Episode 18 - How plurality strengthens evaluation: interview with May Pettigrew about the EES Autumn Event

This time we take the opportunity to share our take-aways from
the 2023 Autumn Event by the European Evaluation Society (EES)
under the Motto "Alternative Futures: What role for evaluation in
a just transition?".  As our interview guest, we invited May
Pettigrew, EES Vice Chair and main organiser of the Autumn Event
to discuss with us the impressions we had. We chat about the
diversity of contributions to this online conference, learn how
plurality is key for just transitions as well as meaningful
evaluations, and we get recommendations what evaluators need to
understand and do now to cope with AI technologies entering the
field. In particular, we focus on two sessions:

1) Session "Evaluating the Impact of Innovation and SME Support
Programs:
Unleashing Entrepreneurial Potential" - Full recording of the
session [via YouTube]


Contribution by Cliff Paredes,  Massachusetts SBDC
Network 

Contribution by Raffaele Trapasso,  OECD Centre for
Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions & Cities 

Closing by Mita Marra,  Editor In Chief at Evaluation
and Program Planning 



2) Keynote  "A just Transition" by Linda Raftree, MERL Tech
Initiative
- Full recording of the keynote talk [via YouTube]

Thank you for this great conversation!

Music: Urbana-Metronica (wooh-yeah mix) by spinningmerkaba (c)
copyright 2011 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution
(3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/jlbrock44/33345 Ft:
Morusque, Jeris, CSoul, Alex Beroza 


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