The kick-off meeting for the new MLE, held in Brussels on 9 June, discussed the main themes chosen by the participants in an earlier, related MLE, on Ex-Post Evaluation of Business R&I Grants Schemes, as well as the scope, organisation and planning of the exercise. The main findings of the previous MLE were presented, as were the themes of the first two upcoming country visits: using big data in R&D grant evaluations and methods for capturing behavioural change.

The MLE involves participants from Austria, Belgium, Croatia, France, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom. During the kick off meeting, participants from the countries that will host visits presented the state of the art in their countries, as well as the learning opportunities from the visits.

The MLE will run until 31 May 2018.

For further information on the new Mutual Learning Exercise:

https://rio.jrc.ec.europa.eu/en/policy-support-facility/mle-evaluation-business-rd-grant-schemes

To download a factsheet on the new Mutual Learning Exercise on Evaluation of Business R&D Grant Schemes:

https://rio.jrc.ec.europa.eu/en/library/mle-evaluation-business-rd-grant-schemes-fact-sheet