Abstract: In recent years, international reform of scientific research evaluation has intensified, with the evaluation of scientific and technological talent becoming a focal point of concern for various countries. Influenced by the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, the Netherlands has emerged as a leading representative of research evaluation reform in Europe. At the end of 2022, it officially launched a systematic reform called the Recognition & Rewards Programme at the national and institutional levels, aiming to complete the first phase of reform by the end of 2024. The Netherlands’ reform of scientific and technological talent evaluation follows a “national coordination-institutional pilot” approach, and its pace of reform aligns closely with that of our country. Therefore, this paper focuses on the reform of scientific and technological talent evaluation in the Netherlands, analyzing aspects such as the background of the reform, implementation pathways, and its effects, and uses the example of the reform practices at the University Medical Center Utrecht to explore specific methods in talent categorization and evaluation standards. This study summarizes and refines the practical experience of the Netherlands’ science and technology talent evaluation reform and combines it with the actual situation of China’s science and technology talent evaluation reform, and puts forward four suggestions in order to provide a reference for China’s next stage of science and technology talent evaluation reform pilot work.

Key words: Scientific and Technological Talents Evaluation; Reform Pilot; DORA; Netherlands; Recognition & Rewards Programme