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Template for preparation by EURES beneficiaries of the
Evaluation Report on EURES activities 2010-2013
(Report in accordance with the EURES charter (2003/106/03) and objectives set by
Regulation (EEC) 1612/68 (now codified EU No 492/2011, part II Commission Decision No
2003/8//EC of 23 December 2002 implementing Regulation (EU) No 492/2011 as regards the
clearance of vacancies and applications for employment).
Please fill in the enclosed template
(preferably in English)
and submit it to Commission by 15 December 2013
TEMPLATE FOR EURES MEMBERS (EM)
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EURES evaluation report 2010-2013
EURES Member: [e.g. Slovakia]
- Partnership Agreement number: VS/2010/0xxx
- Specific agreements numbers:
VS/2010/xxxx; VS/2011/xxxx; VS/2012/xxxx
- Option 1- cross border activities in the region: [e.g. CZ, AT, SR]
EM-A. CONTEXT
EM-A 1. Geographic Mobility trends
EM-A 1.1 Geographic Mobility trends in your country at national level (only for EURES
member action at national level)1
EM-A 1.1.1 EURES member action at national level: Describe the type of mobility flows for your country:
Please describe the mobility patterns of workers going abroad or coming in. Please elaborate with reference to sectoral or skill-level or regional differences, etc. where appropriate. Please cite your source of information.
1 Beneficiaries, who have a more detailed report on these points at their disposal, are encouraged to attach it
to this report.
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EM-A 1.1.2 EURES member action at national level: Provide an overall estimation of the size of the mobility patterns providing:
- figures for overall size of inflow and outflow per year;
- figures in relation to the 3 to 5 main countries from which most employees come and/or to which most employees go, where appropriate;
- any other figures showing the trends and the mobility challenges in your country.
Please cite your sources of information.
EM-A 1.1.3 EURES member action at national level: List key countries with which co-operation took place.
- What are the key countries you cooperated with?
- What sort of cooperation was it?
EM-A 1.1.4 EURES member action at national level: Provide total number of unfilled vacancies in PES database in January 2010- 2011-2012-2013
EM-A 1.1.5 EURES member action at national level: Provide total figures of unemployment at national level for the years 2010-2011-2012-2013
Please cite your sources of information.
Calendar Year Unemployment rate at national level
2010
2011
2012
2013
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Comments/observation:
EM-A 1.2 Geographic Mobility trends at border level (for Cross-border activities being part
of EURES member Action (option 1)2:
EM-A 1.2.1 Cross-border activities: Define the cross-border area listing all involved cross-border regions on NUTS-III level and describe the mobility flows. Please describe the mobility patterns of workers concerned. Please elaborate with reference to sectoral or skill-level or regional differences, etc. where appropriate. Please cite your source of information.
EM-A 1.2.2 Cross-border activities: Define the mission and scope of the cross border activity and list the organisations involved, committed to the objectives of the cross border activity and how they contribute (proportionally) to (the financing of) the activity.
EM-A 1.2.3 Cross-border activities: If available, please provide number of cross-border commuters 2010-2013 in relation to the overall population of the cross-border region providing:
-figures for overall size of inflow and outflow per year;
-figures in relation to the 2-3 main countries from which come most commuters and/or to which most commuters go, where appropriate;
- Any other figures showing the trends and the mobility challenges in your country.
Please cite your sources of information.
2 See call text VP/2008/008 p9 for description of the options.
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EM-2. EURES operating environment
EM-A 2.1 Describe historical and administrative set-up of EURES in your country/in yourcross border region.
EM-A 2.2 Describe how EURES activities at national level/at regional Cross-border level is
organised and integrated within national PES:
- describe the development and delivery process for services to employers, services to jobseekers and
supporting tools in relation to PES or other hosting infrastructure
EM-A 2.3 Describe if and how EURES national/EURES Cross-border Partnership works in
collaboration with private employment services or other organisations such as, local and regional
authorities, chambers of commerce, local social partners, NGOs, training organisations, etc.
- describe the development and delivery process for services to employers, services to jobseekers and
supporting tools in relation to other organisations hosting infrastructures
- describe where applicable evolutions and/or changes and/or reorganisations.
