Projects
SMART SCHOOLS Greece
SMART SCHOOLS Greece develops a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation framework to assess the effectiveness of digital education investments in Greek schools. By defining educational…
Rapporto sul Sistema Educativo della Provincia Autonoma di Trento
The project develops an integrated system to monitor and analyse the school system of the Autonomous Province of Trento through structured indicators and data…
POLIMIN – Politiche per minori e famiglie
POLIMIN supports the implementation of Italy’s National Plans on family, childhood, adolescence and the protection of minors by producing evidence on local policies, services…
IMPACT
IMPACT investigates the socio-economic consequences of COVID-19 in Italy’s inner mountain areas, focusing on families, firms, and local communities. Funded by the Italian Ministry…
EVIDALI: Evidence-informed data literacy for policy and practice
The digitalisation of education has dramatically increased the availability and use of educational data, presenting both opportunities and challenges. While data can support personalised…
TRACK ADVISING
Every year, about 500 thousand students in Italy receive high-school track recommendations from their teachers. However, there is no clear evidence that these recommendations…
COMPITI@CASA
The Covid-19 pandemic has deepened existing educational inequalities, disproportionately affecting children already at risk of social exclusion. The shift to distance learning widened the…
HOMER – How to Make College More Affordable
Public institutions use different measures to help low-income households cover the costs of their children’s post-secondary education. One such approach is the use of…
Differentiated Autonomy – Lombardy Region
With Act No. 86 of 26 June 2024, the Italian State has taken an important step in implementing Article 116, paragraph 3, of the…
Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Public Expenditure in the Autonomous Province of Bolzano
Thanks to its extensive fiscal powers and its longstanding commitment to monitoring the effectiveness of public policies, the Autonomous Province of Bolzano can draw…
DUST - Distopie – Utopie – Spazi in Transizione
DUST addresses the critical issue of young people at risk of social marginalisation, who have lost the willingness to aspire and envision a better…
SPARKLE - STEM Practical Activities to Raise Knowledge Learning and Exploration
STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) represent a rapidly growing sector with demand for qualified workers consistently exceeding supply. However, few young people…
PolicyAId - Policy Artificial Intelligence Digest
In recent decades, policy evaluation has generated an enormous amount of scientific evidence on the effectiveness of various measures. Although this information is publicly…
TREMOD-enterprises: A MICROSIMULATION MODEL FOR CORPORATE TAXATION IN THE PROVINCE OF TRENTO
TREMOD-enterprises is a microsimulation model that originates from the extension of the TREMOD-families project to the fiscal data of companies in Trentino. The database…
PUOI - Percorsi Opportunità Istruzione
In Italy, there are strong inequalities in the educational opportunities of boys and girls belonging to families with low incomes. Since the 1990s, in…
WILL-TO
Children growing up in families with low economic resources face a higher risk of not being able to achieve their educational goals or even…
Riesco - Resilience and savings for education in the post-Covid period
Numerous studies have highlighted that in Italy, as in other countries, the economic conditions of the family of origin significantly influence the likelihood of…
Perception and Participation in Lifelong Learning: An Analysis of Craft Enterprises in the Province of Trento
Corporate training is considered an important tool to increase a company's productivity, enhance its capacity for innovation, and improve the satisfaction and motivation of…
Local Public Finance
This research program focuses on themes of public finance that are particularly relevant at the local level and are functional to the expenditure and…
MEASURING COMPAGNIA DI SAN PAOLO'S LENDING ACTIVITY
The project FBK-IRVAPP was commissioned by Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo (CSP) to collaborate with other experts for developing a set of indicators for…
Study supporting the Impact assessment of an EU initiative introducing the European Disability Card
The study is being carried out by Ernst & Young (EY), Valdani, Vicari & Associati (VVA), Open Evidence and FBK-IRVAPP on behalf of the…
