The External Evaluation of Cedefop was conducted in compliance with Article 27 of the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities specifying that evaluations should be applied to all programmes and activities which entail significant spending and evaluation results should be disseminated to spending, legislative and budgetary authorities.
The evaluation follows the previous such effort provided in 2007 and covers the period until mid-2012.
The purpose of the evaluation was to provide information on whether Cedefop's activities are well chosen to provide support to the European VET policy agenda and take into account European-level policy, as well as to point out possibilities for further development of Cedefop's role as a resource for European VET policy.
Furthermore, the evaluation reflected on possible synergies between Cedefop and other EU decentralised agencies, with a view to enhancing cooperation among them for better results and a more efficient use of resources.
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