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Evidence Informed Policy and Practice in Education in Europe

Janice Tripney

Governance and effective VET policies: the role of evidence. A ‘Torinet’ initiative

23-24 November 2011, ETF, Turin, Italy

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Evidence Informed Policy and Practice in Education in Europe (EIPPEE) Project

• Two-year (2011-2013) knowledge brokerage initiative (taking a ‘systems focus’)

• Funded by the European Commission Directorate-General for Education and Culture under the Lifelong Learning: 2020 strategy (EAC-2010-1395)

• Builds on an earlier EC-funded project, EIPEE (2010-2011)

• Collaborative project involving 35 partners from 23 different countries within Europe and 7 organisations from 4 countries outside Europe as international affiliates

• Led by the EPPI-Centre, Institute of Education, University of London, UK

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Aims and methods

Objectives To achieve these, we will

To develop broad-based, multi-level international network (for communication and collaboration)

•Develop website www.eippee.eu (includes registration for network membership)•Hold annual networking conferences•Create and manage an online discussion forum

To improve access to evidence •Create portal / gateway to European sources•Provide training courses / tailored workshops (including materials for web)

To increase research on mediation of evidence (to encourage new brokerage activities)

•Study the evidence-to-use process•Identify and provide relevant publications and other resources •Provide guidance and support (including materials for web)•Explore development of a self-assessment tool

To increase capacity to find, interpret and use evidence more effectively

•Provide training courses / tailored workshops (including materials)•Provide consultancy services (including materials for web)

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EIPPEE: Online and face-to-face courses

Systematic Reviews for Policy and Practice

Online: Runs for 15 weeks from September to December 2012Face-to-face: Provisional dates in 2012: 20-21 March and 10-11 April. London, 09.30-17.00.

Participative Research and Policy

Online only: Runs for 15 weeks from 18 January to 2 May 2012

Methods for Research Synthesis: meta-analysis to meta-ethnography

Online only: Runs for 14 weeks from 30 April to 30 July 2012

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EIPPEE: Tailored training workshops

• Offering four one- or two-day tailored workshops, free of charge to relevant stakeholders resident in an eligible European country: European Union member states, countries within the European Free Trade Area (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland) and Turkey

• Content: This can be negotiated with you and adapted to the needs of your organisation but would be based loosely on one or more of the three online/face-to-face courses discussed previously

• We ask that hosts provide administration, rooms, materials and audiovisual facilities

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EIPPEE: Consultancy service

Who’s it for?• Decision-makers working in education in Europe who have a problem/question that they are currently

working on and which they want research to help with• Open to national, regional and local level policy-makers, school leaders, teachers, management• Clients must require assistance with a decision/question related to one or more of the three priority themes

within the Europe 2020 strategy (smart growth, sustainable growth, inclusive growth)

What support is provided? • Support to help clarifying issues or questions under concern• Support to help identifying and using relevant research• Signposts to tools and resources to help address problems with implementation and monitoring and

evaluating outcomes• One or two-day face-to-face support service with additional telephone and email support

How much does it cost? • Free of charge to decision makers who work in an eligible European country• We have funding to provide this service four times 

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EIPPEE: Conferences

9-10 May 2012: Netherlands or Belgium: event co-hosted with the Netherlands' Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and the Flemish Ministry

Spring 2013: Frankfurt, Germany: event co-hosted with the German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF)

International Open to any relevant stakeholder: researchers, practitioners, policymakers, trade union

representatives, professional body representatives, students, parents, etc. No attendance fee

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So, is this something that you can access? Quick recap....

What can you access? Freely available to all (but required to register to become member of network to access some)

Free of charge to eligible countries

Available, but not free of charge

Network x

Website (resources and online forum)

x

Conferences x

Training courses / tailored workshops

x x

Consultancy service x x

Support with research proposals/funding applications

x

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Acknowledgments / references

• EPPI-Centre team: David Gough, Janice Tripney, Caroline Kenny, Elisabeth Buk-Berge, Mark Newman, James Thomas, Sergio Graziosi

• Gough D, Tripney J, Kenny C, Buk-Berge E (2011) Evidence Informed Policy in Education in Europe: EIPEE final project report. London: EPPI-Centre, Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London. ISBN: 978-1-907345-15-9

• Evidence and Policy: A journal of research, debate and practice https://www.policypress.org.uk/journals/evidence_policy/

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EIPPEE projectWebsite: http://eippee.euTwitter: @EIPPEEnet

EPPI-CentreWebsite http://eppi.ioe.ac.ukTwitter: @EPPICentrej.tripney@ioe.ac.uk

Thank you for your attention

EPPI-CentreSocial Science Research UnitInstitute of EducationUniversity of London18 Woburn SquareLondon WC1H 0NR

Tel +44 (0)20 7612 6397Fax +44 (0)20 7612 6400Email eppi@ioe.ac.ukWeb eppi.ioe.ac.uk/

The EPPI-Centre is part of the Social Science Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London