DATA2LEARN@EDU - Data-Driven Learning Organizations in the Education Domain
Despite some promising results in higher education, in other educational contexts learning analytics did not achieve the same level of adoption. Primary and secondary…
AI-LEAP - LEArning Personalization with AI and of AI
A growing gap between the progress of AI science, on one side, and people’s knowledge even of the basic principles of AI, on the…
Provincial Board for Productivity and Competitiveness
The productivity and competitiveness of a region are key indicators of its long-term prosperity. Local productivity is strongly and positively correlated with both economic…
The impact of professional title gender declination in the legal profession
The impact of gender declination of the professional title in the legal profession: a case study among the professional orders in the Province of…
Monitoring Framework on effective coverage and adequacy of social protection – proposals for refining indicators
Over the last decades, European welfare states have gone through substantial changes to adapt to several structural changes, including population ageing, technological change and…
200 SME Challenge
Pursuing optimal design and user experience of digital products is key for companies to stay competitive in the market. User-centered design techniques inspired by…
Arcipelago Educativo
Learning gaps between students from different social backgrounds emerge from the earliest years of schooling and can, if not countered, translate into real inequalities…
EIBURS - The Future of Schooling: Harnessing the Potential of Digital Education Technology
With the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting spread of distance and blended learning in schools, the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), and…
SENSES - Evaluation of an experiential school intervention to counter stereotypes towards persons with visual disabilities
According to a recent ISTAT report, there are more than 300,000 pupils with disabilities attending Italian schools. Their incidence stands at 3.6% of the…
Dare Valore (The multidimensional network for inclusion)
Dare Valore (The multidimensional network for inclusion) is a pedagogical intervention project aimed at increasing levels of school participation, learning motivation and competencies in…
Technological innovation, Digital competences and Labour markets dynamics (SKILLS)
This project is carried out in cooperation with the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento.
VALERA - Evaluation of the reindustrialization programme in the Lazio region
Economic measures taken by governments to stimulate the private sector to conduct research and development (R&D) have always been an important part of traditional…
INVIND - Innovation investment and firm profitability
INVIND is a project that aims to analyse the determinants of business fixed investment and their possible effects on profitability, integrating macroeconomic, corporate finance…
SMAILE - Simple Methods for Artificial Intelligence Learning
“SMAILE’s goal is to make AI concepts accessible to a wide spectrum of children and young adults and empower them to both understand and…
Assess@Learning
A growing number of studies highlight the potential of formative assessment to improve students’ achievement and self-regulated learning. Formative assessment helps collect feedback for…
Study on Distributional Impact Assessment
This study aims at understanding the practice of EU Member States in terms of distribution impact assessment (DIA) of budgetary measures and in the…
Continuous professional development, professional capabilities and innovative teaching practices among European teachers. A second level analysis of TALIS 2018 data set
The project is a second-level analysis of the Talis 2018 dataset, investigating several key aspects in the career of EU teachers in lower secondary…
Temporary Employment and Labour Market Outcomes
Over the last twenty years, the Italian labour market experienced several changes in the regulation of temporary contracts, towards more flexible arrangements. Consequently, temporary…
Study assessing the implementation of the pilot action on the EU Disability Card and associated benefits
Persons with disabilities are known to participate less in many societal aspects, such as culture, leisure, sport, and travelling, not just due to environmental…
WILL
Family wealth affects children's education. Wealth provides families with several advantages, ranging from being able to rely on secure resources to purchase extracurricular resources…
Study on higher education institutions and local development
