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External evaluation and supervision is becoming increasingly important in today’s EU funded projects.
Our team of experienced professionals has a demonstrated track record of guiding projects to success.
Let’s talk about it!

Why engage an External Evaluator?

We know from our own experience that it is demanding to guide EU funded projects to success and offer you:

Guidance & Feedback on QA issues

A well planned quality assurance process is critical to success. We will accompany you, advise you on project management, and define the QA process together with you.
Save your internal resources for key tasks!

Evaluation of processes and products

We assist you in the project’s completion by keeping the quality of your processes and products in mind.
We provide you with professional evaluation tools and you focus on core tasks.

A Balanced Perspective from “outside”

A balanced perspective from specialists with extensive expertise allows you to stay focused on your aims.
If a project becomes difficult, we can assist you in resolving the challenges and get back on track.

Domain of Expertise

Diverse Target Groups

Our QA experts have dealt with diverse target groups including youth, adult learners, educators, social workers, refugees, the LGBTQ+ community, experts in women rights and many more partners in various sectors.

Broad range of Deliverables

We are professionals in establishing a competent Projekt Management system, including QA Tools. As a result, we are prepared to analyse a large portfolio of deliverables, outcomes, and products from numerous fields and sectors.

Meet Our Experts

Virág Suhajda (Ph.D)

Virág Suhajda, Ph.D. in Communication and Linguistics, has a background in International Relations, Political Science, and IT Management. Virág combines verbal brilliance with multidisciplinary expertise.
Her background includes environmentalism, youth programs, and a variety of writings on current themes.
She formerly worked as an Erasmus+ evaluator for Hungary’s National Agency. She is well known both locally and globally for her skills in project evaluation.

Paul Schober (Ph.D)

Paul Schober, Ph.D. in economics with experience in academic management, symbol coaching, nonprofit healthcare PR and accounting, brings a rich skill set. Paul is Managing Director at Hafelekar with prior lecturing roles at esteemed institutions and a portfolio of publications covering education, migration, apprenticeship, entrepreneurship, change management, and innovation, Paul is a globally acknowledged expert in Quality Management, and Quality Assurance, acting in various projects from different sectors.

Karin Lackner (M.A.)

Karin Lackner, with an M.A. in Cultural Studies from the University of Vienna, has held leadership positions at VA TECH, overseeing organizational aspects in the ‘IT & Organisation’ division. Her career spans EU project management, human resource development, and quality management at the National Agency in Austria. Karin is a project manager at Hafelekar, where she coordinates EU projects, providing expert project management and consulting to both public and private sector clients.

Rich in Experience & Expertise

Experience

Over 100 successfully executed EU projects, coordinating more than a quarter of them.

Expertise

Engaged in 50+ projects in either internal or external evaluation capacities.

Let’s get in touch –> info@gesob.at

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Ode to joy – 2nd Newsletter

WHAT HAS BEEN DONE SO FAR?
Hello everyone and welcome back! We are happy to share with you some interesting news about the JOY project, which aims to use experience-based methodologies to involve NEETs and adult educators in a journey of self-discovery.

1ST RESULT – THE JOY MODEL

Over the past months, the Joy project’s partnership has been working on the creation of a model containing methodologies from different fields and disciplines, such as:
storytelling, dance and body work, art, work with nature and drama
. The Research on the condition of the NEETs in the various countries involved and the Guide containing a detailed description of the aforementioned methods can already be consulted and downloaded on our website. This is an essential resource, useful for all those working in the field of adult education.

TRAINING THE TRAINER – SZENTGOTTHÁRD, HUNGARY

From 8 to 12 May 2023, the partners oft he organizations met in Szentgotthárd, arural area on the border
between Austria and Hungary. Each partner presented a different methodology of the JOY model, organizing activities and reasoning on the potential impact that the approach could have on the people identified as beneficiaries of the course. Furthermore, every afternoon, all the partners and the trainers involved were introduced to the CH-Q exercise, which helped them validate their existing experiences and to call out their previous knowledge, to experience support through the awareness of these.

WHAT’S NEXT?

JOY TRAINING

In the following months, what has been learned and experienced during the training will be proposed in a training that will take place in all the cities of theproject (Budapest, Palermo, Vienna and Ueckermünde) dedicated to all those working with adults. It will be a unique opportunity to improve one’s skills and increase one’s knowledge of innovative methods in constant evolution.

TOOLKIT AND HANDBOOK

Finally, the partnership is currently working on the creation of two different tools that can be used and consulted to re-propose the activities developed by the inventors of the JOY methodology: a Toolkit and a Handbook. The Toolkit will contain all the exercises tested during the training of the trainers, while in the Handbook it will be possible to have access to interviews with important experts of the JOY model.

