IEG Rimini to host EES Conference 2024, one of seven successful event bids over past year

The Biennial Conference of the European Evaluation Society EES will come to IEG’s Palacongressi di Rimini, 16-18 September 2024, following a successful bid win led by the Italian Evaluation Society. More than 700 international evaluators and evaluation commissioners are expected to be present at the Rimini event. Evaluation is an important service for governments, private companies, and voluntary organisations as they strive to assess the merit, worth and value of their policies, programmes and processes. “Academics, professionals, and public research institutions,” explains Gabriele Tomei, president of AIV-Italian Evaluation Society “will reveal the extent to which the evaluation of policies and programmes has become widespread in all European countries, but also how much more must be done in terms of promoting policies certifiably based on evidence. We will discuss the methodologies and learning relative to the evaluation of European structural funds, and AIV will use this stage to continue to draw the government’s attention to the absolute need to implement a process and outcome evaluation of the NRRP, which is currently only being monitored. Rimini is the ideal destination for these events, from the stunning location to the wide range of accommodation options nearby, not to mention its incredible artistic and historical heritage”. The organisation of EES 2024 follows the announcement in Ireland at the end of 2022 regarding the IADMS conference, the association that connects the world of dance with medicine, set also to take place at the Palacongressi di Rimini, 17-20 October 2024. Over the last 12 months, seven international events have been clinched by the venue for the period 2024-2027. And eight fixtures with similar profiles will be held in Rimini from now until the end of 2024. The month of March will be particularly intense at the Palacongressi di Rimini: from 9-11 March, the 23rd congress of the Italian Periodontology and Implantology was in town, from 15-18 March the National Trade Unions Congress, and 24-27 the Italian Society of Clinical Microbiology congress will come, as well as other private corporate events.