Events

Problem and purpose

As we speak, we all notice an increasing interview fatigue resulting in low response rates, also in research in Erasmus+. This may endanger not only accountability but also impact research on the program Erasmus+. As such, we would like to find new ways to address this issue.

To attract relevant participants, the conference will be organized around relevant actual Erasmus+ content, amongst which for example the four horizontal priorities. These concepts are, as well as the concept of ‘European Values’ hard to grasp in a methodological way while keeping the flexibility of these concepts high and keeping rigid, inflexible, or bureaucratic operationalisations of these concepts low. To conclude, we need valid, science based innovative ways to measure motion, progress and impact in an appealing way.

Conference intentions: exploring and exchanging possibilities in Erasmus+ research

We intend to organize a conference on improving response rates in (impact) research (TCA). Though ambitions for international comparative quantitative and qualitative studies increase, National Agencies, (as well as other research in the educational area) are increasingly faced with low response rates. As such, we want to explore:

1. The options to improve quantitative response rates, both for accountability reasons, to measure impact and to gain scientific insight in developments concerning our areas of interest for educational, policy-effectiveness, impact, or other legitimate reasons.
2. The options to share and develop qualitative and/or explorative science based methodological alternatives to gain in depth insight in the features concerning the program Erasmus+ in a broad sense, for the reasons described above.
3. The making an inventory of appealing research worthy purposes together with potential stakeholders, whom we may need to cooperate in gathering research data (both qualitative and quantitative).
4. Appealing opportunities to stress the necessity to Erasmus+ beneficiaries to participate in research as part of a mutual relationship deriving from working with Erasmus+ (as a kind of moral obligation to provide information in exchange for receiving Erasmus+ funding).

Researchers of NAs, scientific staff of universities and public (data gathering) research organisations (KU Leuven, UU, etc. Eurydice, NRO, Unesco, OECD, PISA as well as our subcontractors ResearchNed, OckhamIPS, Dialogic, etc), national and international relevant stakeholders.