Dear Colleague! *Open Evaluation 2016 <https://conference.zsi.at/index.php/OPENEVAL/OPENEVAL2016/>*/, /the largest conference in Europe dedicated to the evaluation of policies in the field of research, technology and innovation policy (RTI) will gather academics, evaluators, research managers, authorities and RTI policy makers to debate challenging developments in RTI policy and their effects on evaluation theory and practice. The conference takes place in *Vienna on 24-25 November 2016*.The main *conference organisers* are the Austrian Platform for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation, the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research and IFRIS - Institut Francilien Recherche Innovation Société, Paris. *The deadline for the call for extended abstracts is 15 April 2016.* Please visit our homepage <https://conference.zsi.at/index.php/OPENEVAL/OPENEVAL2016/schedConf/overview>! The conference addresses new actor settings, approaches and themes in RTI policy evaluation. Thus, the term *OPEN EVALUATION* signals openness towards new values, new stakeholders and beneficiaries as well as new approaches and themes in RTI policies and RTI evaluations. The conference focuses on the following *thematic priorities*: 1. Changing the role of evaluation of RTI policy to incorporate new values, RRI and new forms of science 2. New evaluation approaches in data, methods, indicators and their interpretation 3. RTI policy evaluation in the policy-making process 4. Social innovation, societal impact, societal challenges 5. Evaluation approaches for policies and programmes in social sciences and humanities (SSH) 6. Challenges and new approaches to evaluate European RTI policies and programmes We are looking forward to making this important event a success – together with you. The Scientific Committee & the Organising Committee
