agriregionieuropa Ancona, February Martina Bolli -E-VALPROG – E-learning course on the Evaluation of Rural Development Programmes EAAE Seminar "Evidence-Based Agricultural and Rural Policy Making: Methodological and Empirical Challenges of Policy Evaluation", Ancona February 17 th -18 th

agriregionieuropa Ancona, February Martina Bolli Aims and beneficiaries Disseminating basic knowledge on the theory of evaluation; providing tools and information to better organize the evaluation activities; contributing to the creation of a shared vision on evaluation as fundamental activity; raising awareness on the role that actors can play in evaluation processes; foster a more conscious participation of people to the issues of rural development. Regional administrations and managing authorities; Socio economic partners; Actors interested in evaluation and rural development policy (teachers, researchers, students, farmers, etc.)

agriregionieuropa Ancona, February Martina Bolli Didactic methodologies access to classes and all other services of the course is free and always available. entry and verification tests for each module; bibliographic references; tutorial support; each lesson is conducted by an expert of the subject basic computer skills E- Valprog will be made available on the websites of the National Rural Network ( ) and Agriregionieuropa ( ) and, may be used in university and other training courses.

agriregionieuropa Ancona, February Martina Bolli Outline 10 modules split into three parts: 1.Evaluation: approaches, methodologies, techniques 2.The evaluation of the RD in the UE 3.The monitoring of the RD in the UE Basic knowledge about EU RD policies is necessary

agriregionieuropa Ancona, February Martina Bolli Contact us Martina Bolli. INEA Researcher– RRN Task force Monitoring and Evaluation it Vincenzo Fucilli. Researcher and professor at the Faculty of Agriculture of Bari University. Antonello Lobianco. Depart. Economics - Polytechnic University of Marche