The international conference "Cohesion Policy 2014–2020: Towards Evidence Based Programming and Evaluation", which was organized by the Lithuanian Ministry of Finance and the European Commission's Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion took place on 4–5 July 2013 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
The conference discussions were held on programming and evaluation of EU Structural Funds in 2014–2020, including:
- new approach to the intervention logic and new requirements for programme monitoring and evaluation;
- methodological, organisational and procedural aspects of the evaluation of EU Structural Funds;
- results of ex-ante evaluations of operational programmes of the upcoming period.
This conference was one of the first Lithuanian EU Council presidency events. The conference brought together officials from Lithuania and other EU Member States, representatives of the EU institutions, responsible for programming, monitoring and evaluation of EU Structural Funds, representatives from academia, socio-economic partners and other stakeholders.
Please find here the conference programme, photos and conference summary.
Below you can find the conference presentations.
| DAY 1 |
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| Plenary session 1 | Result Orientation and Logic of Intervention in the Upcoming Programming Period | |
| Results and Performance for Cohesion Policy – a Step Change for the Future Veronica Gaffey, European Commission, DG REGIO, Antonella Schulte-Braucks, European Commission, DG EMPL Application of New Concepts in Programming: Lithuania's Experience Ramūnas Dilba, Ministry of Finance, Lithuania Stimulating Sustainable Growth Using Cohesion Policy: Realistic or a Holy Grail? Dr. John Bradley, EMDS Consulting, Ireland | ||
| Plenary session 2 | Role of the Ex-Ante Evaluation for Developing Operational Programmes | |
| Ex-ante Evaluation of the EU Structural Funds: the New Challenges of 2014–2020 Haroldas Brožaitis, PPMI, Lithuania Evidence-Based Programming – the Role of Ex-Ante Evaluations Paul Casey, Welsh Government, Welsh European Funding Office, United Kingdom Dr. Derek Jan Fikkers, Technopolis Group, The Netherlands | ||
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Plenary session 3 | Evaluation of Cohesion Policy after 2013: Need for More Robust Methods, Reliability and Availability of Data | |
| The Ex-Ante Evaluator: Super Hero or Ordinary Mortal? Prof. Michael Wiseman, The George Washington Institute of Public Policy, United States Experience of Counterfactual Impact Evaluation in the CZ OP HRE, Case of Enterprise Support Dr. Vladimir Kváča, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Dr. Oto Potluka, University of Economics Prague, Czech Republic Network Analysis as a Method of Evaluating Support of Enterprise Networks in ERDF Projects Tamás Lahdelma, Urban Research TA Ltd, Finland Measurement Approaches for Evaluation: We Get What We Measure Diana Eerma, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Tartu, Estonia | ||
| Parallel sessions | Challenges of the New Programming Period for the Programming and Evaluation of Cohesion Policy | |
| Programming (parallel session 4.1) | Evaluation (parallel session 4.2) | |
| Programming for 2014–20 and the Implications for Performance Prof. John Bachtler, European Policy Research Centre (EPRC), Strathclyde University,United Kingdom Eglė Saudargaitė, Ministry of Culture, Darius Žeruolis, ESTEP, Lithuania Lenka Sekyrova, Ministry for Regional Development, Czech Republic | Dr. Vitalis Nakrošis, PPMI, Danutė Burakienė, Ministry of Finance, Lithuania Krunoslav Karlovcec, Ministry of Economic Development and Technology, Slovenia 2003–2023 Brief History of Two Decades of Cohesion Policy Evaluation & Result Oriented Approach Stanislaw Bienias, Evaluation Expert, IDEA forDevelopment, Poland | |
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| Plenary session 5 | Experience and Lessons Learnt from Programming and Evaluation of the European Social Fund 2007–2013 | ||
| Overview of ESF Evaluations by Member States in the Current Programming Period Antonella Schulte-Braucks, European Commission, DG EMPL Dr. Egidijus Barcevičius, PPMI, Lithuania Gábor Balás, HÉTFA Research Institute, Hungary | |||
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Parallel sessions | Challenges and Needs for Programming and Evaluation in Different ESF Fields | ||
| Employment and Social Inclusion (parallel session 6.1) | Education and Life-Long Learning (parallel session 6.2) | Institutional Capacity and the Efficiency of Public Administrations (parallel session 6.3) | |
| Benedict Wauters, ESF Agency Flanders, Belgium José Manuel Fresno, Network of NGOs: Spanish Red Cross, Fundación ONCE, Fundación Secretariado Gitano, Caritas, Spain Impact Evaluation of an ESF-Funded ALMP for People with Disabilities Anna Adamecz, Budapest Institute, Hungary | Lessons Learned from Monitoring ESF Indicators During 2007–2013 Period: the Case of Higher Education Rima Rubčinskaitė, Vilnius University, International Business School, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center, Lithuania Supporting Cooperation of Education and Business – the Case of Vocational Education in Poland Agnieszka Rybińska, Institute of Educational Research, Poland Aline Pennisi, Ministry of Economy and INVALSI, Italy | Strengthening Institutional Capacity under the Future ESF Florian Hauser, European Commission, DG EMPL The Institutional Bottleneckand How to Avoid it Dr. Rolf Boehnke, AGEG, Germany Antanas Šabanas, Municipality of Birštonas, Lithuania | |
