Background

The 'Conf-Shop' was not a traditional conference, but a conference and a workshop combining presentations with active involvement from the participants and providing the occasion for a real engagement. In particular, all the participants were invited, through a poster survey, to express their views on the impacts of FP7, and on the challenges for a future evaluation and monitoring system under Horizon 2020. Almost 100 participants from the fields of research evaluation and research management attended the event.

This event addressed three interrelated issues:

• An overview on recent efforts to assess the longer term impact of the Framework Programme;
• Reflections from practitioners on the evaluation of FP7;
• Views from experts and stakeholders on the challenges for an evaluation and monitoring system for the Horizon 2020 Programme.

Further information, a summary note of the main points of the discussion, the outcomes of the poster survey and few pictures of the event are available here.

Source: DG Research and Innovation

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