EES Learning Hub
The EES Learning Hub was launched on 4 November 2024, establishing a European platform for cutting-edge workshops and insightful discussions on the latest trends in evaluation.
The Learning Hub Offerings:
After completing our first two learning series: 1) AI in Evaluation and 2) Futures-Informed Evaluation, we are now ready to introduce the next round of workshops for 2026.
Please note that recordings and presentations from our workshops are available exclusively to EES members when these materials are made available.
Meet the Team:
Upcoming Workshops and Webinars:
Specialised Workshops
3rd EES Learning Hub series – “Future-fit evaluation: navigating complexity and co-creating systemic change”
We are excited to launch our 3rd EES Learning Hub Series – “Future-fit evaluation: navigating complexity and co-creating systemic change”.
The series will be split into three areas:
1. Sparking Discussion: “Can Evaluation Help Shape Regenerative Futures?”
- Date: Wednesday, 14 January 2026
- Time: 14h00 CET
- Duration: 90 minutes
This opens the series with the core idea of co-creating futures. It heightens evaluation community’s awareness of the need for a fundamentally new evaluation paradigm, given today’s polycrisis.
For further details to attend this initial free ‘sparking discussion’ event, click here.
2. Workshop #1 : “Where Nothing Is Clear and Everything Keeps Changing: What it means for evaluation to recognise complexity”
- Date: Wednesday, 11 February 2026
- Time: 14h00 – 17h00 CET
- Duration: 3 hours
This workshop supports the “navigating complexity” part of the title. This generates a dialogue about values and principles to encourage a more relational, appreciative and systemic approach to learning and evaluation. Using a series of provocations as navigation aids, participants will discover, explore, and co-create their mutual assumptions and expectations.
For full details of this workshop, click here.
3. Workshop #2 : “Three Horizons: Seeing, thinking, planning and evaluating differently for an aspirational future – and building the agency to get there”
- Date: Tuesday, 10 & Thursday, 12 March 2026
- Time: 14h00 – 16h00 CET each day
- Duration: 4 hours (plus breaks) split over two days to allow for participant internalisation between sessions
This connects directly with “co-creating systemic change.” Equip participants with an effective, inspiring way to make your strategies, programmes and portfolios, as well as your learning opportunities and evaluations, more future-ready.
For full details of this workshop, click here.
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Previous Workshops and Webinars:
Series # 1: AI in Evaluation
Sparking Discussion webinar
If you missed our launch Sparking Discussion webinar on November 4th, 2024 “AI in Evaluation: Navigating Ethics, Practical Applications, and Future Directions” you can listen to the recording on the EES website by clicking here.
Follow up event, open to only those who attended previous AI events.
Workshop 1: Hands-On: Testing and Assessing Generative AI Tools for Research and Evaluation.
Date: 13 December 2024
Facilitated by Linda Raftree and Zach Tilton /MERLTech
Workshop #2: AI as a Working Companion
Date: 24 January 2025
Facilitator: Silva Ferretti
Free webinar: Implementing an AI-led interview with many respondents
Date: 25 February 2025
Facilitators: Steve Powell and Gabriele Caldas Cabral of Causal Map Ltd
If you are an existing EES member, you can watch the webinar online and download a copy of the presentation, by clicking here.
Our First EES Drop-in Coffee Session on AI in Evaluation – Connect, Share, Reflect!
Date: 28 May 2025
Series # 2: Futures-Informed Evaluation
Sparking Discussion /Learning Hub FREE Webinar
Date: 13 June 2025 at 15:30 CET
A powerful 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗲 hosted by the EES Learning Hub, which brought together global evaluation foresight and transformation thought leaders. If you are an EES member and wish to watch a recording of this webinar, please click here.
Workshop # 1:
Workshop #1: Applying foresight thinking and methods to evaluation practice—are you ready for the future? Facilitated by Annette L Gardner, PhD, MPH
Date & Time
- Date: 1 July 2025
- Time: 14h00 CEST
- Duration: 4 hours