DO YOU WANT TO BE INVOLVED IN JOY?

Would you like to get involved? Would you deepen the topic of the project and check the resources we are preparing for you?

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Web

JOY Website

Joy on facebook

JOY – mail contakt

Project Partners

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

Playful Paths – Resource Guide

Finally it is here – the guide for trainers, counsellors, coaches supporting women!

About the project:

The goal of this project is to strengthen the agency of women, who are reentering the labour force after years of being stay-home mothers.


While we cannot change the systemic failures and problems of the labour market, by strengthening women’s control about their career and personal goals and personal competencies, as well as assist them in finding a better approach to work-balance harmony, we would like to empower them for a more conscious career planning.


There are already available methodologies developed for other fields of career and life coaching, which can be adapted to this target group: these are symbolwork, folk tale work (“meseterápia”), and also playwork, all of which will be described in the following chapters.

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Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not
necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA).
Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them

MARIPOSA lands in

The piloting phase of the online tools has started

The MARIPOSA project consortium is stepping up efforts to support and empower survivors of gender-based violence by creating a variety of online tools, some of which are already available in the “Online tools” section of the website.

We began the piloting phase of the two tools ME and My Resources and EmpowerME in March 2023, with the goal of assisting women survivors of gender-based violence in processing their feelings and emotions, reflecting on their resources, defining future objectives, and developing concrete action plans. Women will test the tools and provide feedback and suggestions on how to improve the experience.

More details on piloting and results are coming soon!

On March 22th and 23rd, during the third Transnational Project Meeting in Bucharest, we had the opportunity to brainstorm and discuss the content of the Guide for Networking and Campaigning, an upcoming guide for anyone who wants to network and campaign against gender-based violence. On that same occasion, we have finalized the Guide for Victim Empowerment by Peer to Peer Support, which will be available online on the project website in May 2023, and shared our thoughts and feelings on project progress and next steps.

Find out more about the project via the brochure and the website: https://mariposaproject.eu/

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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Mariposa newsletter No_1

The Mariposa project provides new tools that can help women affected by gender-based violence to identify the unhealthy dynamics in which they are involved and overcome them through the development of a personal life plan and orientation towards relevant professional support.

Find some useful information about the project in our latest newsletter

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Mariposa

Violence shatters a woman’s identity and makes her lose sight of herself and of her unique resources.

Being able to spot the toxic relationships and power dynamics underlying the phenomenon of gender-based violence represents the first, necessary step to break the cycle of violence, rebuild self-esteem and create a personal life plan for the future.

The Mariposa project provides new tools that can help women affected by gender-based violence to identify the unhealthy dynamics in which they are involved and overcome them through the development of a personal life plan and orientation towards relevant professional support. At the same time, we intend to guide peers and supporters in encouraging the empowerment of women affected by gender-based violence and developing support networks and campaigns for the prevention and fight against gender-based violence.

Objectives

  • Supporting women affected by gender-based violence to break away from the cycle of violence, rebuild self-esteem and create a life plan for a future free from violence
  • Guiding peers and supporters in encouraging the empowerment of women affected by gender-based violence
  • Developing support networks and building campaigns for the prevention and fight against gender-based violence

Resources

  • “ME and My Resources”, an interactive online tool supporting women affected by gender-based violence to identify their resources and set objectives through the use of symbols
  • “EmpowerME”, an interactive online tool supporting women affected by gender-based violence to reflect on their coping mechanisms and emotions for their empowerment and self-help through the use of symbols
  • A Guide for Peer-to-Peer Support, with instructions on how to support women affected by gender-based violence and encourage their empowerment
  • A Guide on Networking and Campaigning, for anyone who wants to campaign against gender-based violence

Website

https://mariposaproject.eu/

PARTNERS:

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This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

Ode to Joy

Attunement through the Experience of Joy

Ode to Joy, is named after one of the positive emotions joy, pride, contentment, esteem which are catalysts for increasing people’s satisfaction generally in their personal lives and professionally in their work. Joyful people are more motivated to act and participate, are much less likely to experience burn out, and have a better mental and physical health and are more resilient towards uncomfortable emotions. We want to achieve this through fusing experience-based methods together, such as drama, bodywork, dance, music, symbolwork, storytelling, nature work, validation of competencies, CH-Q procedure, with more formal VPL methods, that help NEETs reconnect with their body and mind, increasing their ability to experience joy and to connect and through this experience develop a greater sense of attunement and joy.

Ode to Joy aims to realize the following objectives:

  • To equip adult educators/ guidance councellors (or people working in similar fields) with tools to support their target group in personal growth through increased awareness, motivation and positive emotions.
  • To foster virtuous connection between NEET young adults (18-29 years old), the employment sector and the formal and informal learning environments.
  • To provide Common Guidelines to implementing the project’s model and approach of focusing on the fostering attunement and connection to one’s emotion through experience-based methods.
  • To provide recommendations for policy makers to embed the model and the process in the active labour market policies and guidelines for career counsellors.