Economic development is increasingly related to the ability of a territory to foster innovation and attract highly skilled human capital. For this reason, it…
The effects of threat of grade retention on students achievement in the higher secondary school system in Italy
We use a reform that was implemented in Italy in 2007 to investigate the effects on academic achievement of more stringent requirements for the…
Evaluating the impact on students achievement of the introduction of ICT in Italian lower secondary schools
In 2009 the Italian Ministry of Education (MIUR) funded the Cl@ssi 2.0 programme with the aim of evaluating the impact of providing lower secondary…
Evaluation of the “Maestro Unico” reform
This project represents the first evaluation of the “Maestro Unico” reform in Italy, which sizably reduced the number of teachers in primary schools of…
Social inequalities in education in historical and comparative perspectives: the changing effects of different components of social origins
The relationship between social origins and educational attainment has been the subject of extensive research. However, the field is still one characterised by considerable…
Integrated scheme for the evaluation of the educational system in Trentino
The project, funded by IPRASE (in the context of the European Social Fund), aims at describing the performances of the PAT school system. Efficacy and equity…
The effects of labour market deregulation on individuals transitions between labour market states: the case of Italian reforms
The effects of temporary job experiences on short-term labour market outcomes in Italy A partial equilibrium impact evaluation approach has been typically used to…
The Italian programme "Liste di Mobilità": An analysis of the impact of its 'passive' component
"Liste di mobilità" (LM) is an Italian labour market programme introduced in the early Nineties to handle redundancies in the labour market. The programme…
Changes in the Italian unemployment insurance scheme and estimation of their effects on unemployment duration and transition to a new job
The effect of different unemployment insurance (UI) schemes on subsequent labour market histories is still a debated topic. The main results in the literature…
Whip4Policy
IRVAPP together with the Department of Economics of the University of Turin agreed to develop a new database suited for the evaluation of policies…
Impact evaluation of training courses: IT Voucher
This project aims at assessing the impact of adult education programme implemented by Province of Trento with the funding of the European Social Fund…
FESTA - Female Empowerment in Science and Technology Academia
The project "Female Empowerment in Science and Technology Academia" (FESTA) was funded by the European Union to study the role of gender in academic…
Post-secondary vocational training courses: are they effective for Italian unemployed youth with a high school diploma?
The Italian Ministry of Labour and Social Policies won an EU bid within which FBK-IRVAPP together with ASVAPP and ISFOL has been in charge…
Monitoring and evaluation of the “Promoting social cohesion in territorial communities” project by Cariplo Foundation
The research project analyzes the results of the call "Promoting social cohesion in local communities", sponsored by Fondazione Cariplo in Milan in 2008. Thirteen…
Reconciling paid work and family responsibilities: The role of “service vouchers” in the Province of Trento
“Buoni di Servizio” is a programme implemented by the Province of Trento, co-founded by the European Social Fund, which sets up a ‘service voucher’…
Development of a model to evaluate migrants integration policies
IRVAPP, in partnership with Vision and Values S.r.l., was commissioned by the Italian Ministry of Interior the task of defining a model for evaluating…
Impact evaluation of the Nigeria Commercial Agriculture Development Project
The Commercial Agriculture Development Project (CADP) is a World Bank project carried out in Nigeria. It aims at strengthening agricultural production systems and supporting…
Evaluation of the policy "Mutuo di riassetto" - phase I
This project, implemented by FBK-IRVAPP in collaboration with the branch of Banca d’Italia located in Trento and with the Statistical Office of the Province…
The economic impact of Italian special-statute regions
FBK-IRVAPP has launched a research project to evaluate the economic impact of Italian special-statute regions. The project has been performed by adopting the synthetic…
Incentives to firms: do they affect the output of the innovation process?
