1. CRIE activities in 2017 ESF Partnership Meeting 15 March 2017
Agnieszka BIELSKA DECUGNIERE, DG EMPL, Unit.G4
Giulia SANTANGELO, JRC, CRIE
ESF Partnership Meeting
15 March 2017

2. Outline Community of Practice Data fitness initiative
Feasibility and ESF impact study
CIE market

3. Community of Practice on CIE in 2017
Day-to-day direct (virtual) contact : web forum dedicated to CIE on Yammer
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Web resources for CIE
Regular meetings: face to face exchanges (June and November 2017)
Customized support: you can seek further collaboration schemes with CRIE

4. Community of Practice on CIE: web resources for CIE evaluation
Sample size calculator
Video-tutorials on CIE fundamentals
Drafting Terms of Reference for CIE
Tips and tricks on intervention design
Data collection
Using and communicating results of CIE
Followed by 3 (optional) weekly conference calls with CRIE experts
providing hands-on advice linked to video-tutorial theme and your ongoing work
Guidance documents, papers, FAQ, past seminars, design of surveys and sample size, videotutorials,…

5. Community of Practice on CIE: Regular meetings – Spring 2017
8-9 June, Riga, Latvia
Draft agenda
How to combine CIE with other methods
2018 YEI evaluation – showcase ongoing work
Data fitness – presentation of LV evaluation and 2017 winners
'Meet your expert' – discuss your planned or ongoing CIEs with CRIE members, academics, consultants,…
Training session on practical application of CIE methods in ESF evaluation
Followed by 5 optional conference calls with CRIE experts
!!! Bring your PCs, ToRs, questions, etc (…)

6. Community of Practice on CIE: Customized support
Opportunities for further bilateral support in conducting ESF evaluations
Upon request from Managing Authority
On-site 2-day visit by 1-2 CRIE experts

7. Data Fitness Initiative for CIE
Promotion of the use of CIE
for the assessment of
ESF-funded interventions;
selection of a suitable ESF
intervention to conduct a CIE;
collaboration between CRIE
and Managing Authorities (MAs)
on evaluations foreseen in
their Evaluation Plan.

8. Data Fitness Initiative for CIE 2016 - Italy
WELL Work Experience for Graduates
Type: on-the-job training for graduates; incentive to firms and host organizations
Objective: increasing employability of graduates 
Eligibility: being graduated, unemployed, resident in Umbria 
Duration: March April 2010
Financing source: ESF
Participants: 14 projects selected for a total of 111 firms
Data: administrative data sources on intervention participation, employment status and contracts
Method: Propensity Score Matching

9. Youth Guarantee Vocational Training Programme
Data Fitness Initiative for CIE Latvia
Youth Guarantee Vocational Training Programme
Type: vocational training to promote sustainable and quality employment
Objective: increasing competitiveness of unemployed youth and promoting employability
Eligibility: NEETs aged (priority) and 25-29
Duration: ongoing since 01/04/2014
Financing source: ESF + YEI + State Budget
Participants: 2000 young employed
Data: administrative data (intervention participation, employment status and income)
Method: Regression Discontinuity Design
Age (measured in days) of participants

10. Data Fitness Initiative for CIE 2017
Two-type support to ESF MAs:
accompany two 'data-ready' MAs with CIE;
accompany five other prospective applicants in getting 'data-ready' for future CIE evaluations.
D4C-READY: ESF MAs are invited to provide CRIE with the data that are needed for carrying out a well-designed CIE of a specific ESF funded intervention
D4C-FUTURE: ESF MAs will be guided by CRIE through the year in the data collection and/or data linkage procedures to be ready for a CIE study in 2018

11. Data Fitness Initiative for CIE 2017
Phase 1 (January 4 – February 6, 2017)
online questionnaire
ESF intervention documentation
Phase 2 (February 7 – March 6, 2017)
D4C-READY: data codebook
D4C-FUTURE: detailed description of the potential data sources available for the CIE evaluation.

12. D4C-READY 2017 1. Youth Guarantee Scheme
Active labour market programme, traineeship and entrepreneurship scheme
Managing Authority for Economic Development Programmes
Ministry for National Economy
Department for Labour Market Programmes
Hungary
2. Work for Youth
Labour market services
Flemish Ministry of Employment and Social Economy
ESF Department
Belgium

13. D4C-FUTURE 2017
1. Human Capital interventions for young NEETs employment
Training programmes and labour market services
Ministry of Regional Development, Public Administration and European Funds
Romania
2. Supporting institutions endangered by high ratio of early school leaving
Education programmes to avoid early school leaving
Minister's Office, Monitoring and Evaluation Department
Hungary

14. D4C-FUTURE 2017 3. Work experience for young people Training programme
Basilicata Region
Italy
4. Higher education scholarships and advanced training
Education, training and vocational training for skills and life-long learning
Human Capital Operational Programme
Portugal

15. D4C-FUTURE 2017
5: ???
Any other participants interested in having some guidance in the data collection and/or data linkage procedures to be ready for
a CIE study in 2018?

16. Feasibility and ESF impact study
Feasibility of CIE of overall ESF impact
Programming Periods:
Outcomes of interest:
growth and productivity
employment
poverty and inequality
human capital accumulation

17. CIE Market
Facilitating the outsourcing of CIE of ESF funded interventions;
improving the exchange of information and requests between the MAs, on the demand side, and the researchers and evaluators, on the supply side.
Portal:
Terms of References (ToRs) of the evaluations foreseen by the MAs from all the Member States;
list of researchers and evaluators from all Member States that propose their expertise to support the MAs.

18. CIE Market
Any new ToR to be published on CRIE website to reach a broader audience in a single European market for CIE across borders?

19. Stay in touch CRIE website: crie.jrc.ec.europa.eu
YouTube: JRC CRIE