Main results are:

  • Based on outcomes of a cross-national research, a shared model and process for the use of socio-creative instruments in combination with VPL and other recognition of competences and transversal skills and guidelines to implement the model and approach will be developed.
  • Educators’ resources, a Toolbox and a Handbook, and pedagogical guidelines will be created based on methods used by partners. The Toolbox includes a number of methods, games and exercises adult educators can use in their daily work, complimented with the theoretical backgrounds of the methods in the Handbook.
  • The Toolbox will be used to create a training curriculum, tested in an international pilot-training of trainers. Based on this, five organisational curricula will be developed by the partners, in a way that is the most relevant to the local settings partners are working in, to enhance the usability and the impact.
  • Finally, a summary report with the following contents is prepared: Applied methods, the adaptation of the handbook and the tools, based on the evaluation of the training; a policy recommendation paper, including procedures and instruments linked to the informal recognition of competences; guidelines and tips for adult educators, career guides and VPL practitioners and a Position Paper with the summary of our recommendations.

Project duration

November 2021 – May 2024

Web

https://joy-experience.eu

Project Partners

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This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

SCVis -Fashion Supply Chain Visibility Project

SCVis – European Fashion Retail Supply Chain Visibility Training

The goal of the SCVis Project was to create knowledge to support a successfully functioning transnational European-based fashion supply chain by improving the visibility amongst supply chain members. The project incorporated how training should be offered to different members of the same international supply chain by consideration of the different cultural and economic contexts across the EU. SCVis aimed to create a high quality vocational education and training (VET) fashion supply chain visibility resource for the benefit of those engaged in the fashion sector in Europe.

SCVis objectives:

  • SCVis dataset
  • a web-based digital tool
  • SCVis training material
  • resources beyond the lifetime of the project that will be translated into English, French, Italian and Greek languages

GESOB conducts an external evaluation of SCVis throughout the duration of the project. The evaluation report is based on personal interviews, questionnaires, an assessment of activities and communication, and participation in a project meeting. The following aspects of the project were evaluated:

  • assessment of the project results and achievement of objectives (indicators).
  • perspective of the project partners on the work process
  • events and public relations
  • strengths and weaknesses of the project work
  • possibilities for improvement

Project duration

November 2017 – Oktober 2019

Web

Homepage: www.scvis.eu
Tool: tech100.markup.gr

Project Partners

University of Gloucestershire (Great Britain)
Technical University Dublin (Ireland)
MIP Politecnico di Milano – Graduate School of Business (Italy)
Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki (Greece)
ESSCA School of Management (France)

Funding

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This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

MHELM

MHELM – Moldova Higher Education Leadership and Management Programme

The MHELM project aims to develop and implement a leadership and management development programme for managers in higher education at Moldovan universities. The project aims to support managers (rectors, deans, administrative heads, academic staff with managerial responsibilities) in the field of science management and to perfect their professional competences with an individually adapted leadership and management development programme.

The main concerns of the project are:

  • Strengthening organizational structures, strategic planning and management at universities.
  • Supporting steering capacities and management in the field of education
  • Promoting reforms in higher education

MHELM develops and implements the leadership and management development programme, creates the necessary infrastructure to ensure sustainable implementation, and provides ongoing information about the project.

GESOB conducts an external evaluation of MHELM on behalf of the project partner ISOB GmbH over the entire duration of the project. This includes participation in project meetings and evaluation reports on the following points:

  • Perspective of the project partners on the work process
  • Strengths and weaknesses of the project work
  • Best practices and recommendations for improvement
  • Assessment of the project results and the achievement of objectives

Project duration

November 2019 – November 2022

Web

Homepage: mhelm.utm.md
Facebook: www.facebook.com/MHELM.UTM

Project Partners

Funding

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This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

PAPPUS project meeting in St. Pölten

PAPPUS project meeting in St. Pölten

The PAPPUS project team came together in St. Pölten for an exciting and mutually enriching meeting. PAPPUS is related to the CAPS project in terms of content, as both projects apply and disseminate the principles of “Playwork”.

The current work plan was discussed by the team. In the first work package, each partner will prepare a national report by conducting interviews and focus groups with stakeholders. This work will be completed by March 2021 and will be discussed at the next meeting in England, where there will also be a field trip to British schools working with playwork principles and nature.

The team also discussed the other work packages, the online toolkit and the planned training course for teachers and youth workers and the final multiplier events for interested parties and stakeholders.

Homepage: www.pappusproject.eu
Facebook: www.facebook.com/PappusErasmus/