Project Events
The main events in the Action Plan are:
1. Project Kick-off Meeting – 22-24 October 2014, Bucharest, Romania
The two-day event took place on RoSE Headquarters in Bucharest.
The first day, the Project Kick-off Meeting gathered the stakeholders that have expressed their interest to take active part in Project activities. The Project Coordinator has presented the project and thereafter both partner organizations, MEN si RoSE, presented themselves with respect to their mission and achievements, national background and the identified needs for their institutional development. The discussions and debates were fruitful and productive for the next developments planned under the project.
The second day was dedicated to the project teams that update the work plan, the methodology and share responsibilities and tasks. The meeting has been concluded through a Minute that records the agreement on the specific project implementation approach..
2. Workshop on evaluation framework – 15-16 November 2014, Skopje, Macedonia
The two-day event took place on BASME (MENs Member Organization) Headquarters in Skopje.
In the first day, MEN/MCA2000, as host organization, invited the representatives of the twin Project P2P RI-MEN – ‘Regional integration of Macedonian Evaluation Network’, in order to identify potential cooperation and networking opportunities. RoSE representatives have delivered presentations on the occupational framework and on the professional competencies with respect to evaluation in Romania. MEN/MCA2000 presented the background of occupational framework in Macedonia and their proposals for enhancing competences in evaluation.
The second day the project teams worked together and agreed through a Minute on the next project developments.
3. Workshop on evaluation framework – 6-7 March 2015, Bucharest, Romania
The two-day event took place on RoSE Headquarters in Bucharest.
The first day the participants agreed on the Agenda of the Meeting, assessed the status of the project and assigned responsibilities for concluding the pending project deliverables, according to the project schedule.
In line with the agreed Workshop Agenda the project teams finalized the data base structure for the evaluators’ network, drafted a release of the Strategy and Action Plan for promoting the evaluation in Macedonia, identified opportunities and set approaches for training assignments among partner organizations in order to ensure project sustainability. At the end of the meeting they signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the next year. The MoU is available here.
The Workshop results are registered in the Minute of the meeting.
4. Final Conference, Skopje, Macedonia – 30 March 2015, Skopje, Macedonia
The event took place in Continental Hotel in Skopje.
In the Project Final Conference have been invited stakeholders concerned with evaluation in Macedonia belonging to higher education, public and private sector. The project manager presented the project and its outcomes. A main interest was raised by the presentation of occupational framework in Romania and the use of occupational standards for education in evaluation. As a follow-up to the project, the proposal to address the specific needs for enhancing competences in evaluation in Macedonia by training assignments with RoSE has got a very positive reaction from the audience.
The Conference outcomes are registered in the Minute of the meeting.