preparing for eu 2014-2020

3rd international evaluation conference

June 7-8, 2012

Budapest

Courtyard by MarriottBudapestCityCenter

(H-1088 Budapest, József krt. 5.)

Programme

7 june thursday

8.30-9.00Registration

9.00-9.30Welcome

Kinga Kenyeres Deputy Director General, Managing Authority for Coordination, Hungarian National Development Agency

Opening

Zoltán Petykó President,Hungarian National Development Agency

9.30 – 12.30Session 1: status of overall preparationFOR THE 2014-2020 ROUND

9.30-10.00Overview of the European Commission’s Preparatory Process

Andriana Sukova-ToshevaDirector,DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, European Commission

10.00-12.30Status of Preparations in Other Member States

(The Role of Evaluations in Planning)

10.00-10.25Slovenia

Franci Klužer MSc, Head of Unit for Strategic Development Planning, Ministry of Economic Development and Technology EU Cohesion Policy Directorate, Slovenia

10.25-10.50Coffee

10.50-11.15Italy,Portugal

Dr. Federica Tarducci, Ministry of Economic Development, Department for Cohesion and Development Policy, Italy

Luis Pires, Fund Europa, Portugal

11.15-11.40 Denmark

Preben Gregersen Regional Policy Director, MA-Denmark Danish Business Authority

11.40-12.05TheCzechRepublic

Olga LetackováDirector General,Ministry of Regional Development of the CzechRepublic

12.05-12.30Hungary

Kinga Kenyeres Deputy Director General, Managing Authority for Coordination, Hungarian National Development Agency

12.30-13.30Lunch

13.30- 15.00session 2:Commission Evaluation Proposals for the New 2014-2020 Round

The tasks of ex-ante evaluations and strategic environmental assessments in relation to planning

13.30-14.00Anastasios Nychas Deputy Head of Unit for Cohesion Policy and Environmental Impact Assessments, EC Directorate-General for Environment

14.00-14.30Sigried Caspar, Evaluation and Impact Assessment, EC Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion

14.30-15.00Adam Abdulwahab, Evaluation Unit, EC Directorate General Regio

15.00-15.15Coffee

15.15 –17.00Session 3: theRole of Evaluation in Preparing the New 2014-2020 Round – strategic level

15.15-15.45Setting National Investment Priorities on the Basis of Evaluations

David Hegarty Former Head of NDP/CSF Evaluation Unit, Ministry of FinanceIreland

15.45-16.15Synthesis Evaluation of Strategic Concepts: Hungary

Andrea NestorDirector

János MatolcsyIndependent Expert

KPMG Consulting Ltd.

16.15-16.45Ex Ante Evaluation 2014-20: Implications of the New Requirements

Jim Fitzpatrick Managing Director Fitzpatrick Associates,Ireland

16.45-17.00Wrap-up

Kinga Kenyeres Deputy Director General, Managing Authority for Coordination, Hungarian National Development Agency

18.00-22.00Walk in the BudaCastle

Dinner at the Fishermen’s Bastion Restaurant

8 June Friday

8.30-9.00Registration

9.00-10.30Session 4: the Role of Evaluation in Preparing the New 2014-2020 Round – Policy level

9.00-9.30Evaluation of Roma Integration Developments in Hungary
Nóra Teller Research Leader

Nándor Németh General Director

Consortium led byPannon.Elemző Iroda Ltd.

9.30-10.00Evaluation Study to collect Data for Result Indicators in the Human Capital Operational Programme in Poland

Karolina Jakubowska, PAG UniconsultPoland

10.00-10.30Overall Evaluation on Transport Developments: Hungary

György KukelyManaging Director, TerraStúdió Kft.

10.30-10.50 Coffee

10.50-12.20Session 5: the Role of Evaluation in Preparing the New 2014-2020 Round – implementation level

10.50-11.20 EU-wide Evaluation of Implementations Systems

Frederike Gross, European Policies Research Centre, Strathclyde, Scotland

11.20-11.50Overview of EU Funds Implementation System in Austria

Markus Gruber, ÖROK(tbc)

11.50-12.20Evaluation on EU Funds Implementation System in Finland

Kaisa Latheenmaki-Smith, Ramboll Consulting Finland

12.20-12.50Summary, closing

Kinga Kenyeres Deputy Director General, Managing Authority for Coordination, Hungarian National Development Agency

12.50-13.50Lunch

NDA reserves the right to change the programme.