ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the development of the success criteria, lists them, and present criteria for evaluations. Practical criteria can be divided into three subgroups. Cognitive-attitudinal criteria include increased publicity, participant satisfaction toward public engagement (PE) processes, and acceptability. Competence-based criteria include development of new capacities, spin-offs and practices supporting sustainable development. Resource-related criteria include the creation of mutual benefits, mobilisation of resources, and instrumental usefulness. Classic criteria of evaluation, according to Georghiou and Keenan, include: appropriateness, efficiency of implementation and impact and effectiveness. The chapter provides the synthetic model of the PE evaluation that can be used as a tool for targeting the evaluations at different dimensions, prioritising between categories of evaluation criteria and selecting the most relevant evaluation criteria. The capacity-based obstacles result partly from an inadequate organisational competence, partly from inadequate methodological quality in developing well-functioning PE processes.
