Publications of the Academy of Finland 12/02

The evaluation of the Research Programme for Process Technology (1999-2002) is divided into two parts; the first part concerns the international evaluation of the scientific quality of the programme and the second part describes the self-evaluation of the programme’s relevance and effectiveness.

The scientific quality of the research was predominantly of a high level, but the number of doctoral theses and refereed articles was lower than expected. The international panel recommends among others that future research programmes should consist entirely of consortia that could benefit from the participating research groups’ expertise and findings.

New inventions and innovations were made in all three main fields of the programme: process phenomena, process simulation, modelling and optimisation, and development of research methodology.