General information on the six-year evaluation procedure - 2025

 

5.1 Permanent and temporary civil servants in university teaching bodies and permanent civil servants in scientific positions in public research organizations of the General State Administration may submit their applications for research activity evaluation from January 9, 2026, to January 30, 2026.

• The contributions accompanying their application must have been published in the years under evaluation.

5.2 In accordance with the provisions of Article 14.2.e) of Law 39/2015, of October 1, interested parties must submit their applications exclusively via electronic registration, for which they may identify themselves by any of the means provided for in Article 9 of the same law.

The forms and annexes must be completed and sent electronically via the ANECA website: https://aneca.sede.gob.es/
This website provides access to the resolution of the National Commission for the Evaluation of Research Activity (CNEAI), which specifies the general and specific evaluation criteria for each field. Duplicates or receipts of the documents submitted by electronic registration may also be obtained, and the processing of applications may be tracked.

5.3 Applications must include the following documentation, which will be available on the ANECA electronic headquarters application:

a) Application form generated and signed by the applicant.

b) Curriculum vitae generated when completing the application with up to a maximum of five contributions selected by the interested party for evaluation. A “contribution” shall be understood to be any unit that can be classified under one of the evaluation criteria referred to in section 7 of this call. Each contribution must include:

The data necessary for its identification.

• A persistent identifier (DOI, Handle, ARK, SWHID, or, in general, a unique permanent URI/URL).
• The link to the repository where it has been deposited, if such deposit is mandatory.
• Each contribution shall be accompanied by a “brief summary,” with the maximum length established by the online application, containing the most outstanding objectives and results of the research. Individual abstracts may be replaced by a single abstract referring to all of them.

Likewise, the applicant must accompany the “indications of relevance and impact” of the research. In describing these indications, the following order must be followed:

1. Contribution of the contribution to the advancement of knowledge (originality, innovation, thematic priority, contribution to scientific debate, methodological contribution, among others).
2. Scientific impact of the contribution (use, references made by other authors, quality, internationalization, and impact of the means of dissemination, among others).
3. Social impact of the contribution (non-academic mentions and references, use and effective application in non-academic environments, among others).
4. Contribution of the contribution to open science (degree of openness, compliance with FAIR principles in data sets, contribution to free software, among others).
5. In the event that the contributions are the result of a collective work, each applicant may include the aforementioned research in their curriculum vitae, expressly mentioning in the corresponding summaries the scope of their personal contribution to the collective work.

Each applicant may include up to two substitute contributions, duly referenced and identified as such, which may replace others submitted in the first instance and which, in the evaluation process, may be considered of insufficient quality to achieve the minimum required score.

c) Curriculum vitae (the FECYT model is recommended), which should only include research, development, and innovation activities from the years under evaluation. In accordance with the provisions of the Order of December 2, 1994, establishing the procedure for the evaluation of research activity in accordance with Royal Decree 1086/1989, of August 28, this CV must contain:

• Complete scientific record.
• Participation in research projects funded during the six-year period and at least three previous years.
• Publications, at least during the six-year period requested.
• Stays at foreign centers.
• Communications and presentations at conferences by invitation and organized conferences during the six-year period requested.

d) Service record issued by the university or research organization, including the position held as of December 31, 2025, and the period for which evaluation is requested, stating the applicant's employment status during that period. The service record must be dated after the date of publication of this call in the Official State Gazette.

e) If the research has been carried out at a center that does not appear on the “Service Record,” a copy of the contracts, appointments, scholarship credentials, or similar reliable documents must be attached, including the period of time and the work schedule. In all cases, it must be a higher education center or a center whose primary and regular activity is research.

5.4 ANECA may request, at any time during the administrative procedure, the original documents from which the electronic files included in the application were generated, in order to verify their validity and consistency. ANECA reserves the right to take legal action against anyone who modifies or alters those original documents to generate the electronic files included in the application.

