Workshop Schedule

Friday, 20 June 2025

08h30	Registration
09h00	Opening Session
	Plenary 1 (Chair: Ana Camanho)
09h15	Science for Policy in the European Commission: Examples from the field of social sciences Sylke Viola Schnepf (European Commission)
	Session 1 (Chair: Flávia Barbosa)
10h00 10h15 10h30 10h45	Learning mobility in European higher education: How has the Union’s flagship initiative progressed? Miguel Alves Pereira1, Giovanna D’ Inverno2, Ana Camanho3 1 CEGIST, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa 2 Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università di Pisa 3 Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto De-Efficiency of Italian Universities: a comparative analysis of Public, Private, and Online Institutions Gaetano Francesco Coppeta1, Tommaso Agasisti1 1 Politecnico di Milano A robust conditional assessment of performance trends in education and training systems of European regions Fernando Osório1, Flávia Barbosa1, Giovanna D’ Inverno2,3, Ana Camanho1 1 INESC TEC, Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto 2 Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università di Pisa 3 Faculty of Economics and Business, KU Leuven Assessing Educational Quality for Sustainable Development Goal 4: Insights from PISA Data Barbara Andrade1, Maria Conceição Silva2, Ana Camanho1 1 INESC TEC, Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto 2 CEGE, Católica Porto Business School
11h00	Coffee Break
	Session 2 (Chair: Audrone Jakaitiene)
11h30 11h45 12h00 12h15 12h30	A DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM TOWARDS PROACTIVE MANAGEMENT OF ACADEMIC SUCCESS: THE CASE OF UCP João Nuno Gonçalves1, Maria Conceição Silva1, Miguel Vilaça1 1 CEGE, Católica Porto Business School The Impact of Higher Education on Student’s Subjective Well-Being: Going Beyond Human Capital Theory. Herberto Rodriguez-Regordosa1,2, Juan Enrique Huerta-Wong3, Emili Tortosa-Ausina2 1 Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla 2 Universitat Jaume I 3 Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla Productivity in Danish schools Lajza Prekazi1, Cecilie Tandrup-Rasmussen1, Karsten Bo Larsen1 1 Center for Political Studies (CEPOS) Evaluating Operational Efficiency in European Higher Education Institutions Amid the COVID-19 Disruption Maria Gouveia1, Carla Henriques1, Rodrigo Cardoso1 1 Polytechnic University of Coimbra, ISCAC How is Well-being Important for Mathematics Achievements from PISA 2022? Audrone Jakaitiene1, Laura Ringienėo1, Rimantas Želvys1 1 Vilnius University
12h45	Lunch
	Plenary 2 (Chair: Miguel Alves Pereira)
14h00	The use of composite indicators in education: A tale of beauty contest and policy making Giovanna D’ Inverno (Università di Pisa)
	Session 3 (Chair: Hermilio Vilarinho)
14h45 15h00 15h15 15h30 15h45	Investigating Productivity Trends from 2010-2024 in Danish Municipal Expenditure on Management and Administration Using a DEA Based Malmquist Index Line Andersen1, Karsten Bo Larsen1 1 Center for Political Studies (CEPOS) A multi-level analysis of the impact of mental health on academic performance Xialing Kangs1, Miguel Alves Pereira2 1 Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa 2 CEGIST, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Financial Resilience and Efficiency in European Universities During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A VBDEA-Based Analysis Carla Henriques1, Maria Gouveia1, Rodrigo Cardoso1 1 Polytechnic University of Coimbra, ISCAC Operational and Social Efficiency Analysis of the Prison Units in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais Maria Eduarda Souza Costa1, Leandro Moreira Pinto2, Diogo Ferraz3, Enzo Barberio Mariano2 1 Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP) 2 Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) 3 Universidade de São Paulo (USP) A Composite Indicator Framework Integrating Regulator Perspectives for Assessing Water Service Quality Hermilio Vilarinho1, Miguel Alves Pereira2, Giovanna D’ Inverno3, Ana Camanho4 1 INEGI, Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto 2 CEGIST, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa 3 Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università di Pisa 4 Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto
16h00	Coffee Break
	Plenary 3 (Chair: Maria Conceição Silva)
16h30	Integrating Impact Assessment into Education System Performance Evaluation: Opportunities, Challenges and Applications Gabriela Sicilia (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona)
17h15	Closing Session

Plenary 1

Science for Policy in the European Commission: Examples from the field of social sciences.

Sylke V. Schnepf (PhD) is a senior policy advisor in the Science for Modelling, Monitoring and Evaluation Unit of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy. She is part of the Survey Methods and Analysis Centre (SMAC) team conducting research on survey design, fairness and loneliness. She also contributes to the Competence Centre on Microeconomic Evaluation through research, teaching and advisory activities on quantitative education policy evaluation. Before joining the JRC in 2014, she was an associate professor in social statistics at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. Dr Schnepf has a long publication record on patterns of cross-national educational inequalities and counterfactual impact evaluation of policies aimed at mitigating these inequalities.

Plenary 2

The use of composite indicators in education: A tale of beauty contest and policy making.

Giovanna D’Inverno is Associate Professor in Mathematical Methods for Economics, Actuarial Science and Finance at the Department of Economics and Management, University of Pisa (Italy). She is also Research Associate in the Leuven Economics of Education Research (LEER) center at KU Leuven (Belgium). She has a joint PhD degree (2018) from IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (Italy) and KU Leuven (Belgium) and a postdoc at KU Leuven in the Leuven Economics of Education Research (LEER) center. She is the author of several publications in top-ranked journals. Her research focuses on the development of quantitative methods and policy evaluation techniques to address policy-relevant issues, so to complement efficiency with effectiveness analysis in an integrated economic framework. Recurrent empirical applications mostly cover public economic issues and sustainability challenges, with particular attention on local government expenditure, education and water and waste management. She works on several national and international projects, including collaborations with consultancy agencies and policy makers.

Plenary 3

Integrating Impact Assessment into Education System Performance Evaluation: Opportunities, Challenges and Applications.

Gabriela Sicilia is an Assistant Professor of Operations Research in the Department of Business at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain). Her research focuses on measuring efficiency and productivity, as well as policy evaluation in the education sector. Specifically, she explores how to integrate insights from impact evaluation methods with non-parametric frontier techniques to improve the assessment of teachers, schools, and education systems, both from a theoretical and empirical perspective. Her work has been published in numerous top-ranked journals, and she is actively involved in several national and international research projects. Outside academia, Gabriela Sicilia has also worked at the Ministry of Economy, the Statistics National Institute and the Ministry of Social Development in Uruguay, and she regularly acts as a consultant to public agencies and international organizations.