ESF implementation in the period 2007-2013 - Template for EC reporting and 2008 outline report

DG EMPL wishes to establish a template to report annually on the use and implementation of the European Social Fund (ESF) at EU level. The annual report will present a battery of output and result indicators common to the 117 operational programmes and covering the main domains and types of intervention of the ESF.

In order to prepare the 2008 report and build this set of common indicators, a review of all the 117 ESF will be carried out in the official languages of all 27 member states. Together with the 2008 report, Eureval will also produce a template of the implementation report for the following years. Finally, Euréval will design and structure the process through which each Member State’s annual implementation report will automatically feed into the Commission’s reporting exercises in the future.

Euréval is the leader of a team involving consultants from Ramboll Management, Ecorys and a dozen of subcontractors in different European countries.