Centre for Research on Impact Evaluation (CRIE) 

2025 Evaluation Ready call

Under the Evaluation Ready initiative, CRIE launches occasional open calls where ESF Managing Authorities can apply for JRC researchers to do a CIE on an ESF+-funded interventions.

The call for applications is open until 30 April 2025. 

The full application open call can be found here.

2024 Evaluation Ready call

During the 2024 call, the following two projects were selected for JRC researchers to do a Counterfactual Impact Evaluation:
 

Latvia 

Public Employment Services (PES) vocational guidance services for unemployed and other groups. 

This policy provides career guidance counselling services aimed at improving employability and integration into the labor market. The consulations provide assistance in career planning, guidance on training opportunities, skills acquisition and job searching. The main goal of program is to increase the participation in other active labour market policies, particularly training measures, to reduce unemployment duration and overall to increase the employability of the participants.

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Cyprus 

School and Social Inclusion Actions (DRASE) 

The main aim of this project is to support students whose families face the risk of poverty and/or social exclusion, to ensure social welfare and to provide support for the economically weaker groups of population, to prevent and reduce early school leaving, to improve learning outcomes, to reduce school failure and  delinquency, strengthening the possibility of students to participate in alternative forms of education, as well as to enhance the inclusiveness of children with a migrant background. 

The results of the 2024 Evaluation Ready policy evaluation will be published in 2025.

If you would like to be informed about the opening of future Evaluation Ready calls, please email JRC-CRIE@ec.europa.eu

Previous evaluations

CRIE has carried out the following Counterfactual Impact Evaluations of ESF-funded policies across EU member states during the past years:

Belgium

• Work experience for Young Persons (WSF), Flanders

Czech Republic

• Support to Schools in Form of Simplified Reporting Projects -Templates for Nursery Schools and Primary Schools

Italy

• “Work experience Laureati e Laureate - WELL” (Work Experience for Graduates), Umbria

Ireland 

• JobsPlus programme

Latvia

• Vocational training under the Youth Guarantee programme

Portugal 

• Youth Employment Initiative (YEI)
• Higher education grant system for less privileged students