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4th INTERNATIONAL EVALUATION CONGRESS “25 Years of the Polish Evaluation Society: Transformational potential of evaluation – values, goals, methods”
Poland-Hybrid
This year’s Congress is organised by the Polish Evaluation Society in cooperation with the Ministry of Development Funds and Regional Policy. This is the fourth and very special edition. Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Society, and the Congress wants to be a contribution to the debate on the necessary way of selecting relevant criteria, which, like the general objectives of evaluation strategies, are changing civilisationally and represent an important type of challenge for contemporary evaluation. An important set of criteria is the entire range of values, standards, and needs in the field of sustainable development, i.e., criteria that take into account human-human relations, human-nature-culture, and human-technology-machine relations. There is a need for revitalization of the criteria promoted by democratic and dialogical evaluation, emphasized in the 80., in the form of criteria that take into account the underrepresentation of the vision and values of marginalized, omitted, culturally excluded, or even socially diverse groups, emphasizing the need for inclusive evaluation goals.
