Directorate-General for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation

The Sub-Directorate General for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, attached to the Directorate General for Planning, focuses its activities on:

• Planning within the scope of the plans and strategies to be carried out in the areas falling within the competence of the General Secretariat for Research.

• The elaboration, planning, coordination and monitoring of the Spanish Strategies for Science and Technology and Innovation and of the actions of the General Administration of the State in the field of promotion and coordination of R+D+I, including the State Plans for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation and their corresponding Annual Action Programs, in agreement with the General Secretariat of Innovation in the scope of its competences.

• The elaboration and dissemination of the Annual Action Program of R+D+I.

• The dissemination of Research, development and innovation, promoting the knowledge, by the citizens, of the activities, actions and impact of the research, development and innovation policy developed by the scientific community in these matters, including their statistical dissemination.

• The development and management of the Information System on Science, Technology and Innovation for the evaluation and monitoring of the Spanish System of Science, Technology and Innovation, as well as the promotion of activities in this field, all without prejudice to the competences of other governing bodies of the department.

• The promotion, preparation and dissemination of studies, surveys, reports, indicators and statistics relating to the research, development and innovation system.

• The promotion and realization of activities and reports of monitoring and evaluation of the Spanish System of Science, Technology and Innovation, of its annual action programs and of the Spanish Strategies and the State Plans of Scientific, Technical and Innovation Research, in agreement with the General Secretariat of Innovation in the scope of its competences and without prejudice to the coordination of other governing bodies of the department in the matter.

• The coordination of the Information System on Science, Technology and Innovation, as well as the establishment of guidelines for the development of the necessary indicators for the evaluation, monitoring and management of the Spanish System of Science, Technology and Innovation.

• The exercise of the competences of the department in relation to the National Museum of Science and Technology.

Deputy Director-General:María Cristina Moneo Ocaña