At the beginning of October, EDUCULT took part in the last steering group meeting in Brussels. Together with our partner organisation PPMI (Vilnius) and representatives of the Directorate General "Education and Culture", we presented and discussed the draft of the final reports. Now we will begin finalising these reports in the last phase of the evaluation.
The aim of the evaluation is to assess the implementation of the European Heritage Label (EHL) action from its creation in 2011 until 2017. As an interim evaluation, its purpose is to take stock of the achievements in the first six years of the action’s existence with an eye for potential improvements in future implementation. The evaluation assesses the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, coherence and EU added value of the action.
The qualitative and quantitative data collection methods of the study include desk research, open public consultations at the European level as well as interviews and focus groups on the selected sites. These data collection methods are inherently intertwined and adaptation and review of the implementation of the methods is being ensured throughout the whole evaluation process. The quality assurance are meant to lay the grounds for safeguarding the quality and coherence of the data collection process, by making sure that also the field study across the 10 in-depth cases follow the same logic and allow the core team making meaningful comparisons and synthesis of findings.
Due to the character of evaluation questions, interviews and focus groups will be a central instrument of data collection in evaluating the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, coherence and EU added value of the EHL action. The added value of the planned interviews and focus groups is to provide data on motivational, qualitative and societal aspects of the EHL action that can only be hardly obtained in another way.
Picture: “Ancient Roman amphitheatre in Petronell-Carnuntum, Austria” by Pudelek (Marcin Szala). Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped from original picture
Duration: November 2017 - November 2018
Client: European Commission
Partner: PPMI
Contact: aron.weigl(at)educult.at
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