1. Monitoring and Evaluation
Second International Seville Seminar on Future-Oriented Technology Analysis (FTA): Impacts on policy and decision making 28th- 29th September 2006
Workshop 3B
Monitoring and Evaluation

2. Proposals Futures for Universities
Convince relevant stakeholders of the need for evaluations
Learn from the evaluation community
Establish mechanisms for interaction and learning between the FTA and evaluation communities
Adopt good practices
Understand the rationale for evaluation
Establish relevant evaluation issues
Articulate verifiable objectives for different stakeholder groups
Identify relevant variables, indicators and measurement strategies
Prepare the ground for benchmarking
Go beyond customised, stand-alone evaluations
Compare similar and dissimilar FTA initiatives

3. Proposals Futures for Universities
Convince relevant stakeholders of the need for evaluations
Establish FTA notification scheme
Identify generic groups of stakeholders and develop arguments likely to persuade them of the merits of evaluation exercises and dispel their fears
Accountability
Value-for money
Learning
Process improvement
Cost reduction
Identification of opportunities and threats etc.
Devise mechanisms to ensure easy access to these arguments
Urge convinced stakeholders to promote/insist upon the evaluation of all FTA activities

4. Proposals Futures for Universities Learn from the evaluation community
Produce idiot’s guides to evaluation and FTA to improve the communication and sharing of basic terminology, concepts, practices etc.
Launch initiatives designed to bring both communities together
On-line discussion fora
Workshops
Working Groups etc.
Exploit the fact that there are already some overlaps between these communities by asking experts with established roles in both communities to play leading roles in these initiatives
Take advantage of a COST 22 window to invite evaluators and FDA specialists to discuss the evaluation of FDAs in Athens next year

5. Proposals Futures for Universities Adopt good practices
Identify good practices in the evaluation community and develop into generic guidelines
Set up working groups to identify context specific needs of FTA evaluations
Convince FTA commissioners to discuss evaluation and monitoring needs at the design stage
Include evaluation experts in strategy development teams