Evaluations

KommEnt, my long-standing employer, is one of the pioneers of evaluation in the field of development education and global learning. From the mid-1990s, Helmuth Hartmeyer and Susanne Höck (then both KommEnt) were the ones who paved the way for all followers in the German-speaking area (and beyond) with the very first evaluations in this field.

For some 20 years I have had the opportunity to build on this experience and to study and evaluate many projects and programs in fields such as development education and awareness raising (DEAR), global learning, fair trade, education for sustainable development or climate protection.

With my retirement in 2020 I would like to thank my long-time colleague Susanne Höck from EOP (Evalation / Organizational Development / Project and Program Service) near Munich, Germany, with whom I have carried out many evaluations. From her and together with her I was able to learn a lot of what is important in evaluations in long-term educational processes and in the areas of activity we chose to work in.
As she remains active in evaluations, you might wish to contact her under EOP, located in Freising near Munich, Germany.

The following non-exhaustive list gives an overview of the evaluation assignments I have carried out over the past 5 years, mostly as part of a two or three-person team.

Period / client / project

12/2019 - 07/2023
Alpen-Adria University, Klagenfurt
Evaluation of the University Master’s Course "Global Citizenship Education", 3rd round, 2019-2023 (with S. Höck)

11/2020 - 10/2022
Forum Fairer Handel (Fair Trade Forum), Berlin
Accompanying evaluation of the project "Sustainable Consumption and Production (SDG 12) - Contribution of Fair Trade to a Socio-Ecological Transformation"

08/2019 - 07/2020
Engagement Global, Bonn
Evaluation of the focus area "Migration and Development at the Local Level" (with S. Höck)

12/2018 - 11/2020
Forum Fairer Handel (Fair Trade Forum), Berlin
Accompanying evaluation of the project "On the way to the 2030 Agenda - Fair change in society and change"

10/2018 - 03/2021
Südwind, Vienna
National Evaluation of the project “Global Issues - Global Subjects”

12/2017 - 12/2018
Global Education Network Europe - GENE, Dublin
Summative evaluation of the “GENE EC Program 2015-18” (with S. Höck)

01/2017 - 07/2018
Global Education Network Europe - GENE, Dublin
Formative evaluation of the “GENE EC Program 2015-18” (with S. Höck)

11/2016 - 12/2017
Engagement Global, Bonn
Evaluation "Education meets development" (with H. Grobbauer, KommEnt, S. Höck)

01/2016 - 12/2018
Alpen-Adria University, Klagenfurt
Evaluation of the University Masters' Course "Global Citizenship Education" 2nd round, 2016 - 2018 (with S. Höck)

04/2016 - 09/2016
Handicap International Germany, Munich
Evaluation of the educational project

More details on evaluations (and other projects) undertaken in cooperation with Susanne Höck can be found on her EOP-website under the heading “practical examples”.

In addition to evaluations I have carried out a number of other closely related projects over the years. In the last years these included the following:

04/2016-08/2018
BMZ – German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Berlin
Research on "Quality and Impact in Global Education" (Consortium C. Bergmüller, S. Höck, B. Causemann, J.-M. Krier, E. Quiring)
Published in German in 2019 and in English in 2021, more details under publications

03 / 2017-09 / 2017
Weltladen-Dachverband (umbrella organization of the German Worldshops), Mainz
Monitoring of the Worldshops: Development of the questionnaire for self-assessment 2017, implementation of the online survey, analysis of the worldshops’ feedbacks and reporting.

04 / 2015-12 / 2015
Engagement Global, Bonn
Stocktaking (mapping) of existing African-German youth exchanges and their sponsors (with S. Höck)

04 / 2015-10 / 2015
Weltladen-Dachverband (umbrella organization of the German Worldshops), Mainz
Monitoring of the Worldshops: Development of the questionnaire for self-assessment 2015, implementation of the online survey, analysis of the worldshops’ feedbacks and reporting.