1. agriregionieuropa Ancona, February 17 -18Martina 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

2. agriregionieuropa Ancona, February 17 -18Martina 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.)

3. agriregionieuropa Ancona, February 17 -18Martina 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 (www.reterurale.it ) and Agriregionieuropa (www.agriregionieuropa.it ) and, may be used in university and other training courses.www.reterurale.itwww.agriregionieuropa.it

4. agriregionieuropa Ancona, February 17 -18Martina 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

5. agriregionieuropa Ancona, February 17 -18Martina Bolli Contact us Martina Bolli. INEA Researcher– RRN Task force Monitoring and Evaluation bolli@inea. itbolli@inea. it Vincenzo Fucilli. Researcher and professor at the Faculty of Agriculture of Bari University. v.fucilli@agr.uniba.it v.fucilli@agr.uniba.it Antonello Lobianco. Depart. Economics - Polytechnic University of Marche antonello@lobianco.org antonello@lobianco.org