The EU Research and Technological Development (RTD) framework programmes have been evaluated by the European Court of Auditors.

'Poorly defined programme objectives and weak performance measurement undermined effective monitoring and evaluation,' said the Court of Auditors in a statement. 'The absence of a comprehensive evaluation strategy, agreed between the Research Directorates-General implementing the framework programmes, resulted in inconsistent approaches between the different Commission services,' states the report.

Source: Cordis

The full report can be found here: http://eca.europa.eu/portal/pl...