The project aims at supporting organisations focused on enhancing youth employment and entrepreneurship to develop tailored impact evaluation strategies. We also focus on creating transnational expert network to increase know-how in the field of impact evaluation, and on encouraging excellence in impact studies among young researchers.
Starting point of our project was to undertake research and draw up a report on existing evaluation standards and practices in partner countries – Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland. The work was led by the German expert partner and it served as a foundation for design and development of following outputs: practical tools, e-learnings and workshops created to support the organisations to develop their evaluation competences.
The toolkit „Your leverage to better youth employment projects“ and e-learning “Towards better youth employment projects” are published on the project platform in 4 language versions. The first round of workshops took place with a great success. More than 70 participants underlined the necessity of such activity in the field of impact evaluation and they claimed to learn much more than they have expected.
Currently we are finishing the toolkit and blended-learning under the entrepreneurship evaluation package. We have also started research on how to adjust the tools for organisations working with the specific age group: 25-29 years old. We organise sets of round tables in each country, involved experts are also authors of experts’ studies. This year the Research Excellence Programme was launched – cooperating evaluators will select in total 10 young researchers in each country to lead them in their impact evaluation studies.
Results of the project will be presented during the conferences in every country. Outputs of our project are continuously presented on project platform and promoted via Facebook page.