Familiarizing students with issues regarding public policy and programs evaluation with focus on border regions and its impact. The course aims to offer students theoretical and methodological knowledge towards working on their own study in the field.
Academic aim:
-Introducing students to the main themes and theories on public policy and program evaluation;
-Understanding different approaches in evaluation;
-Internalizing theoretical aspects for use in evaluating policy, public programs, a European structural instrument that works on a border region level
Learning objectives
The course is aimed at developing theoretical knowledge useful in understanding the main theories, types and methods of evaluation, the ability to explain in interpret evaluation, the ability to come up with adequate models for public policies and programs based on the models and information studied during the course, the ability to use a technical and logical approach to creating analytical documentation used in the evaluation of public policies and programs, understanding and applying standards that are professional, ethical and defined by integrity, take ability to work in groups and generate constructive, empathic integrative action and to manifest reflection and propensity in the field of public policies and programs evaluation, targeted in border regions.
Structure of the course:
- European public policy and programs
- Europe 2020: A European Strategy for Smart, Sustainable, and Inclusive Growth
- Border Regions
- Structural found for border regions
- Theories of public policies and programs evaluation
- Steps of the evaluation process
- Evaluation models
- Types of evaluation approaches
- Study cases on border regions evaluation
Course support:
Bibliography:
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