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Date(s) - 26/10/2026 - 30/10/2026
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Date(s): 26 – 30 October 2026
Venue: Lille, France
We are delighted to invite our members to the 16th European Evaluation Biennial Conference. This exciting in-person event will take place in Lille, France, from Monday 26 to Friday 30 October 2026.
The EES biennial conference is the Society’s flagship event, attracting up to 1000 delegates from Europe and globally, to debate, share learnings and engage with state-of-the-art developments in the theory, practice and methodology of evaluation.
We are currently in the early stages of organising this exciting biennial event and the provisional conference theme is “Evaluative Thinking and European Democracy: New Methods, Systems Approaches, and Responsiveness for Successful and Inclusive Policies”. Our theme and the three ‘strands’ respond to the turbulence of these times, driven by polarisation, misinformation, populism, authoritarianism and polycrises that are profoundly affecting social, economic, environmental and political stability.
The 2026 EES conference will bring together thought leaders, practitioners, commissioners and methodological innovators in an event that has inclusivity, participation and evidence for informed democratic governance at the core of its debates. For this major event, EES is inviting expressions of interest in the role of Conference Programme Coordinator. The Programme Coordinator will be actively supported by the EES Board and, in particular, the Board Conference team. The work will be facilitated by EES’ Professional Conference Organiser, Kuoni Tumlare, who will be responsible for the logistical organisation of the event and administrative support. Further details about the Programme Coordinator role can be found online by clicking here.
Further details about the conference will be announced over the coming weeks, therefore please hold the date.