Evaluation, impact, evidence and decision-making

European technology, human-centred innovation and research translation

Horizon Europe work through STARHAUS extended the research line into technology-rich environments, where evidence must travel across disciplines, institutions and implementation contexts.

Resilience and self-reliance of Ukrainian refugees

Mapping, market research and needs assessment generated evidence on services, access, resilience and social conditions in a high-pressure humanitarian environment.

Digital Skills of Romanian Population

Examines the digital capabilities of the Romanian population and extends the research programme toward technological readiness, access and the social conditions surrounding digital transformation.

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences

Technology-supported access to justice

Applied research and programme design explored how technology can improve accessibility, transparency and service quality for disadvantaged citizens in urban and rural settings.

Quality of Life and public programme impact

Community-level evaluation for Cluj-Napoca and counterfactual assessment of the Regional Operational Programme connected evidence directly to strategic planning, programme effects and future public investment decisions.

Introducing a Model for Social Impact Assessment of Public Administration Reform in Romania

Develops a structured way of thinking about the social consequences of administrative reform, connecting institutional change with effects that can be observed and evaluated beyond formal implementation.

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, No. 36E

Going Counter to the Facts in Program Evaluation

Explores counterfactual reasoning and the challenge of separating change associated with an intervention from change that might have happened anyway, moving evaluation from description toward causal inference and institutional trust.

Revista de Cercetare și Intervenție Socială, 36

The Role of Program Evaluation in the Decision-Making Process

Places evaluation directly inside the decision process, at the point where evidence becomes an input into institutional trust, priority-setting and action.

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, No. 33E

Social Impact Assessment Models

Structures approaches to assessing social consequences and contributes to a methodological foundation for evaluating effects distributed across communities, organisations and public systems.

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, No. 29E

New Evaluation Model: PAEM

Proposes an evaluation model tailored to public administration, reflecting an early interest in building assessment architectures that match institutional complexity.

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, 24E

Evaluation Culture and Capacity in Romanian Public Institutions

Investigates whether evaluation is embedded as an organisational capability, connecting formal requirements with the deeper question of whether evidence is integrated into institutional practice.

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, 21E