasing the share of publications co-authored with researchers from outside the Faculty and with international co-authors to at least 35% and 8%, respectively (KPI 7).