Evidence-based policy in Erasmus+
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Methodological framing for the Erasmus+ Impacts Observatory By Arnaud de Champris Arnaud de Champris,
Abstract The Erasmus+ France / Education & Training Agency aims to settle the conditions of an actual evaluation of Erasmus+ impacts. Here, the numerous and diverse audiences of education and training, and not of the Youth Program, are involved. This issue being shared by all the institutions which, in France, finance mobility, the conception of an Impacts Observatory was doubly justified. By bringing together these various actors, the Observatory has defined fundamental evaluation issues, analysed common expected impacts, and proposed 21 elementary indicators. The core methodological challenge is to enable the post-mobility follow-up of individuals, at a given frequency. Thus, it is necessary to have large statistic bodies. In accordance with this order a project aimed at designing an online platform which allows this follow-up is here presented. This project is now intended to be operational.
in 1990 created the firm E.C.s. specialising in the evaluation and long-term forecasting of public policies; the firm has presented nearly 200 references to all types of public sponsors. Between 2007 and 2010 he was the Vice-President of the French Evaluation Society. He held a Doctorate in Humanities awarded by Paris IV Sorbonne.
I. The Erasmus+ impact observatory I.1 The process: federating around shared knowledge he Erasmus Agency’s initiative + Education/Training T at the heart of a concern shared by mobility policies Following on from the “Better Regulation” initiative adopted in May 2015, which aims to introduce guarantees into legislation so that European Union interventions are more effective, transparent and targeted, the European Commission is calling for impact assessments to be carried out for its various programmes. It wants to demonstrate the causality of European funding on changes produced by programmes in line with their objectives. To this end, the Erasmus+ France / Education & Training Agency has launched the process of creating an “Erasmus+ National Impact Observatory”, in order to broaden the scope of the data collected, to pool impact assessment efforts and to increase the effectiveness of the dissemination of results. The Observatory should
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KEYWORDS education, mobility, training, impacts, evaluation,
internationalisation,
personal development, skills,
European
integration, staff mobility, student mobility.
