By 2010, the current Lifelong Learning Programme of the EC had run for three years. In order to improve the continuation of the programme, and to provide recommendations for the successor programme (2014–2019), the Commission launched an interim evaluation. The objective of this evaluation led by Public Policy and Management Institute in Vilnius was twofold, namely to provide a retrospective and a prospective analysis. The evaluation covered the period from 2007-2009 and included analysis of the overall programme as well as its sub-programmes.

Staff Involved: Mike Osborne, Main Contractor: Public Policy and Management Institute, Vilnius (Lithuania) Subcontractors: Research voor Beleid (Netherlands); Centre for Strategy and Evaluation Services (UK); Institute for Education and Socio-Economic Research and Consulting (Germany) and PASCAL.