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The Foundation for the Development of the Education System with its over twenty-year-long history of administering European educational programmes - starting from TESSA, TERM, SMART funded by PHARE, through Socrates, Youth for Europe, Lifelong Learning Programme and Youth in Action to current Erasmus+ - has played an important role in making an educational change in Poland. Our achievements do not involve only the numbers of effectively implemented projects. One of the key areas of the Foundation's activity, recently developed, is analytical and research work, which focuses on measuring the impact and results of the European programmes including above all - the Erasmus+. Paweł Poszytek PhD, General Director Foundation for the Development of the Education System
The FDES participates in international and national education research projects, cooperates with other national Erasmus+ agencies and foreign research institutes. Research on European programmes allows us to assess their actual outcomes, both on individual participants and institutions as well as environments they are rooted in. The solid, collected data and in-depth analysis, which we believe in, are the foundation of any informed discussion about the development of education policy at all levels. The following publication collects papers of participants of the first-ever seminar on evidenced-based policy in Erasmus+, which the Foundation was happy to organise in October 2017. I recommend all readers interested in the role of research in education to have a look at this extensive amount of valuable input, which we hope will contribute to further development of the research practice. Pawel Poszytek General Director Foundation for the Development of the Education System
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