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This paper offers a critical perspective on the 'norms' and 'forms' of evaluation in relation to participatory arts in general, and digital storytelling in particular. The evaluation of arts-based community interventions, presents numerous challenges and opportunities. These include balancing the economic and political imperatives of funding bodies with the desire to establish recognition and reputation with a like-minded community of interest, according to shared notions of practice, identity and value. Evaluation is often reduced to monitoring, evidence gathering and advocacy in order to meet the expectations of funders and commissioners. However, evaluation can be a genuine opportunity for critical reflection on the value of a project for all partners and participants. Drawing on examples, this paper will examine the relationship between the values that underpin a project, organization or programme of work and how they are they can be incorporated (or not) into an evaluation of its success. Examining the EU funded projects 'Extending Creative Practice' and 'Silver Stories', the paper will look at how the stories and visual materials produced through these projects interplay within an evaluation context which might reach beyond the commissioned framework. Addressing issues of translation in multipartner projects, the paper also aims to understand the processes involved in unpicking the local, national and transnational contexts of these visual arts projects. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Popularity of one kilometre scale global geophysical models is continuously growing in Europe. In this study, we increase the resolution of the NEMO ocean model, to better identify technical limitations of the present implementation and deduce, from the performance measured on one of our top supercomputers, the hardware characteristics needed to routinely use a global ocean one kilometre configuration. 24,000 Intel Broadwell cores of the Météo-France supercomputer are required to measure the performance of a simplified version of NEMO global kilometre scale. From them, assuming a perfect scaling up to 9,000,000 (nine million) computing cores, we infer that we could target a maximum speed of approximately 2 SYPD with the ORCA-Km global model. ; ESiWACE has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 675191

Young people's participation is an urgent policy and practice concern across countries and context. This book showcases original research evidence and analysis to consider how, under what conditions and for what purposes young people participate in different parts of Europe. Focusing on the interplay between the concepts of youth, inequality and participation, this book explores how structural changes, including economic austerity, neoliberal policies and new patterns of migration, affect the conditions of young people's participation and its aims. With contributions from a range of subject experts, including young people themselves, the book challenges current policies and practices on young people's participation. It asks how young people can be better supported to take part in social change and decision-making and what can be learnt from young people's own initiatives