New arrangements have been made for the evaluation reform of scientific and technological talents with ＂breaking the four standards＂ and ＂setting new standards＂
The evaluation of scientific and technological talents once again ushered in heavy news! On November 9, the Ministry of Science and Technology, together with the Ministry of Education and other seven departments, jointly held a kick-off meeting for the pilot reform of scientific and technological personnel evaluation, and deployed and promoted the Work Plan on Carrying out the Pilot Reform of Scientific and Technological Personnel Evaluation (hereinafter referred to as the Plan). Focusing on making good use of living talents in national scientific and technological tasks, the Plan focuses on "what to evaluate, who will evaluate, how to evaluate and how to use", breaks through "breaking the four standards" and "setting new standards", ensures deepening reform and policy coordination, and builds an evaluation system of scientific and technological talents oriented to innovative value, ability and contribution according to the types of innovative activities, so as to provide strong talent support for realizing high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and building a world-class scientific and technological power.
The "Proposal" is clear, insisting on problem orientation, classified promotion, use of traction and coordinated implementation. "Promote the reform of talent evaluation in major national innovation activities such as major scientific and technological tasks and major innovation base construction, and strive to overcome ‘ Only papers, titles, academic qualifications and awards ’ Tendency. " The relevant person in charge of the Department of Science and Technology Talents and Science Popularization of the Ministry of Science and Technology said that the reform highlights the national goal and mission orientation, and insists on who uses who to evaluate, so as to use the evaluation and evaluation appropriately and use the evaluation results scientifically.
The reporter of Science and Technology Daily learned that the two-year pilot reform of evaluation of scientific and technological talents will be carried out in 12 research institutes including Shanghai Institute of Microsystems and Information Technology, Institute of Computing Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences and China Academy of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, 9 universities including Tsinghua University, Peking University and Zhejiang University, and 6 places including Shanghai and Shandong Province.
Facing the difficulty of implementing talent evaluation reform
The CPC Central Committee and the State Council attached great importance to the evaluation of scientific and technological talents. In 2018, the Central Office and the State Council issued "Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Reform of Talent Evaluation Mechanism by Classification" and "Opinions on Deepening the Reform of Project Evaluation, Talent Evaluation and Institutional Evaluation", and made systematic arrangements for improving the evaluation standards by classification and promoting the reform of "three evaluations".
"All localities and relevant departments have conscientiously implemented the requirements of the central authorities and issued ‘ Break the four virtues ’ And a series of reform measures, the reform of scientific and technological talent evaluation has made positive progress. " However, the person in charge admits that compared with the demands of the majority of scientific researchers and the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, there are still problems in the implementation of the evaluation reform of scientific and technological talents, and the "sense of acquisition" of scientific and technological talents is not strong.
In view of the outstanding problems such as "setting a new standard" after the talent evaluation "breaking the four standards", the innovation of evaluation methods and the inadequate construction of the evaluation system of employers, the "Plan" clarified the road map for the pilot reform of scientific and technological talent evaluation, and systematically deployed it from both the internal and external environment of the unit.
Explore new evaluation indicators, methods, cycles and internal systems according to different types of scientific and technological innovation activities and design the system; The external environment mainly deploys tasks from the aspects of promoting the reform linkage of "Three Evaluations" by relevant departments and building a talent evaluation system with industry characteristics. Through internal and external collaborative linkage, it explores the formation of an evaluation system for scientific and technological talents that is conducive to concentrated research.
"Through the two-year pilot, we will explore the formation of classified evaluation indicators and evaluation methods for scientific and technological talents of different types of innovative activities, and the evaluation mechanism for the discovery, training, use and encouragement of scientific and technological talents will be more perfect, forming an operational, replicable and scalable experience." The person in charge said.
Focus on the classification of national missions and carry out pilot projects
It is worth noting that this pilot insists on having both ability and political integrity. On the basis of strengthening the evaluation of scientific spirit and academic ethics of scientific and technological talents, the pilot tasks are deployed according to four types of innovative activities: undertaking major national research tasks, basic research, applied research and technology development, and social welfare research.
Specifically, the evaluation of scientific and technological talents who undertake major national research tasks is guided by supporting and serving the country’s major strategic needs, and an evaluation index that reflects the actual contribution and innovation value of supporting national security, breaking through key core technologies and solving major problems in economic and social development is established; The evaluation of basic research talents is guided by academic contribution and innovative value, which breaks the quantitative tendency of "only papers" and explores the low-frequency and long-term assessment mechanism; The evaluation of applied research and technology development talents is guided by technological breakthroughs and industrial contributions, focusing on the evaluation of representative achievements such as technical standards, technical solutions, high-quality patents, industrialization of achievements transformation, and deep integration effects in Industry-University-Research; The evaluation of social welfare research talents focuses on the ability and effect of serving public management, responding to emergencies, safeguarding people’s livelihood and social security, and other common key technology development and services, and no hard economic benefit evaluation index may be established.
Moreover, the "Program" also puts forward clear requirements for local governments to carry out comprehensive pilot reform of scientific and technological talent evaluation, highlight the characteristics of regional scientific and technological innovation and talent development, strengthen institutional mechanism reform, policy innovation and resource integration, systematically design local talent evaluation reform, and promote comprehensive reform experiments.
"The evaluation reform of scientific and technological talents is a systematic project with high complexity and difficulty, which is related to the vital interests of scientific researchers. The smooth development and effectiveness of the pilot work cannot be separated from the guidance, supervision and service guarantee of relevant departments and localities, and it is also inseparable from the initiative and implementation of the pilot units." The relevant person in charge said.
To this end, the "Program" puts forward requirements for relevant departments, pilot places and units respectively. For example, six departments, including the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, as the competent departments of the pilot units, should improve the industry talent evaluation mechanism and give employers the right to evaluate independently.
As the main responsible department, the Ministry of Science and Technology will shoulder the responsibility of organizing and promoting and take the lead in reform, such as breaking the "four talents" in the evaluation of scientific and technological plan projects, performance evaluation of scientific research institutions and selection of scientific and technological talent plans, highlighting innovation value, ability and contribution orientation, and summarizing concise and solidified results in time.
(Science and Technology Daily, Beijing, November 9 th)