DIRECTORATE-GENERAL REGIONAL AND URBAN POLICY – "EVALUATION NETWORK MEETING"

Brussels, 15-16 JANUARY 2015

Agenda

* 15 January 2015 *

Venue: ALBERT BORSCHETTE Conference Centre, rue Froissart 36, Brussels – CCAB – Room AB-4B

09.00-09.30: Registration* and coffee

1.  OPENING REMARKS

09.30-09.45:

Ø  Approval of the agenda and the minutes of the last meeting

Kai Stryczynski, Deputy Head of the Evaluation and European Semester Unit, DG REGIO

2.  2007-2013 EX POST EVALUATION: State of play

09.45-11.15:

Coordination: Kai Stryczynski, Evaluation and European Semester Unit, DG REGIO

Followed by discussion involving Evaluation Network Members

Member States will be updated on the different work packages. Network members are asked to encourage Managing Authorities to cooperate with the evaluators of the ex post evaluation exercise. Participants are also asked to provide information on evaluations underway or completed in 2013 / 2014, including the expected completion date, to feed into the ex post evaluation and to be summarised/reviewed by the Evaluation Helpdesk.

11.15-11.30: COFFEE BREAK

3.  2007-2013 EX POST EVALUATION: Work package zero

11.30-12.30:

Ø  Main findings of Work Package Zero on Data reported by 2007-2013 Programmes: Core indicators, Common Indicators, Major Projects and Other significant achievements

Presentation: Giovanni Familiari, t33 (contractor for Work Package Zero)

Followed by discussion involving Evaluation Network Members

12.30-14.00: LUNCH BREAK

4.  2013 ANNUAL IMPLEMENTATION REPORTS

14.00-15.00:

Ø  Further discussion on data transmitted by the Member States: publication of 2013 data, 2014 annual implementation reports , categories of expenditure

Presentation: John Walsh, Evaluation and European Semester Unit, DG REGIO

Followed by discussion involving Evaluation Network Members

5.  COMPETITION FOR GOOD EVALUATIONS – 2016 EVALUATION CONFERENCE

15.00-15.30:

Ø  Discussion on competition for good evaluations and 2016 Evaluation Conference

Presentation: Kai Stryczynski, Deputy Head of the Evaluation and European Semester Unit, DG REGIO

Followed by discussion involving Evaluation Network Members

15.30-15.45: COFFEE BREAK

6.  DG COMP EVALUATION PROPOSAL – STATE AID

15.45-16.15:

Ø  Presentation of evaluation proposal for comments / synergies with other evaluations

Presentation: Rodrigo Peduzzi, State Aid Strategy Unit, DG COMP

7.  2015 EVALUATION ACTIVITIES

16.15-17.00:

Ø  Presentation on evaluation activities foreseen in 2015, including Ex post evaluation WP15: Communication, Evaluation Helpdesk

Coordination: Kai Stryczynski, Deputy Head of the Evaluation and European Semester Unit, DG REGIO

Followed by discussion involving Evaluation Network Members

8.  CLOSING REMARKS

17.00-17.30:

Ø  Exchange of information on monitoring and evaluation activities in Member States

The Evaluation Network Members are invited to report on recent and upcoming activities

17.30-18.30: COCKTAIL offered by the Commission

* 16 January 2015 *

Venue: ALBERT BORSCHETTE Conference Centre, rue Froissart 36, Brussels – CCAB – Room AB-4B

09.00-09.30: Registration and coffee

9.  2014-2020 OPERATIONAL PROGRAMMES: Dialogue / Adoptions

09.30-11.00:

Ø  2014-2020 Operational Programmes

Coordination: Evaluation and European Semester Unit, DG REGIO

Feedback by REGIO on the negotiations (indicators and performance frameworks), including on encoding data in SFC, aggregate outcomes. Information on intervention logic pilots and contribution to Art. 16 report.

An active discussion is foreseen – Evaluation Network members are invited to report on progress in the.negotiation procedures, next steps as well as any challenges they may have encountered.

11.00-11.15: COFFEE BREAK

10. 2014-2020 EVALUATION PLANS

11.15-12.15:

Ø  DG REGIO's Approach for Analysing evaluation plans

Kai Stryczynski, Acting Head of the Evaluation and European Semester Unit, DG REGIO

Ø  What makes a good evaluation plan?

Presentation: Elliot Stern, Emeritus Professor of Evaluation Research, Lancaster University

11. CLOSING REMARKS

12.15-12.30:

Ø  Conclusions of the meeting

Kai Stryczynski, Deputy Head of the Evaluation and European Semester Unit, DG REGIO

* Registration of the persons who confirmed participation as indicated on the invitation letter.

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