The training will be offered to two target groups:

• Potential or current evaluation experts.
• Programme owners.

The training mainly targets:

• Junior experts
• Senior experts

Number of trainees:

A total of 30  trainees are expected to participate in the training (18 from Serbia and 12  from the invited countries). 

Application

EVAL-INNO announces the training opportunity publicly and applications from both target groups as described above are most welcome. In addition those current and potential evaluators and managing authorities who have been identified during the project and/or mapped with a template at the website (RTDI Evaluation section) have been invited explicitly.

Please note the following eligibility rules:

• Participants should have country of residence or employment either in Croatia, Slovenia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia.    
• Participants (of both groups) should work fully or part-time at any type of organisation that is  engaged  in  developing  and/or  promoting  RTDI.  Examples  of  such  organisations  are ministries, chambers of commerce, state agencies, innovation councils, scientific unions, industrial  associations,  clusters,  science  parks,  incubators,  laboratories,  centres  of research, universities etc. 
• Please  note:  University  students  are  not  eligible  to  participate  as  trainees  in  the  course, unless they are fully or part-time employed at university. For the target group of evaluators, university staff is eligible to participate as trainees, in order to increase their knowledge on RTDI evaluation e.g. for the purpose of the university. 

The language of the course is English.

Deadline for applications: 23 September 2013. Applicants will be notified of the nomination process at the beginning of October 2013.

Before the application kindly read carefully the file Agenda & Rules for covered expenses & attendance in Belgrade, which contains important details: Agenda_and_Rules_Belgrade.pdf

If you would like to apply for the RTDI evaluation training in Belgrade, please return the filled in Registration Form to lazar.zivkovic@pupin.rs: Registration_form_Belgrade.xls

Please note: By filling in the registration form you declare your commitment to participate in all sessions of the training course (5 days for Group 1: Potential or current evaluation experts or 4 days for Group 2: Programme owners). Please, also note that certificates will be provided  only to the participants that were present in 100% of the training sessions and the exercises.