EM-A 2.4 Estimate of EURES staff directly working on EURES workplan tasks and the distribution logic over the country
Please fill in the table below, providing an estimation of the numbers if they cannot be known
precisely, please explain your mode of approximation.
- A 2.4.1 Total FTE (full time equivalent) employees specifically allocated to EURES activities at
national level/regional cross-border level (do not include: assistants, line managers, and others staff
who are not directly working on tasks described in the EURES activity plans)
- A 2.4.2 Number of non-EURES-advisers directly in charge or responsible for the execution of a EURES
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task specified in the EURES annual workplans such as EURES managers and special coordinators for
training, information, etc.
- A 2.4.3 Number of EURES advisers
A 2.4.3 A 2.4.2 A 2.4.1
Year Number FTE of
EURES advisers
Number FTE non
advisers EURES staff
Total number FTE
EURES staff
06/2010 – 05/2011
06/2011 – 05/2012
06/2012 – 05/2013
– Comments on any other indicator at national level/cross-border regional level in relation to EURES staff:
EM-A 2.5 Estimate of human resources directly working on EURES workplan tasks and not supported by any EU grant
- estimate the total wage costs for the persons covered by the preceding point A.2.4.1 who are not
funded by any EU grant. Please fill in the table below, providing an estimation of the numbers if they
cannot be known exactly, explaining your mode of approximation e.g. (average salary) x (A.2.4.1 total
FTE) – (total staff budgeted for funding under EURES grants).
Year Estimated amount
(EURO)
06/2010 – 05/2011
06/2011 – 05/2012
06/2012 – 05/2013
Comments/observation:
EM-A 2.6 Estimate of non EU granted non-staff related financial resources
- estimate other financial resources allocated to EURES per year not including any EU grants to cover
costs such as information provision, equipment, organisation of events, IT infrastructure,
maintenance and development etc. Please fill in the table below, providing an estimation of the
numbers. If these cannot be known exactly, please explain your mode of approximation
Year Estimated amount
(EURO)
06/2010 – 05/2011
06/2011 – 05/2012
06/2012 – 05/2013
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Comments/observation:
EM-A 2.7 Describe expenditure rate from EURES Grant Agreement funding:
Please provide percentage of actual EU grant after final payment over Amount granted in EURES
grant agreement:
Year % (actual EU grant after final payment/Amount granted in EURES grant)
06/2010 – 05/2011
06/2011 – 05/2012
06/2012 – 05/2013
Comments/observation:
EM-A 2.8 Assessment in relation to the expenditure rate.
Where appropriate, please provide information on why the EU grants were not fully executed.
Identify key reasons by each funding year and indicate how progress was made over the years in terms of either better planning and/or reduction of the share of non-execution.
Year Reasons for low
expenditure rate
Progress redressing
factors
06/2010 – 05/2011
06/2011 – 05/2012
06/2012 – 05/2013
Comments/observation:
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EURES evaluation report 2010-2013
EURES Member: [e.g. Slovakia]
- Partnership Agreement number: VS/2010/0xxx
- Specific agreements numbers:
VS/2010/xxxx; VS/2011/xxxx; VS/2012/xxxx
- Option 1- cross border activities in the region: [e.g. CZ, AT, SR]
EM-B. OUTPUTS
(See excel tables annexed)
EM-B.1 Implementation of the guidelines
o EM-B.1.1 Implementation of guidelines 1-5
o EM-B.1.2 Implementation of guideline 6 in case of option 1-
cross border activities
EM-B.2 Breakdown of funding and costs per guideline during the 3-
Year Partnership Agreement 2010-2013 (including cross border
activities under option 1)
EM-B.3 Estimated distribution of EURES funding according to 10
key EURES activities
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EURES evaluation report 2010-2013
EURES Member: [e.g. Slovakia]
- Partnership Agreement number: VS/2010/0xxx
- Specific agreements numbers:
VS/2010/xxxx; VS/2011/xxxx; VS/2012/xxxx
- Option 1- cross border activities in the region: [e.g. CZ, AT, SR]
EM-C. OUTCOMES of the partnership agreement over
the entire period 1/06/2010-31/05/2013
EM-C 1. Outcome
EM-C 1.1 List the original main goals and objectives of the action as set out in the Parternship
Agreement 2010-2013, and explain in a synthetic way how they were met during the period.
