15th JRC Annual Training on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards & 2017 Annual meeting of Community of Practice.

The training (06-08 Nov) will offer the lessons learnt from the JRC assessments on more than 100 well-known composite indicators and scoreboards.

The training is open to all (researchers, policy analysts) with an interest in scoreboards, composite indicators and multi-criteria analysis. No registration fees.

Training Objectives:

• to bring together policy analysts and researchers from the European Commission, international organizations, think tanks and the academia;
• to foster a practical exchange of experiences across a wide range of key policy areas that are monitored through composite indicators and scoreboards;
• to present the concepts of composite indicators and scoreboards and discuss similarities/differences, strengths/weaknesses, policy uses;
• to provide guidelines on shaping the theoretical framework;
•  to offer practical examples on the dataset preparation;
• to highlight the implications of the conceptual and methodological choices;
• to underline the importance of  conceptual/statistical coherence;
• to offer an Excel-based tool for assessing a composite indicator/scoreboard.

In the following days, 09-10 Nov, the 2017 Annual meeting of Community of Practice on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards will take place.

Venue:

Joint Research Centre, Building 36, Amphitheater, via Enrico Fermi 2749, 21027, Ispra (VA), Italy.

Registration:

Go to registration page (deadline for registration: 20 October 2017)

For logistic : susanna.loffelholz@ec.europa.eu

Agenda:

/jrc/en/file/document/172675Agenda for the training here

Agenda for the training here

Agenda of the 2017 Annual meeting of Community of Practice will follow soon