BACKGROUND. Ministry of Social Affairs and Health funds university-level research. There is scant evidence on the productivity of EVO-funding. METHODS. The publications and dissertations of EVO-funded researchers at Pirkanmaa Hospital District. The study year was 2008 and the follow up period for publications was five years between 2009-2014. The publications were compared by funding, academic status, age and size of the research group. RESULTS. Research projects got € 3 million of EVO-funding, and they used 96 % of it. Funded projects produced 1899 international publications, 89 domestic publications and 92 doctoral dissertations. The median number of publications was highest during the first four years. The most published researchers were professors and docents. Publishing increased after 40- years of age and began to decline after 60-years of age. Bigger research groups achieved dissertations more likely than the smaller groups. EVO- research funding was used for staff expenditure (68 %), equipment and materials (23 %) as well as services (9 %). CONCLUSIONS Research EVO-funding is an important source for doctoral dissertation projects and for smaller groups. Measuring the effectiveness of research funding and productivity is necessary but requires the development of research infrastructure. ORCID, Open Research and Contributor ID would help to identified researchers and their publications without the uncertainties. Researching the productivity and effectiveness of single source funding is difficult because of the multi-channeled research funding.

SKEP ERA-NET is a partnership that aims to improve the coordination of environmental research in Europe. This report is a result of  Work Package 3 of the SKEP ERA-NET, led by the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) and the Finnish Ministry of the Environment (FiMoE). SKEP ERA-NET is part of the ERA-NET scheme, which is one of the tools of the European Union to create an integrated European Research Area for innovative knowledge production. The report concentrates on the mid-term and ex-post evaluation of environment-related research programmes. It synthesises experiences of programme evaluations by reviewing evaluation literature and analysing material that has been collected from various research funding agencies. The material includes both written documents and interviews. The report also presents outcomes of an evaluation-related workshop held in spring 2007. Different approaches are provided concerning the planning of programme evaluation and choosing the type, focus and methods of the evaluation. Special attention is paid to the challenges of evaluating the societal and environmental outcomes of a research programme. The utilisation of the evaluation results is also covered. As the ERA-NET scheme aims at increasing supranational research collaboration in the form of e.g. joint research programmes, one part of the report is devoted to the evaluation of jointly coordinated and funded research programmes.