5.5 Any queries relating to this call for applications and the computer application used for it should be addressed to “ANECA Responde,” accessible from the website via this link: https://ayuda.aneca.es

Determination of periods

Each assessable period shall be determined as follows:

a) Each period must cover six years of research.

b) Years are understood to be full calendar years (from January 1 to December 31), and only fractions of a year equal to or greater than eight months shall be counted as a calendar year.

c) The years comprising a period may or may not be consecutive, except in the case of a single evaluation referred to in the following article, in which case they must be consecutive.

First applications

1. Those interested in applying for evaluation for the first time may request that the National Commission evaluate only the research activity carried out up to December 31, 1988, in the annual calls for applications issued by the aforementioned National Commission. In this case, the corresponding application for evaluation of research activity must include all services provided up to December 31, 1988, that the interested party wishes to submit for evaluation. Under no circumstances may complete sections not submitted for this single evaluation by the interested party be subject to subsequent evaluations.

For the purposes of the aforementioned single evaluation, the National Commission shall jointly evaluate all the research activity submitted and shall assign the appropriate sections in accordance with the criteria established in this Order.

2. In an application other than that referred to in the previous paragraph, interested parties may independently incorporate and submit for evaluation any period that may result from combining the rest of their research activity prior to December 31, 1988, and that carried out subsequently in complete calendar years. In any case, this remainder must necessarily refer to periods of less than six years and subsequent to the end of the last section included in the single evaluation.

Construcción de los tramos

1. Corresponde a cada solicitante determinar, en la primera solicitud de evaluación que formule, el año a partir del cual solicita la evaluación de la actividad investigadora. Determinada dicha fecha por el interesado, la actividad realizada con anterioridad no podrá ser alegada ni tenida en cuenta, cualquiera que sea su dimensión temporal, a efectos de evaluaciones futuras.

2. El espacio temporal comprendido entre dos tramos sometidos a evaluación y respecto del cual el interesado no haya presentado solicitud, no podrá ser alegado ni tenido en cuenta, cualquiera que sea su dimensión temporal, a efectos de evaluaciones posteriores.

3. En el caso de que el tramo de investigación solicitado se haya construido con años no consecutivos, serán aplicadas las previsiones del número anterior para aquellos espacios temporales respecto de los cuales el interesado no haya presentado solicitud.

Construction of the sections

1. It is up to each applicant to determine, in their first application for evaluation, the year from which they request the evaluation of their research activity. Once this date has been determined by the interested party, any activity carried out prior to this date may not be claimed or taken into account, regardless of its duration, for the purposes of future evaluations.

2. The time period between two sections submitted for evaluation and for which the interested party has not submitted an application may not be claimed or taken into account, regardless of its duration, for the purposes of subsequent evaluations.

3. In the event that the research period requested has been constructed with non-consecutive years, the provisions of the previous paragraph shall apply to those periods for which the interested party has not submitted an application.

Periods prior to 1989

In the single evaluation application referred to in the third transitional provision of Royal Decree 1086/1989, of August 28, on university faculty remuneration, referred to in Article 1, interested parties may include up to seven sections or complete periods of research activity, although only six sections may be recognized for the economic purposes provided for in Article 2.4 of the aforementioned Royal Decree.

Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, those who, by virtue of the single evaluation or following future evaluations, have had six periods recognized may expressly waive any of the initial periods recognized and subsequently request the evaluation of research activity carried out after the last period evaluated and recognized; a negative evaluation of the activity corresponding to said request shall in no case entitle the interested party to request the recovery of the section or sections to which they renounced.

Negative assessment of a period

Periods that have been assessed negatively may not be the subject of a new assessment request at a later date. However, researchers whose last research period submitted has been assessed negatively may construct a new period of six years, including some of those already assessed negatively in the last request made and at least three subsequent to those. This regime shall not apply in the case of a single evaluation provided for in the third transitional provision of Royal Decree 1086/1989, of August 28, on university faculty remuneration, referred to in Article 1.