Conference Agenda

Here you can find an overview of our conference programme. Sessions in English (yellow) or sessions with individual contributions in English (light yellow) are shown in colour. All sessions not shown in colour are in German, even if the session title is translated into English in the translated programme overview.

 
 
Session Overview
Date: Wednesday, 17/Sept/2025
12:30pm - 4:30pmWBS 1: Einführung in die Indikatorenentwicklung
Session Chair: Wolfgang Meyer, Universität des Saarlandes
12:30pm - 4:30pmWBS 2: Wirkungsmodellierung 2.0: Potenziale von Programmtheorie jenseits des logischen Modells
Session Chair: Jan Hense, -/-
12:30pm - 4:30pmWBS 3: "KI-Rückenwind" für die Analyse qualitativer Evaluationsdaten: MAXQDA AI Assist und Tailwind

Seminar leader: Stefan Rädiker

12:30pm - 4:30pmWBS 4: Let’s Talk Rights and Evaluation - A Practical Introduction to Human Rights-Based Evaluation

Seminar leaders: Martin Bruder and Lena Taube

12:30pm - 4:30pmWBS 5: Prozessanalyse
Session Chair: Dieter Filsinger, HTW Saarland
5:00pm - 7:00pmDeGEval General Meeting
7:30pmDinner on Wednesday

Ausländer Café (AC), Campus A 3.2, 66123 Saarbrücken

Date: Thursday, 18/Sept/2025
9:30am - 11:00amWorking Group Meetings
11:00am - 11:30amCoffee Break
11:30am - 12:00pmConference Opening
12:00pm - 1:00pmKeynote: The Institutionalization of Evaluation in a Global Perspective

Keynote by Reinhard Stockmann

1:00pm - 2:30pmLunch Break
2:30pm - 4:00pmA1: Revision of the DeGEval Recommendations for Commissioners of Evaluation Assignments: State of Play and Further Process of the Ad hoc Group
Session Chair: Christelle Nowack, DLR Projektträger
2:30pm - 4:00pmA2: Evaluation als Brückenbauerin: Professionalisierung zwischen Praxis, Zivilgesellschaft und Politik
Session Chair: Anna von Werthern, Deutschen Evaluierungsinstitut der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (DEval)
Session Chair: Alexander Kocks, DEval
2:30pm - 4:00pmA3: Evaluationsbasierte Steuerung in Transformationsprozessen: Effizienz, Wirkung und Praxis
Session Chair: Peter Kaufmann, KMU Forschung Austria
2:30pm - 4:00pmA4: Internal School Evaluation between Everyday School Life, Professionalization, and Evaluation Standards
Session Chair: Susanne Frühauf, Hessische Lehrkräfteakademie
Session Chair: Andreas Brunner, Fachstelle für Schulbeurteilung, Kanton Zürich

Session des AK Schulen

2:30pm - 4:00pmA5: Systematic Reviews, Quasi-Experimental Designs and Rigorous Impact Evaluations: Potentials of Different Evaluation Designs as Sources for Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Development Cooperation
Session Chair: Heike Steckhan, Deutsches Evaluierungsinstitut der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (DEval) gGmbH
2:30pm - 4:00pmA6: Wirkungsorientierung in der Praxis
Session Chair: Camilla Wanckel, Universität Potsdam
2:30pm - 4:00pmA7: Professionalization of Evaluation Through Innovative Methods and Techniques
Session Chair: Oliver Bieri, Interface Politikstudien Forschung Beratung AG
2:30pm - 4:00pmA8: Evaluation Capacities and Approaches of Public Actors in Comparison: Cooperation, Monitoring and Professionalization
Session Chair: Frank König, Deutsches Jugendinstitut e.V.
2:30pm - 4:00pmSupporting and Hindering Factors for the institutionalization and use of evaluation
Session Chair: Wolfgang Meyer, Universität des Saarlandes

International conference stream (organised by Center for Evaluation (CEval) – Saarland University)

4:00pm - 4:30pmCoffee Break
4:30pm - 6:00pmB1: Institutionalizing Impact Management: Implementing Impact Assessment and Analysis Using the Example of the ARL - Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association
Session Chair: Maximilian Räthel, ARL - Akademie für Raumentwicklung in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
4:30pm - 6:00pmB2: Efficiency-Oriented Policy-Making - Interactive Session on the Professionalization and Methodological Development of Efficiency Evaluation Across Different Policy Fields
Session Chair: Alexander Kocks, DEval
Session Chair: Franziska Heinze, Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg

Session des AK Methoden

4:30pm - 6:00pmB3: Futures of Education and Training in Evaluation: Pathways for Professionalization
Session Chair: Dieter Filsinger, HTW Saarland
4:30pm - 6:00pmB4: Professionalization of Evaluative Practice in Socio-Political Fields of Action
Session Chair: Stefanie Reiter, Deutsches Jugendinstitut e.V.
Session Chair: Olaf Lobermeier, Ostfalia Hochschule Braunschweig/Wolfenbüttel
4:30pm - 6:00pmB5: Foresight-Informed Evaluation: Institutionalization of Foresight Methods for Future-Oriented Evaluation Practice
4:30pm - 6:00pmB6: Evaluation in the Environmental Sector: A Knowledge and Learning Tool
Session Chair: Dominik Jessing, ifeu - Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung Heidelberg gGmbH
4:30pm - 6:00pmB7: Institutionalization of Evaluations in Culture & Cultural Policy
Session Chair: Thomas Renz, IStiftung für kulturelle Weiterbildung und Kulturberatung | Institut für Kulturelle Teilhabeforschung

