Conference topics

1. The role of R&D evaluation in building the ERA and strengthening competitiveness
   Relevance of Impact Assessment studies
   EU and EU-abroad experience with Impact Assessment of public financing of R&D&I
   State of Art of the Impact Assessment of large R&D programmes
   
   Presentations
   Stefan Kuhlmann, NL
   Julia Lane, USA
   Peter Fisch, EC, DG Research
   Ernst Th. Rietschel, DE
   
   
2. FP6 evaluation and impact assessment at EU and  national level
   DG INFSO ex-post evaluation of the FP6 IST programme
   National impact assessment studies: Spain, Sweden, Czech Republic
   
   Presentations
   Frank Cunningham, EC, DG INFSO
   Lennart Norgren, SE
   Montserrat Torne, ES
   Jiri Vanecek, CZ
   
   Poster section for studies of national participation in FPs, ex-ante, ex-post evaluation of national participation in the FPs and national FP Impact Studies
   
   
3. Principles and techniques for FP ex-post evaluation and impact assessment - two parallel sessions
   Session I - Principles of R&D programmes evaluation and impact assessment
   
   Presentations
   Heung Deug Hong, South Korea
   Erik Arnold, Technopolis
   Martin Weber (SR 9/2007), ECA
   
   Session II - Data, Indicators and Techniques for  measuring impact  of R&D programmes
   
   Presentations
   Pieter Van Nes, EC, JRC
   Benedetto Lepori, CH
   Vladimir Albrecht, CZ
   
   
4. Future of the FP- project-results-based - impact assessment
   
   
5. EUFORDIA conclusions and recommendations
   Final conclusions

PROGRAMME

Collection of EUFORDIA 2009 presentations will be available for the participants.

Instructions for speakers for submitting their papers can be downloaded here.