Academic Careers Understood through Measurement and Norms (ACUMEN) is a European research collaboration aimed at understanding the ways in which researchers are evaluated by their peers and by institutions, and at assessing how the science system can be improved and enhanced. This FP7 project is a cooperation among several European research institutes with Professor Paul Wouters (CWTS – Leiden University) as principal investigator.

7th Framework Programme

Science in Society 2010 

Grant Agreement: 266632 

http://research-acumen.eu/ 

 Consortium Partners:

• Leiden University (the Netherlands)
• Bar Ilan University (Ramat Gan, Israel)
• Agencia estatal consejo superior de investigaciones cientificas (Madrid, Spain)
• University of Wolverhampton (United Kingdom)
• Estonian Research Council (Tartu, Estonia)
• Humboldt-Universitat (Berlin, Germany)
• Technische Hochschule Wildau (Wildau, Germany)
• Danmarks Biblioteksskole (Kopenhagen, Denmark)
• eHumanities Group - KNAW  (Amsterdam, Netherlands)