LTA Impact, Monitoring & Evaluation – Final Event
Main Info
TCA Description
The LTA Impact, Monitoring & Evaluation, implemented by 12 NAs, consisted of a consensus debate on the concept of impact in relation to Erasmus+ and developing training and extension materials that NAs can use in their work with beneficiaries. The LTA started with an informed debate around the definition and concept of impact in relation to Erasmus+.
The final event will focus on the use of the outputs of the LTA by NA staff and beneficiaries / applicants.
During these 3 days, participants will be discussing the definition of impact in relation to their specific work environment and will be piloting the use of training materials and tools developed during the LTA.
The work sessions during the event will focus on the following topics
Designing for impact
Monitoring for impact
Communicating and disseminating impact
The event will have a very practical and hands-on nature. Short plenary sessions on definitions and concepts will be followed by a carrousel of workshops in which participants will be working with the application of tools and methods that enhance the understanding and application impact in project and mobility implementation.
After this event, participants:
Have developed a shared understanding of impact.
Understand the possibilities, but also limitations of working with impact in Erasmus+.
Have practiced with a selection of tools and methods that is relevant for their professional position.
Have exchanged experiences on impact management in projects and programmes.
Have celebrated the results of the LTA and have established future needs on this topic.
The event will start on Monday afternoon 23 November and will end with a joint lunch on Wednesday 25 November. The event will take place at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Antwerp, just outside the main train station. All participants will stay at Radisson Blu Hotel as well.
Partners and participants
NA staff involved in advising future applicants and beneficiaries of running Erasmus+ projects
Beneficiaries of running Erasmus+ projects
Future applicants of Erasmus+ projects
Pending booked places
Accepted places
TCA Participant Application
Research type Long-term Activity Info
The commission places great emphasis on the importance of impact of the Erasmus programme. Applicant organisations and National Agencies are challenged to increase the quality and visibility of programme results. Considering the reach of the Erasmus programme in terms of its (inter) national context, priorities, education sectors and funding modalities impact can come in many different shapes and forms. Recognising what impact is in a specific context and determining an impact approach that supports the further development of impact is a challenging task for all stakeholders involved.
This long term TCA aims at a systemic change in the way NA’s applicant organisations and experts design, implement and monitor projects and mobilities, it seeks to develop skills, tools and attitudes that enable NA staff, assessors, and beneficiary organisations to improve the programme’s effectiveness. In doing so it recognises the mutual dependency that exists between the stakeholders in achieving programme results, and the joint effort that is needed to develop and implement, a coherent, impact driven programme.
The outcome of this process will be a mutual understanding of what impact is, supporting tools that help ensure that impact is an integral part of project design and insights into research methods and research results that are useful in designing and measuring for impact.
To arrive at a systemic change in the way NA’s applicant organisations and experts design, implement and monitor projects and mobilities, it seeks to develop skills, tools and attitudes that enable NA staff, assessors, and beneficiary organisations to improve the programme’s effectiveness. In doing so it recognises the mutual dependency that exists between the stakeholders in achieving programme results, and the joint effort that is needed to develop and implement, a coherent, impact driven programme.
2022:
- Project meetings.
- Setting-up structure for LTA; study into need for impact support and training design.
- Training design and collection of current tools in use by NAs.
2023-2025:
- Training sessions impact, monitoring and evaluation for stakeholders (in 2023 impact and monitoring training events for LTA partners only).
- Implementation study on research design.
- Development of impact tool package.
2025-2026:
- Dissemination workshop reiterating research findings and LTA outputs to wider audience.
Outputs
Three transnational studies :
· - A study analysing context specific need for impact support mechanisms in participating countries
· - A study leading to the development of research guide for impact in E+.
· - A study leading to the development of a communication and dissemination guide for impact results.
National level studies and methods translated and disseminated to wider E+ community
Further development of supporting e-tools for project design and monitoring for NA’s, assessors, beneficiary organisations of running projects.
Thematic workshops for E+ beneficiaries, applicants, NA Staff and external experts improving their ability to proactively drive programme results.
A conference to synthesize and disseminate the output of the TCA
Expected outcomes
· Understanding of the nature and development of outcome and impact level results in the context of E+. Extended use of national research results E+ community.
· Relevant design and monitoring tools and research methods for impact.
· E+ stakeholders understand their roles and responsibilities with regard to the development of programme results and jointly work towards better impact of the programme.
· E+ stakeholders are better able to steer towards better programme results through planning and monitoring. Impact approaches internalized in participating NA’s