Please briefly describe the global results/outcome, including the main global changes, that your
action has brought about and explaining the lasting impact and/or multiplier effect that you can
perceive.
Please use the overview of OUTPUTS described in tables B.1, B.2 and B.3 to illustrate with key
examples your assessment.
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EM-C 1.2 Please briefly describe which activities were carried out which in your opinion
contributed to a "fair mobility"?
EM-C 1.3 Describe in a synthetic manner and for the whole period 2010-2013 the key main achievements of the EU funded EURES action by considering the most important target group(s) for your action and the most significant effect(s) achieved on this target group. (see suggestions below) Possible target groups:
o people: as individuals, groups of beneficiaries, entire populations o employers organisations: as single companies, groups of companies, labour market actor,etc. o employment organisations: EURES offices, Public Employment Service offices, NGOs, private
companies, other employment service providers o territories: local area, sub-national region, country, supra-national 'region', EURES member countries,
international o systems: Employment services, social security, training, etc. o values within organisations involved: long-termism, evaluation culture
Possible effects:
1. What could be done thanks to the action in addition to normal PES activities? ("more of the existing actions")
2. Where there activities that could be broadened thanks to the action, addressing e.g. groups that would not otherwise be addressed? ("broader scope of existing actions")
3. Did the action allowed for the support of innovations and the transfer of ideas/services which could be "rolled out" in other different contexts? ("new actions")
4. Did your administration/organisation benefit from the EURES network overall administrative/organisational setting? ("new ways of doing things")
Comments/observation:
Target group 1: Choose one or more key effect from 1 to 4 and explain with a
short narrative:
Target group 2
………
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EM-C 1.4 Placement and recruitment
From quantitative outputs provided in table B. OUTPUTS, can you estimate results in term of jobseeker/jobchanger placed in a job and employers' vacancies filled.
Please cite your sources of information
Year Estimated number of
persons placed in a job
(employed) in another EURES
member country
Estimated number of filled
vacancies of local employers
06/2010 – 05/2011
06/2011 – 05/2012
06/2012 – 05/2013
Year
Number of CVs handled
Number of job vacancies handled
CVs of
nationals of
sending
country:
CVs of
foreigners in
receiving
country
Job vacancies
of local
employers
Job vacancies of
foreign employers
06/2010 – 05/2011
06/2011 – 05/2012
06/2012 – 05/2013
Comments/observation:
EM-C 1.5 Trans-nationality dimension of the EURES activities:
1. "Bilateral project" in the table below is meant for a joint activity between a sending and a receiving
country e.g. the organisation of a recruitment project to support a group of employers in a specific
sector in country A to hire from a group of candidates having the right profile in country B. (For
example ship building engineers from Lisbon University to work for oil industry and offshore platforms
in Norway)
Year Estimated number of bilateral projects
for local employers for foreign employers
06/2010 – 05/2011
06/2011 – 05/2012
06/2012 – 05/2013
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2. "Regular cooperation" in the table below is meant for at least be-weekly cooperation.
What is the estimated number of EURES member countries working in regular cooperation with you?
Number of country: 06/2010 – 05/2011
Nature of the
cooperation
06/2011 – 05/2012
Nature of the
cooperation
06/2012 – 05/2013
Nature of the
cooperation
Country 1:
Country 2:
Country 3:
Country 4:
Comments/observation:
EM-C 1.6 Collection of data: did the EU funding lead to improvements in terms of collection,
dissemination and monitoring of data on mobility in general and in relation to Reg. 492/2011?
EM-C 2. Assessment of the ouputs and outcomes of the partnership agreement over the period 1/06/2010-31/05/2013
EM-C 2.1 Information on the your EURES action/cross border project achievements: monitoring
and evaluation approach:
Describe your approach to monitoring and evaluating the global achievement of your activities: staff
reports? EAs monthly reports? did you consider specific indicators to assess your activities? which
indicators did you collect with which frequency, how was the quality of data ensured? If not self-
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evident: please describe the link between objectives and indicators – Are there any evaluations or
reports beyond this document that you could provide?
