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Planning ahead: support activities for the evaluation of cohesion policy programmes

2007–2013

Daniele VIDONIDG Regional and Urban Policy

Brussels, 10 March 20141

Cohesion Policy

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The background

The Evaluation Unit is currently planning to:A. Launch a contract for a group that will

support the analysis of evaluation plans and evaluations;

B. Organize a conference in 2016 on “Impact evaluation of cohesion policy".

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Scope of the conference

• the conference will be:• a showcase for the best available evaluations, • a place to discuss good practices in evaluation

planning, • an opportunity to broaden the actors involved in

evaluation of cohesion policy,• An opportunity to put MAs and evaluators in

contact. • The target audience for the event will be MAs,

practitioners, academics and young researchers.

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Possible sessions:

• The best impact evaluations of interventions co-financed in the 2007-13 programming period,

• The best Evaluation Plans for 2014-20, • A poster session on good evaluation research

proposals of the 2007-13 interventions.

Dates: second half of May 2016

Venue: still to be defined, offers welcome.

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Possible competition structure:• The competition will target two separate strands

of contributions:• Best completed evaluation (commissioned by MAs).• Best evaluation proposal by young and other researchers

• For both groups, three categories of contributions will be evaluated:• Ex-post CBA,• Theory-based evaluations,• Counterfactual evaluation.

• Jury of international evaluation experts• The winners will be invited to present their work

at the 2016 conference.

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Peculiar to the evaluation proposal strand:

• The researchers will write a proposal to evaluate the impact cohesion policy programmes 2007–2013 funded by ERDF and CF on the basis of:• REGIO data published in the DG REGIO website,• The deliverables of DG REGIO Ex-Post Evaluation WPs

(which will be published on the DG REGIO website),• The data published by MAs...

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Tentative roadmap:

• 1-3/10/14: announcement of the competition at the 11th EES Biennial Conference: Evaluation for an Equitable Society: Independence, Partnership, Participation,

• 1/3/15: opening of website for submitting contributions,

• 31/12/15: deadline for submitting contributions • 31/3/16: decision on winners

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The questions to you:

Are you interested in these initiatives?

Can you advertise the competition among the evaluators that are already supporting you?

Are you willing to support potential evaluators with data/contact points for clarifications on issues related to already public data?

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