There is general consensus among economists that market mechanisms fail to provide the socially optimal level of R&D spending, basically because private firms are…
Subsidies to micro-entreprises: evaluation of the effects of the Provincial Law 6/99
The Provincial Law 6/99 (LP 6/99), that entered into force January the 1st, 2001, reorganized in a single framework the multiplicity of industrial policy…
Cognitive bias in the evaluation of avalanche risk
Overconfidence is a well-established bias in which someone's subjective confidence in their own judgments is systematically greater than their objective accuracy. There is abundant…
Engagement and achievement of 15 year olds in PISA 2015 across EU member states
Non-traditional competences such as perseverance, effort and engagement are increasingly recognized as strong predictors of young people’s educational attainment and future life outcomes. The…
The impact on Trentino’s GDP of Trentino Sviluppo interventions
The project aims at estimating the impact of some industrial and touristic programs implemented by Trentino Sviluppo. The analysis - requested by Trentino Sviluppo…
Tremod: a microsimulation model for the Province of Trento
In 2013 FBK-IRVAPP developed TREMOD, a tax-benefit microsimulation model for the Italian province of Trento (Italy). TREMOD is a flexible tool that allows static…
Panel Survey of Microenterprises in the Province of Trento
Microenterprises play an important role in the Italian economy, both regionally and nationally, as they account for the vast majority of Italian enterprises: 93.3…
The impact of broadband diffusion in Trentino
The main scope of this project is to evaluate the impact of broadband infrastructure diffusion in the Province of Trento on a range of…
MEMT - The econometric multi-sectoral model of Trentino
The complexity of economic dynamics, the growing competition among territories, and the increasing relevance of public policies set up at local level require a…
The longitudinal household survey on living condition in the Province of Trento
L’indagine sulle condizioni di vita delle famiglie trentine è uno studio panel prospettico articolato attualmente in 10 rilevazioni. Le rilevazioni sono state effettuate dall’Istituto…
Evaluating the impact of a Minimum Income Guarantee program in the Province of Trento
In Autumn 2009 a Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) program has been introduced in the Province of Trento. The introduction of such a program represents…
Impact evaluation of some active labour market policies in the Province of Trento
The autonomous Province of Trento appointed IRVAPP to investigate the impact of the training courses offered by Agenzia del Lavoro of the Province of…
Ex-ante and ex-post evaluation of passive labour policies
In the recent years the Italian Government has started a formal process aiming at endowing the autonomous Province of Trento with increasing power regarding…
Monitoring and evaluation of the Youth Guarantee in Trentino
This project aims at providing contemporary monitoring and a comprehensive impact evaluation of measures implemented within the Youth Guarantee Scheme in the Province of…
Merging microdata from panel surveys and registers for the study of work histories: a pilot on Trentino
This project has been developed upon the agreement <Lavoro dipendente> as part of the Memorandum of Understanding signed by FBK-IRVAPP, ISPAT and INPS. The…
How to revise ESeC with ISCO-08
In European social sciences the most commonly used social class schema at present is ESeC (Rose and Harrison 2010). Each category is allocated by…
Merit-based financial aid to students from low-income families and its effects on university enrollment
In 2009 the Autonomous province of Trento has started to play a leading role in encouraging students from low income families to obtain higher…
Evaluation of the 2001 reform of higher education in Italy
This research project aims to assess the effects of the reform of Higher Education (HE) approved in 1999 in Italy and implemented in 2001.…
Does randomly drawing the selection committee improve the quality of academic recruitment?
The project focuses on the effects of the last change in the rules of recruitment in Italian Universities. Starting from 2009 (DM27/03/09), the rules…
Impact evaluation of the study abroad program Mos-4
The aim of this project is to investigate the impact of programmes designed by the Province of Trento, and co-funded by the European Social…
ACHAB - Affording College with the Help of Asset Building
Socioeconomic disparities in higher education attainment are still prominent and pervasive across many countries. People from families with low incomes are less likely to…
SCUOLINSIEME
SCUOLINSIEME aims at testing the effectiveness of an innovative intervention intended to enhance student achievement and improve school climate. The project is implemented in…
School-To-Work Transitions: reforming the vocational education and training system and innovating the upper secondary education system in Trentino
The project aims at studying and assessing the introduction of innovative measures in the education and training system with the objective of improving youths’…
MENTEP - Mentoring Technology Enhanced Pedagogy
MENTEP (MENtoring Technology-Enhanced Pedagogy) aimed at developing a reliable tool for teachers to self-assess progress in technology-enhanced teaching (TET) competences and testing the tool’s…
2DD - Investigating the "Second Digital Divide" across European countries: social disparities on digital reading and navigation skills
In the information age, equal access and use of digital resources and new technologies has become a major policy objective in most industrialised countries.…
ICT@School - ICT in education Indicators Working Group
ICT@School is a Europe-wide working group hosted by EUN-Schoolnet aimed at enhancing the quality and the cross-national comparability of data regarding the availability of…