The national evaluation is organised by the governmental Council for Research, Development and Innovation (RVVI) on the basis of the Methodology for the Evaluation of Research Organisations and Completed Programmes of Special Purpose Support for Research, Development and Innovation of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (M17+).Its objective is to comprehensively evaluate the research activities of all research institutions in the Czech Republic.

The evaluation is divided in five modules:

• M1: Quality of selected results.Individual research institutions nominate their best publications to this module, which are then evaluated by peer review.
• M2: Research performance.Here, the publications of all research institutions are evaluated in an automated way based on bibliometric analyses.
• M3: Social relevance.In this module, the evaluation is carried out through self-evaluation reports, which in the case of universities are prepared by individual faculties, although the university is evaluated as a whole.
• M4: Viability (organisation, management, infrastructure and HR policy of research organisations, including their career development regulations and internal evaluation system).At universities, this part is evaluated through self-evaluation reports prepared at university level.
• M5: Strategy and concept.At universities, this part is evaluated through self-evaluation reports prepared at university level.

The evaluation of the quality of results (M1) and overall research performance (M2) is carried out annually.All five modules are evaluated together every five years by an international evaluation panel, which mainly evaluates modules M3–M5.

The first complete evaluation took place in 2020.The Charles University was awarded the best grade A (together with the Masaryk University, Palacký University in Olomouc and South-Bohemian University).

For more information (including the results of past evaluations), visit the website of the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic.