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Programme

28th DeGEval Annual Conference from 17 to 19 September 2025

For the first time, the DeGEval Annual Conference features an international stream. This stream presents findings from the CEval Evaluation GLOBE Project, which comprises 50 country case studies and 11 reports from transnational organizations, offering a global overview of developments in the institutionalization and professionalization of evaluation, as well as of enabling and hindering factors.

Sessions in the international stream are marked in orange. Yellow indicates sessions held entirely in English (outside the international stream), while light yellow marks sessions with individual English contributions. All other sessions are conducted in German, even if their titles appear in English in the translated programme overview.

Date: Wednesday, 17/Sept/2025

12:30pm - 4:30pm

WBS 1: Einführung in die Indikatorenentwicklung
Session Chair: Wolfgang Meyer, Universität des Saarlandes

12:30pm - 4:30pm

WBS 2: Wirkungsmodellierung 2.0: Potenziale von Programmtheorie jenseits des logischen Modells
Session Chair: Jan Hense, -/-

12:30pm - 4:30pm

WBS 3: "KI-Rückenwind" für die Analyse qualitativer Evaluationsdaten: MAXQDA AI Assist und Tailwind

Seminar leader: Stefan Rädiker

12:30pm - 4:30pm

WBS 4: Let’s Talk Rights and Evaluation - A Practical Introduction to Human Rights-Based Evaluation

Seminar leaders: Martin Bruder and Lena Taube

12:30pm - 4:30pm

WBS 5: Prozessanalysen in Evaluationen
Session Chair: Dieter Filsinger, HTW Saarland
Session Chair: Holger Bähr, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung

5:00pm - 7:00pm

DeGEval General Meeting

7:30pm

Dinner on Wednesday

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

Date: Thursday, 18/Sept/2025

9:30am - 11:00am

Working Group Meetings

11:00am - 11:30am

Coffee Break

11:30am - 12:00pm

Conference Opening

12:00pm - 12:45pm

Keynote: The Institutionalization of Evaluation in a Global Perspective

Keynote by Reinhard Stockmann

12:45pm - 1:00pm

Welcoming Address

Jacob von Weizsäcker, State Minister of Finance of Saarland

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Lunch Break

2:30pm - 4:00pm

A1: 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 - 4:00pm

A2: 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 - 4:00pm

A3: Evaluation in Complex Processes: Three Ways to Make Effects Visible
Session Chair: Peter Kaufmann, KMU Forschung Austria
Session Chair: Stefan Schmidt, schmidt evaluation

2:30pm - 4:00pm

A4: 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 - 4:00pm

A5: 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 - 4:00pm

A6: Putting Impact Orientation into Practice: Institutional Structures, Administrative Culture, and the Role of Evaluative Thinking in the Public Sector
Session Chair: Camilla Wanckel, Universität Potsdam

2:30pm - 4:00pm

A7: Professionalization of Evaluation Through Innovative Methods and Techniques
Session Chair: Oliver Bieri, Interface Politikstudien Forschung Beratung AG

2:30pm - 4:00pm

A8: Evaluation Capacities and Approaches of Public Actors in Comparison: Cooperation, Monitoring and Professionalization
Session Chair: Frank König, Deutsches Jugendinstitut e.V.

2:30pm - 4:00pm

Supporting 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 - 4:30pm

Coffee Break

4:30pm - 6:00pm

B1: 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 - 6:00pm

B2: 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 - 6:00pm

B3: Futures of Education and Training in Evaluation: Pathways for Professionalization
Session Chair: Dieter Filsinger, HTW Saarland

4:30pm - 6:00pm

B4: 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 - 6:00pm

B5: Foresight-Informed Evaluation: Institutionalization of Foresight Methods for Future-Oriented Evaluation Practice
Session Chair: Lea Kristin Kleinsorg, deval

4:30pm - 6:00pm

B6: Evaluation in the Environmental Sector: A Knowledge and Learning Tool
Session Chair: Dominik Jessing, ifeu - Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung Heidelberg gGmbH

4:30pm - 6:00pm

B7: 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 - 6:00pm

B8: Flash Presentations
Session Chair: Ansgar Cordier, ajc

4:30pm - 6:00pm

The 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 - 7:30pm

Saarbrücken City Tour

7:30pm

Dinner on Thursday

Ratskeller Saarbrücken, Rathausplatz 1, 66111 Saarbrücken

Date: Friday, 19/Sept/2025

9:00am - 10:30am

C1: Wirkungsmessung und Professionalisierung in komplexen Praxisfeldern: Zwischen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, Wirtschaft und Organisation
Session Chair: Dieter Filsinger, HTW Saarland

9:00am - 10:30am

C2: 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 - 10:30am

C3: Institutionalization of Evaluation at National Level: Perspectives from Different Regions of the World
Session Chair: Sarah Klier, DEval

9:00am - 10:30am

C4: Artificial Intelligence in Evaluation: How is the Professional Community Positioning Itself?
Session Chair: Jan Hense, -/-

Session des AK Professionalisierung

9:00am - 10:30am

C5: 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 - 10:30am

C6: 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 Chair: Nikolai Hergt, keine

Session des AK Entwicklungspolitik / Humanitäre Hilfe

9:00am - 10:30am

C7: 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 - 10:30am

Contributions 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 - 11:00am

Coffee Break

11:00am - 12:00pm

Keynote: Professionalization for What? Evaluation between Aspiration and Reality

Keynote by Stefanie Krapp

12:00pm - 12:30pm

Coffee Break

12:30pm - 2:00pm

Closing Panel: Stakeholder Strategies for Strengthening the Institutionalisation of Evaluation

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

12:30pm - 2:00pm

D1: 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 - 2:00pm

D2: Organisational Prerequisites for Evaluative Practice: Cooperation, Culture, Professionalization
Session Chair: Philipp Pohlenz, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg

12:30pm - 2:00pm

D3: Building Evaluation Capacity in Paedagogical Settings
Session Chair: Niobe Osius, Sucht.Hamburg gGmbH

12:30pm - 2:00pm

D4: 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, Transformativ Wirken

12:30pm - 2:00pm

D5: „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 - 2:00pm

D6: 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 - 3:00pm

Closing Session

3:10pm - 4:00pm

End-of-Conference Snack

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

We would like to thank the following organizations for their kind support of the 28th DeGEval Annual Conference:

Master (Blended Learning) of Evaluation

Weiterbildungsmasterstudiengang Evaluation

Supporters of the international conference stream: