IMPACT Europe will develop an evaluation toolkit to help professionals in the public and voluntary sectors design and implement an evaluation of their programmes tackling violent radicalisation, whether policies or interventions. The toolkit will also help professionals go beyond the evaluation of a single project by integrating best practice into the design and implementation of future programmes.

This evaluation toolkit will be composed of four elements:

1. A standardised methodology, to provide professionals with a tool to conduct robust evaluations;
2. An evaluation results database, to allow professionals to analyse these results over time, identify best practice and develop a more informed understanding of violent radicalisation;
3. A training course (including a train-the-trainer component), to build professionals’ capacity to design, carry out and learn from appropriate evaluations;
4. A training manual, to provide easy reference for professionals applying the toolkit.

Timeline

The project ran from January 2014 to June 2017.

IMPACT Europe Consortium consists of 12 partners drawn from across Europe and beyond, specialising in academic and applied research, evaluation, community engagement, policing, commercial software and communications. Further information on each partner and their role in the project is provided at the links below.

• Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS)
• Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek (TNO)
• Studio CEVAS
• RAND Europe
• ITTI
• University of Milan Bicocca (UNIMIB)
• Hogeschool Utrecht (HU)
• Verwey-Jonker Instituut (VJI)
• Intelligence in Science (ISC)
• International Security and Counter-Terrorism Academy (ISCA)
• Nationale Politie (NP)
• Radical Middle Way (RMW)

Two additional partners in the form of other end-user organisations may be recruited during the project.