Front page Services Evaluations Evaluations Evaluation has been a key part of our expertise since the beginning of the company. Our strength is an evaluation approach aimed at developing operations, in which we seek fact-based grounds and new ideas for development work. Our role in evaluation is to be an external expert who produces objective information about the subject of the evaluation.We evaluate the activities and impacts of projects, programmes and organisations. We carry out proactive impact assessments as well as sparring and developmental ex-ante, mid-term and ex-post evaluations.Proactive impact assessmentProactive impact assessment provides real-time information on the longer-term impacts of our development work and helps to support such impacts. Underlying the proactive impact assessment approach is the growing need to identify the effects of actions in advance and to communicate them in a comprehensible fashion to decision-makers. The methods of proactive impact assessment are used to identify the effects of operations in advance. The aim here is to support the emergence of the desired effects by identifying the pathways leading to the desired goals.Proactive impact assessment is a form of developmental assessment and is suitable as a tool for programme and project management as well as for organisational learning and operational development.Evaluation is not just an analysis of results and impacts, but an important method and toolfor action management.Mikko Valtakari, leading expertExamples of our evaluationsWe have evaluation experience inEU programmesvarious national development programmesprovincial programmesdevelopment projectsindividual projects as well as organisations and their activitiesExamples of our areas of expertise includeemployment and economic policyinnovation systems and innovation policyurban and rural policyimpact assessments and the development of evaluation methodsEvaluation methodsIn evaluations, we use appropriate and task-appropriate methods which may include, for example,thorough document analysisstatistical analysesspatial data analysesmodelling the dynamics of the effects of the actionevaluation models based on modellingmeasurements of the effects of the effects on the modelWe develop evaluation methods together with our partners.In evaluations, we collect the necessary amount of new data to form a sufficient overall picture of the subject of the evaluation. Typical data collection methods include a combination of extensive statistical data, electronic surveys and map-based surveys, as well as themed and open individual and group interviews. In addition, we use various evaluation or sparring workshops to formulate proposals for action, in which a common interpretation of the object of the evaluation can be deepened.
INNOVA – Impact assessment and indicators of innovation ecosystems Growth Industries Knowledge management Networks RDI Date: 11.2. –31.12.2021 Check out the reference INNOVA – Impact assessment and indicators of innovation ecosystems
Evaluation of Business Finland’s programmes promoting digitalisation Digitalisation Date: 1.11.2020 –31.3.2021 Check out the reference Evaluation of Business Finland’s programmes promoting digitalisation
Evaluation of LEADER principles and governance model Agriculture and forestry Governance Leader Rural Date: 9.10.2018 –13.12.2019 Check out the reference Evaluation of LEADER principles and governance model
Evaluation of the Structural Funds Programme EU Funds Date: 1.11.2016 –30.6.2019 Check out the reference Evaluation of the Structural Funds Programme
