July 8 2005: A draft presentation (working paper) of the proposed European Pilot Initiative "Towards a European modular approach for the monitoring and evaluation of innovation support measures and programmes" is on-line for comments. Jump to the "European Pilot Initiative" section.

July 8 2005: Presentations delivered during the International Workshop on "Making monitoring and evaluation of innovation programmes a competitiveness tool" are now on-line for downloading.

July 5 2005: The International Workshop took place in Brussels with 70 participants from 22 countries.

June, 1, 2005: The draft programme of the International Workshop on "Making monitoring and evaluation of innovation programmes a competitiveness tool", which will take place in Brussels on July 5 2005, is on-line. It will be up-dated regularly. This International Workshop is an integral part of the study process: it should allow discussion with the innovation policy-making and support community of early drafts and proposed EC pilot initiative and provide inputs for the final deliverables. Around 80 participants are expected. To register, please download the registration form from the "International workshop section" of the site and return it to the workshop secretariat.

May 2005: The third meeting of the HLWG took place on 19-20 May in Glasgow, Scotland. The date for the international workshop in Brussels has been decided: it will take place on Tuesday July 5, 2005 in Centre A. Borschette.

April 2005: The interim Report has been delivered to the Commission together with a stand-alone report which can be downloaded by clicking here .

March 2005: The second meeting of the HLWG took place on 10-11 March in Budapest.

Two case studies were presented:
- The German case study, synthesising six sub cases and mapping trends in the innovation and evaluation policy making
- The Hungarian case study on the design and execution of the Innovation law, adopted in 2004. One special guest was invited for a discussion on the Hungarian Innovation Law case study: Dr Tamás BALOGH, Director of the Innovation Department at the Ministry of Economy and Transport, Hungary.
The main issues around the two cases: what are the benefits of stakeholders' involvement in evaluation programmes? How can it help the diffusion of an evaluation culture? Smart regulation: how to take into account system and market failures? The modular approach of evaluation.

January 2005: The first meeting of the HLWG took place on 13-14 January in Helsinki.

The objectives of this first meeting were to discuss the overall objectives of the study, to present the detailed work programme and issues at stake and to receive guidelines and suggestions from the HLWG members. The first case study has been presented : it dealt with Tekes and the Finnish evaluation culture example. Two special guests were invited for a discussion: Dr Markus KOSKENLINNA, Executive Director, Impact Analysis, Tekes, Finland and Mr Seppo KANGASPUNTA, Senior Adviser, Ministry for Trade and Industry, Finland.

December 2004: installation of the High Level Working Group.

November 2004: start of the study.