DG EMPLOYEMENT wishes to establish a template to report annually on the use and implementation of the European Social Fund (ESF) at EU level.  The annual report will present a battery of output and result indicators common to the 117 operational programmes and covering the main domains and types of intervention of the ESF.
In order to prepare the 2008 report and build this set of common indicators, a review of all the 117 ESF will be carried out in the official languages of all 27 member states.  Together with the 2008 report, Eureval will also produce a template of the implementation report for the following years. Finally, Euréval will design and structure the process through which each Member State’s annual implementation report will automatically feed into the Commission’s reporting exercises in the future.
Euréval is the leader of a team involving consultants from Ramboll Management, Ecorys and a dozen of subcontractors in different European countries.

In order to comply with the European Commission’s most recent directions in terms of evaluation practice, the Information Society and Media Directorate General (DG INFSO) wishes to develop a Manual providing guidance for evaluating legislation and non-expenditure instruments in the area of Information Society and Media. The manual should take into account existing guides and toolboxes and address the following tasks: “selecting an evaluation design, collecting data, analyzing data and conducting a meta analysis". Our methodology will consist in a desk research followed by an analysis of DG INFSO’s legal obligations regarding evaluation of legislation and non spending policies. A panel of experts will back up the analysis and the redaction of the manual itself.

This evaluation has been commissioned by the European commission in the context of the framework contract signed between DG EMPLOYMENT and Eureval in association with Ramboll Management and Ecorys. The main objective is to provide geographical desks with better information on how the delivery systems of the ESF work. In particular what is the influence of the formal framework of delivery systems (official procedures) and the “de facto” features of it (local interpretations and practices). The objective is to determine a successful way to attract and support OP target groups. The analysis will be based on an empirical study of a selection of 20 OPs including desk analysis in a first place and an in-depth field investigation (interviews, data base of good practices and workshops) in a second place.

The mission aims at evaluating the 9th programme aids  of the Water Agency regarding the reduction of the nitrates coming from agriculture. The evaluation will respond to two main objectives: provide an evaluative analysis for the period 2007-2009 with regard evaluation criteria such as effectiveness, relevance, and external coherence; provide recommendations to improve the agency aids.

The Union of Health Insurance Funds (URCAM) of the Nord-Pas de Calais Region wishes to evaluate the relevance, effectiveness and the effects of its prevention programme against the Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), which was also partially financed by the 2007-2011 Regional Public Health Plan.
The Nord-Pas de Calais region is particularly affected by the FAS: each year around 500 children suffer the effects of alcohol consumption and 150 are hit by the FAS specifically. As a consequence, the URCAM Nord-Pas de Calais has developed a primary prevention programme addressed to the public at large as well as professionals in the health, social and early childhood fields.
This assignment aimed at evaluating the implementation of the regional action over the 2007-2009 period. Therefore its field of investigation was:
-The relevance and effectiveness of the regional action
-The relevance and pertinence of its means of implementation
-The action’s impact on the public at large and professionals.

To prepare the Active Ageing European Year, DG EMPL needed a synthesis of what was learned from previous similar European and World years. Euréval did that synthesis, and emphasised on the good practices of previous years.
The synthesis was then integrated in the Impact Assessment of the European Year.

This mission aims at evaluating the framework contracts signed between the French agency for environment and energy and the various french regions for the period 2007-2013. This evaluation considers the period 2007-2009. The objectives are to provide a general overview of the period 2007-2009 and to give a strategic analysis in order to improve the governance and to adapt to content of the contractualisations for the next period.

The Water Agency Adour-Garonne wishes to design its evaluation plan for the 2010-2015 period. Our mission is to bring assistance to the Evalutation department to build an evaluation system that is accepted by  all and which guarantees independence, expertise, transparency and pluralism.
The mission had three purposes: the first one is to increase the Direction committee’s awareness of policy evaluation. The second is to implement an evaluation system highlighting the issues, the goals and the internal organization. The last one is to set up a calendar and themes for future evaluations.

DG TRANSLATION wishes to conduct an evaluation to know the role, the function and impact of translation on the European society as whole, beyond the European institutions. The evaluation will investigate different fields : economic, cultural, legal and political. Besides the cognitive dimension, the study has a prospective outreach feeding an ongoing reflection on DG TRANSLATION’s role on the European scene.

Through this study, the European Commission (DG EMPL) intends to make a series of important inputs into the design of the next programmes of the European Social Fund (ESF) which will come to birth in 2014. Knowing that the ESF supports thousands of training activities per year across Europe, the study assesses the return on such investments in terms of benefits for the participants, for the employers, and for the society at large. A literature review is intended to synthesise the lessons learned and to identify the knowledge gaps, under the scrutiny of a panel of experts. In addition the study reviewed the whole range of relevant quantitative methods (randomised controlled trials, econometric approaches, models, cost-benefit analysis), and tested some of them on the basis of individual information on participants and non-participants in four countries. The study is due to suggest policy priorities as regards the various types of human capital investment, and to recommend evaluation approaches that might accelerate the pace of learning and transferring lessons. The works are led by Euréval in cooperation with Ecorys and Rambøll-Management.