Measuring Tools and Evaluation Techniques for EU Funds

04. June 2012 - 05. June 2012, Novotel Berlin Tiergarten

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European Commission demands rigorous and regular evaluations
The European Commission demands that EU strategies and programmes are evaluated rigorously and on a regular basis on both national and regional level. But how do you measure the success of EU funds? Which evaluation method should be selected? And how do you assess the impact of actions and the economic growth in your country?

A proper toolkit of evaluation methods is crucial
As the person in charge of operational programmes of EU funds, you need a qualified database on outputs, results and the impact of projects. Targets and outcome indicators have to be clear and measurable. Information about the indicators and the progress towards the agreed targets shall be central in the annual report. Moreover, the Commission recommends a much greater use of strict evaluation methods, such as impact evaluation, and demands that plans for on-going evaluation of each programme shall become obligatory. Therefore a proper toolkit of evaluation methods is crucial for your current and coming activities in EU funds management.

Who is this workshop for?

This workshop is targeted at public authorities such ministries and agencies responsible for monitoring and evaluating operational programmes of EU funds as well as for regional policy and EU structural funds from departments such as:

• Evaluation Unit
• EU Funds Management Department
• Project Implementation Unit
• Business Improvement Services
• Strategy and Business Planning
• Clusters Policy
• Regional Development Strategies

Furthermore this workshop is addressed to:

• Consulting Companies in the field of regional policy and regional
  development strategies
• Project Managers

What will you learn at this workshop?

• How does ex-ante, ongoing and ex-post evaluation function in the
  2007-2013 programme period?
• What can be expected from the new programme period regarding
  evaluation?
• How to increase the quality of ex-ante and ongoing evaluation?
• How can ex-post evaluation improve strategic orientations of your
  programmes?
• How to set measurable goals and good quality indicators?
• How to use evaluation findings for policy making?
• For which projects and programmes is counterfactual impact evaluation useful?
• How to collect data and how to measure impacts?
• How to prepare an evaluation plan for the new programming period?

Please send your questions, also about subjects not precisely covered by the programme, at least two weeks before the workshop to:
coordination[at]euroacad.eu
Our experts will integrate these issues into the workshop and provide recommendations.

Your Benefit

• Determine the programme content according to your needs – send your own questions and problems
• Be innovative – find out more about different evaluation methods
• Improve your evaluation toolkit and understand impact evaluation
• Profit from the knowledge of our highly experienced experts
• Avoid common mistakes – learn from examples of new and old
  Member States
• Work in small groups and exchange knowledge and experiences with
  qualified colleagues from other Member States

Language: englisch

Meeting hotel

» Novotel Berlin Tiergarten

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