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SVC Final Evaluation. Background Report Lepori and Probst
4 The SVC projects
In this chapter, we provide information on the status and perspectives of the SVC-funded
projects, including their integration in the curricula and their relationships with their CCSP.
The information has been collected through the monitoring dossiers of the projects, passive
participation in the monitoring visits during 2007 and two different online questionnaires: one for
already concluded projects, which did not get any more federal funding, and one for projects
that were still continuing in 2007, and thus had a monitoring in 2007 (either in the production or
maintenance phase).
23 out of 26 project leaders or coordinators from concluded projects answered the
questionnaire (88 %), and 80 1 out of 88 ongoing projects (91 %). The total response rate is
therefore 90% (103 out of 114; Table 4).
1c 1m 2c 2m 3c 3m 3p 4p total
not answered 2 1 1 1 4 2 11
answered 11 14 11 10 1 10 18 28 103
Total 13 15 12 10 1 11 22 30 114
Table 4: Respondents by series 2
Some information has been cross-checked with the answers of the CCSP leaders concerning
their views on the situation and perspectives of the SVC projects.
4.1 Number and status of projects
Overall, the SVC has funded 112 projects divided in four series. Two more projects were funded
by OPET and administratively managed by the SVC. After the end of their production phase, the
projects had the possibility of asking for a maintenance support to help their integration in the
curricula (with the exception of the 4 th series projects whose production phase ends only at the
end of 2007 or, for most of them, before July 2008). Thus, there are different situations of
projects to consider.
Table 5 gives an overview on the projects by series and status. In 2007, 26 projects were
already concluded, while 88 were still going on, 36 of them in maintenance, 52 in production
phase. While at the beginning it was foreseen that projects should be concluded at the end of
2007, many made use of the possibility to ask for prolongation until mid 2008 (without additional
federal funding).
1st 2nd 3rd 4th total
Concluded 13 12 1 26
Maintenance 15 10 11 3 36
Production 22 30 52
total 28 22 34 30 114
Table 5: Projects by status and series
The developed projects are not equally distributed among scientific fields (Table 6). Areas with
many projects are Medicine/Pharmacy/Health, Computer Sciences/Telecommunications,
Sciences/Mathematics and Social Sciences/Social Work. Projects in Social Sciences/Social
Work have been developed mainly in the consolidation phase, while the other fields were very
active in the impulse phase as well. Architecture/Engineering is a field that started with a
considerable number of projects, but then decreased steadily.
1
One of these projects answered only to half of the questions, thus in several questions we have one
missing answer.
2
1c = first series, concluded, 1m = first series, maintenance, 3p = third series, production, etc.
3 Two of these projects are only administratively managed by the SVC coordination This raises the total
number of projects to 114.
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