Frederike Gross was an invited speaker at the third International Evaluation Conference 'Preparing for EU 2014-2020', organised in Budapest on 7-8 June 2012 by the National Development Agency in cooperation with the European Commission.
The aim of the conference was to exploit evaluation experiences in preparation for designing the new national strategies and Operational Programmes in line with the strong result-orientated requirements of the Europe 2020 strategy.
Frederike presented the findings of two major ex post evaluations of Structural Funds management and implementation (ERDF and Cohesion Fund) undertaken by EPRC over recent years, with a particular focus on Hungary.