EM-C 2.2 Global relevance
At the end of the partnership agreement, looking back to the original objectives of the three-year
partnership work programme, how do you assess the extent to which the objectives set for your
activities allowed to respond to the needs identified at that time? Did needs/objectives evolve? Are
the outcomes coherent with these objectives?
EM-C 2.3 Global effectiveness
Compare what has been done with what was originally foreseen. Have the desired results and
objectives been attained?
EM-C 2.4 Quality of EURES activities and services
Please provide input on your EURES customers' level of satisfaction. Please provide your sources of
information and attach any relevant report to support your conclusions.
EM-C 2.5 Global efficiency
Provide an analysis of the coherence of the outcome with the spending: how much was achieved and
with what level of quality? Would it have been possible to achieve approximately the same result with
fewer resources or to achieve more with these resources?
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EM-C 2.6 Global sustainability
Are there any actions which will continue without European Union funding support? Please explain
next steps.
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EURES evaluation report 2010-2013
EURES Member: [e.g. Slovakia]
- Partnership Agreement number: VS/2010/0xxx
- Specific agreements numbers:
VS/2010/xxxx; VS/2011/xxxx; VS/2012/xxxx
- Option 1- cross border activities in the region: [e.g. CZ, AT, SR]
EM-D. BEST PRACTICES, LESSONS LEARNT AND
RECOMMENDATIONS
EM-D 1.1 In light of the implementation in your country of the EURES guidelines, what are the most important lessons learned from the action?
Did any of the shortcomings identified at the outset of the implementation of the activities remained (partially) unaddressed? Please indicate which external factors (obstacles) contributed to such outcome. What are the implications for relevant stakeholders?
EM-D 1.2 Best practices In light of the implementation in your country of the EURES guidelines, please describe if you have developed practices that you think others could benefit from. Please attach any relevant supporting information or material or explain where others can access it (e.g., website).
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EM-D 1.3 Multi-annual plan In light of the implementation in your country of the EURES guidelines, do you have lessons learnt from the planning exercise? Are there actions not to pursue? What is your opinion about the added value of a three-year multi-annual programme vs. the annual programming?
EM-D 1.4 EURES training programme
In light of the implementation in your country of the EURES guidelines, what was your opinion about the usefulness of the EURES training programme organised by EURESco? What training was missing?
EM-D 1.5 EURES communication programme
In light of the implementation in your country of the EURES guidelines, what were the communication
items or services that you found most useful? What was your opinion about the usefulness of the
EURES communication programme provided by EURESco? Please explain if and how this supported
your own communication activities. – Do you have suggestions for improvements?
EM-D 1.6 The EURES portal
In light of the implementation in your country of the EURES guidelines, what were the portal features
or function that you found most useful? What was your overall opinion about the usefulness of the
EURES portal extranet for the members of the network? Please explain if and how this supported your
own networking activities.
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EURES evaluation report 2010-2013
EURES Member: [e.g. Slovakia]
- Partnership Agreement number: VS/2010/0xxx
- Specific agreements numbers:
VS/2010/xxxx; VS/2011/xxxx; VS/2012/xxxx
- Option 1- cross border activities in the region: [e.g. CZ, AT, SR]
EM-E. POSSIBLE FUTURE NEEDS AND EU FUNDING
EM-E.1 Limitation of financial resources Within the framework of the EURES guidelines 2010-2013, what would you have liked to see financed, which you couldn't in the light of limited resources?
EM-E.2 Limitation of eligible costs Within the framework of the EURES guidelines 2010-2013, what would you have liked to see financed, which you couldn't in the light of the limitations regarding eligibility of costs?
EM-E.2 Future needs
To continue along the lines of the EURES guidelines 2010-2013, in the future what kind of resources
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EURES evaluation report 2010-2013
EURES Member: [e.g. Slovakia]
-Partnership Agreement number: VS/2010/0xxx
EM-F. ABOUT THIS EVALUATION
EM-F 1. The EURES evaluation cycle
How do you evaluate the methodology used for this evaluation exercise? Based on your experience
what are the most important indicators for this exercise? What is your opinion about the added value
of the EURES evaluation exercise? Please explain who contributed to the report and to whom it will be
distributed in your organisation. Will this report be used for internal reporting? For promotion? For
annual budget plans? Please explain.