EASY-ECO Conference
Sustainable Development Evaluations in Europe: From a Decade of Practices, Politics and Science to Emerging Demands
 

The 2010 EASY-ECO conference in Brussels will firmly focus on the European perspective of evaluation of sustainable development (SD), taking stock of almost a decade of the EASY-ECO programme and SD evaluation practice at EU- and national levels in order to identify – with important European actors – the challenges ahead.

The conference is organised by Tom Bauler at the Free University Brussels (Université Libre de Bruxelles, ULB), and will take place in Brussels in the European Parliament, the Palais des Sciences, and the ULB, Campus Solbosch, on 17-19 November 2010. The call for papers has been published at the EASY-ECO website. Applications for EU Grants to cover the costs of participation are open until 15 May, 2010.

Key topics include: SD evaluation in the policy-making process; tools and instruments for the European Commission’s Impact Assessment (CEC-IA); SD and the evaluation of external dimensions of EU policies; SD evaluation and monitoring processes of the EU strategies; supporting vertical integration for multi-level governance through evaluation; horizontal collaboration in SD evaluation; role of municipalities and regions in advancing SD evaluation practice; diffusion of SD evaluation standards across international institutions; contribution of SD evaluation to good governance.