Session des AK Kultur & Kulturpolitik

4:30pm - 6:00pmB8: Flash Presentations
Session Chair: Ansgar Cordier, ajc
4:30pm - 6:00pmThe Role of Parliaments, Governments and Administration in Institutionalizing Evaluation
Session Chair: Tanja Stockmann, Centrum für Evaluation - Universität des Saarlandes

International conference stream (organised by Center for Evaluation (CEval) – Saarland University)

6:45pm - 7:30pmSaarbrücken City Tour
7:30pmDinner on Thursday

Ratskeller Saarbrücken, Rathausplatz 1, 66111 Saarbrücken

Date: Friday, 19/Sept/2025
9:00am - 10:30amC1: Wirkungsmessung und Professionalisierung in komplexen Praxisfeldern: Zwischen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, Wirtschaft und Organisation
Session Chair: Dieter Filsinger, HTW Saarland
9:00am - 10:30amC2: Establishing Nachhaltigkeit as an Evaluation Criterion
Session Chair: Christiane Kerlen, Kerlen Evaluation
Session Chair: Sonja Kind, VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH (iit - Institut für Innovation + Technik)
9:00am - 10:30amC3: Institutionalization of Evaluation at National Level: Perspectives from Different Regions of the World
Session Chair: Sarah Klier, DEval
9:00am - 10:30amC4: Artificial Intelligence in Evaluation: How is the Professional Community Positioning Itself?
Session Chair: Jan Hense, -/-

Session des AK Professionalisierung

9:00am - 10:30amC5: Evaluation and Quality Management at Universities: Contributions to Professionalization Through Institutionalization, Innovative Methods and Cooperative Approaches
Session Chair: Tülin Engin-Stock, uzbonn GmbH - Gesellschaft für empirische Sozialforschung und Evaluation
9:00am - 10:30amC6: Between Aspiration and Reality: Institutionalization of Evaluation for Evidence-Based Policymaking in International Cooperation
Session Chair: Sibylle Nickolmann, Misereor
Session Chair: Kirsten Vorwerk, DEval/AK-Epol-HuHi

Session des AK Entwicklungspolitik / Humanitäre Hilfe

9:00am - 10:30amC7: Workshop on the Trustworthiness of Evaluations - A Cross-Policy Comparison
Session Chair: Kerstin Schwarz, FMSystO GmbH
Session Chair: Hannah Paul, Universität Bielefeld, Fak. f. Gesundheitswissenschaften, AG Prävention & Gesundheitsförderung
9:00am - 10:30amContributions of Academia, Civil Society, and VOPEs to Evaluation Institutionalization
Session Chair: Wolfgang Meyer, Universität des Saarlandes

International conference stream (organised by Center for Evaluation (CEval) – Saarland University)

10:30am - 11:00amCoffee Break
11:00am - 12:00pmKeynote: Professionalization for What? Evaluation between Aspiration and Reality

Keynote by Stefanie Krapp

12:00pm - 12:30pmCoffee Break
12:30pm - 2:00pmClosing Panel: Stakeholder Strategies for Strengthening the Institutionalisation of Evaluation

International conference stream (organised by Center for Evaluation (CEval) – Saarland University)

12:30pm - 2:00pmD1: About the Impact of Environmental Pollution on Healthcare and Healthcare Costs – How Institutionalizing Mutual Evaluation Questions can Help Increase Transparency
Session Chair: Reinhard Zweidler, EBP Schweiz AG, Zurich; Research Institute IFAAR, Bern
Session Chair: Kerstin Schwarz, FMSystO GmbH
12:30pm - 2:00pmD2: Organisational Prerequisites for Evaluative Practice: Cooperation, Culture, Professionalization
Session Chair: Philipp Pohlenz, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
12:30pm - 2:00pmD3: Building Evaluation Capacity in Paedagogical Settings
Session Chair: Niobe Osius, Sucht.Hamburg gGmbH
12:30pm - 2:00pmD4: Integrating Diverse Perspectives and Expanding Methodological Approaches to Leverage the Full Potential of Socio-Economic Evaluations in the Environmental Sector
Session Chair: Christiane Kerlen, Kerlen Evaluation
Session Chair: Maria Gutknecht-Gmeiner, IMPULSE Evaluation und Organisationsberatung
Session Chair: Christina Bantle, Freiberufliche Tätigkeit
12:30pm - 2:00pmD5: „Ist das noch gut, oder kann das schon weg?“ – Anwendung von KI in der öffentlichen Verwaltung und ihre Lehren für die Professionalisierung und Institutionalisierung von Evaluation
Session Chair: Markus Seyfried, HSPV NRW

Session des AK Verwaltung

12:30pm - 2:00pmD6: Perspectives of Professionalization in Higher Education – Where Should the Journey Lead?
Session Chair: Sarah Schmidt, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences

Session des AK Hochschulen

2:15pm - 3:00pmClosing Session
3:10pm - 4:00pmEnd-of-Conference Snack

Vegetarian potato soup or pumpkin soup and vegan lentil and coconut soup, served with bread/rolls on the conference site


 
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