The Profeedback COST Action has officially concluded, marking the completion of an extensive collaborative effort to strengthen the field of public policy evaluation across Europe. Its final outputs are now available on the Profeedback website. The latest outputs are two comprehensive toolkits, prepared by colleagues from HÉTFA Research Institute.
The PROFEEDBACK Toolkit on Evaluation Methodologies is a comprehensive and structured publication designed to disseminate the knowledge, experience, and practical examples generated throughout the Action. Throughout the Profeedback Action, a wide range of collaborative events united evaluation professionals, researchers, and public sector stakeholders, generating valuable scientific and practical insights. The Toolkit brings together theory, quantitative and qualitative methods, participatory techniques, and real case examples in one accessible resource. Covering approaches from Theory of Change to Randomized Controlled Trials, and from focus groups to outcome harvesting, the Toolkit provides a clear and easy-to-use overview of how evaluations are designed, implemented, and interpreted in real policy environments.
The PROFEEDBACK Research Management Toolkit guides users through the landscape of European research, funding, and tendering. At its core are three focused webinars that open doors to professional opportunities: the role of evaluators throughout the EU grant project lifecycle, key principles of effective research management, and a hands-on introduction to finding evaluation tenders on European procurement platforms. The Toolkit includes a curated Research Management Knowledge Base with frameworks, training materials, and templates, as well as the PROFEEDBACK Sustainable Impact Hub, a platform that maps expertise, links members to funding opportunities across major EU programmes, and supports ongoing collaboration and training.