Section: Research Policy & Development

The subject of this evaluation is the arts-based research programme (PEEK) of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). With the introduction of this programme in 2009, the FWF has reacted to the equating of arts universities with other universities as postulated in the amendment to the 2002 Higher Education Act, which was anchored in the Research and Technology Act of 2007 with a corresponding amendment. As an equivalent for “science”, the work area of “developing and opening up the arts” (i.e. “Entwicklung und Erschließung der Künste”) was adopted for the arts universities. The inclusion of “developing and opening up the arts” in the Research and Technology Act was also meant to signalise the upgrading of art colleges to arts universities and their equal treatment with other public universities. To ensure the opportunity to provide adequate research approaches that correspond to the character and scope of the arts universities, arts-based research was identified as a promising approach, which was taken up by PEEK.

The PEEK evaluation, which took place between May 2020 and December 2021, was conducted by ZSI together with Prof. Felix Stalder of the Zurich University of the Arts.

Suggested citation: Glinsner, Barbara und Stalder, Felix und Schuch, Klaus (2022): Evaluation of the Arts-based Research Programme of the Austrian Science Fund (PEEK). Technischer Bericht. Wien. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6318805

You can access the report here.

The Austrian Sciene Fund's management response to the evaluation can be downloade here.

Authors: Glinsner, B., Schuch, K., Felix Stalder (Zurich University of the Arts)

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