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 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.

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.

This evaluation has been commissioned by the European commission in the context of the framework contract signed between DG EMPLOYMENT and Ramboll Management in association wirh Matrix and Eureval. In September 2009, the Commission has launched this evaluation in order to assess the contribution of the European social fund (ESF) to the European employment strategy (EES). The evaluation is expected to provide recommendation for the Commisson to improve its instruments, and in particular the ESF, which contribute to EES objectives. The evaluation focuses both on direct contribution of the ESF to the EES and on the coordination between the ESF and the open method of coordination. In that regard, the evaluation will pay particular attention to governance arrangement at national level. The method used consist to the preparation of one report by Member state, Case studies and a Delphi survey.

The main objective is to provide an external and independent interim evaluation of the MEDIA 2007 programme. The study will have to assess if the objectives of the programme are still adapted to the needs of the European audiovisual sector, and its European added-value. It will also consider the efficiency of the management and the good implementation of the programme. Above all, the evaluation will verify if the first results are supporting the intervention logic of the programme and will try to estimate the likelihood of generating the broader impacts expected by the programme. The evaluation has a prospective approach and should support future adjustments.

The phenomenon of ageing population is accelerating. For forty years, the authorities have been developing policies that permitted building a plan to support seniors suffering from incapacitating pathologies due to their age. Because of their competence in “social action and aids”, the Conseils Généraux (General Councils) are in charge of the implementation of these politics.
Thus, the Loiret General Council wishes to evaluate its departmental policy, and especially its departmental scheme (2004-2009) in favor of seniors.
The elements at stake in this evaluation are:
- The appreciation of the collectivity’s intervention considering the expectations and the needs of the beneficiaries.
- Measuring the adequacy between objectives and the results that were obtained and the means rallied.
- Finding paths of amelioration and actions to respond to the evolution of expectations and needs.

AGIR policy aims to promote renewable energy and energy savings in the Region Provence-Alpes-Cote-d'Azur. The mission has to evaluate relevance to the needs, effectiveness, internal coherence within the Regional council and external coherence with the main stakeholders involved in the field of energy in the region. The mission goes from january to december 2009 and is divided into 4 phases (inception, overall  diagnosis, indept analysis and recommendations).