EYP evaluation and recommendations database analysis

Recommendations from 2009 – 20.03.2013

EYP Evaluations and Recommendations Database Analysis 1

Maria Manolescu (HR Officer) Andris Suvajevs (GB member in charge of HR)

Premises • On March 20th 2013, the database of EYP included 2188 recommendations submitted from 2009 onwards.

• The International Sessions taken into account are from Stockholm ‘09 until Amsterdam ‘12 (including).

• The recommendations of past IS presidents, including Zurich, have not been included in the count.

• National events include regional sessions, national sessions and forums (all sessions except International Sessions).

• Despite thorough efforts in updating the database and correcting small mistakes (misreported nationalities and year for instance), some inaccuracies might still be present.

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For any questions or comments, you can contact the HR Officer at hr@eyp.org

Clarification on Footnotes: • ‘Number of people, not of recommendations’ if person X received several recommendations in a session (for both chair and journalist, for example), he/she will only be counted once.

• ‘Count of recommendations’ person X will be counted twice, as he/she received one recommendation to chair and one to journalist.

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Romania and Ukraine are the only Eastern European countries with 25+ recommendations, while there are 12 such Western European countries Number of recommended people by country >40 25-40

5-24 1-4 0

•

6 NCs do not have any alumni with a recommendation.

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If we were to stop giving recommendations at this point, we would have…

Number of recommended people by recommendation type 755 Potential Full

162 531

•

Enough presidents and VPs for 15+ sessions;

222

•

Chairs – 30+ sessions;

•

Press team members – 50+ sessions.

593

Journalist

138 21

144 44

117

100

Ed. Ass.

Editor

Current recommendations pool maximum potential:

309

Chair

60 22 38

16 11 5

VP

President

These numbers are highly optimistic.

How many are still active?

How many were ever active?

5

* Number of people holding at least one recommendation.

There is gender equality in terms of recommendations yet the data is not conclusive as other factors (IS leadership positions) point to the opposite.

Number of recommended people by gender 375 380 Male Female

256

67 71

Ed. Ass.

70 74

Editor

Generally, there are more recommendations given for each role to female candidates.

•

Yet, in the past 6 ISs, in the leadership positions (HOs, Editors and Boards) females are severely underrepresented with 25 males and only 17 females in leadership positions.

275

24 24 Journalist

•

Chair

VP

4

4

President

6

* Count of recommendations, not of people recommended. * Full and potential recommendations are summed up.

Rank of the regional clusters based on the number of officials who attended the previous 6 ISs

Central-East

6

East

7

Western Balkans

8

North-East South-West South-East

Nordic Central-West North-West

• The North-West, Nordic and Central-West clusters clearly consist of the regions with the largest capacity for IS officials, leading the race by more than just a margin.

They have the most recommendations for every role.

16 20 25 27 39 59

• These regions have had the most representation in the past 6 ISs. We can draw a direct correlation between the number of recommendations a country has and its number of officials at ISs. 7

* Organisers have not been counted

Although more prevalent in some countries, national bias does not have a large impact on the total number of recommendations received Different nationality

100%

Same nationality

38 76 40 118 29 15 116 61 29 48 51 51 17 42 44 48 51 84 28 34 36 38 78 58

90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% NO UK CZ IE CY RS DE FI EE UA BE GR PT RO AT IT FR NL PL LV CH ES SE TR * The graph counts the recommendations one received, distinguishing between those received from a recommending official of the same nationality (blue) or of a different nationality (orange). If person X recommended person Y for three roles at session Z, person Y is counted once. Person Y will be counted for every time he/she was recommended. If person X recommended person Y at a different event, person Y will be counted twice. * Recommendations for IS organisers have not been counted. * Countries with 0 recommendations given by someone of the same nationality have not been counted.

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Regional bias Different cluster 329

31%

232

21%

North Central West West

146

177

155

16%

15%

14%

South East

North

South West

95

11%

47

Same cluster 64

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• Individuals representing the North-West region give one-third of all their recommendations to individuals from the same regional group. • Central-West gives every 5th recommendation to Central-West individuals.

6%

North Central East East

6%

5%

East

Western Balkans

* The graph counts the recommendations one received, distinguishing between those received from a recommending official from the same regional cluster (blue) or from a different one (orange). If person X recommended person Y for three roles at session Z, person Y is counted once. Person Y will be counted for every time he/she was recommended. If person X recommended person Y at a different event, person Y will be counted twice. * Recommendations for IS organisers have not been counted.

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Vice-presidents’ pool by regional cluster

North-West

Nordic

South East

North East

Central West

South West

Central East

Western Balkans

• North-West has three times more VP capacity than its nearest follower (more than the three next followers put together).

East 21

7

7

6

6

6 3

2

1

Vice-president

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* Count of recommendations, not of people recommended. * Full and potential recommendations are summed up.

Role attended when receiving a recommendation: national vs international events Number of people recommended by role in which they attended the event International - T: 344 National - T: 606 129

361 28

88

157

17 60

13 42

55

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* Number of people, not recommendations.

Top 5 national events in order of the number of people recommended after the session

1.

5.

Norwegian NS 2009

(14)

Ukrainian RS in Kiev 2012

(14)

German NS 2011

(14)

Istanbul Youth Forum 2011

(14)

Italian NS in Piacenza 2012 / Greek NS 2010 Polish RS in Wroclaw 2012 /

(13) 12

Top 5 international sessions in order of the number of people recommended after the session 1.

Frankfurt 2010

(106)

2.

Tallinn 2012

(103)

3.

Rh么ne-Alpes 2011 (99)

4.

Helsinki 2009

(98)

5.

Leuven 2009

(97)

894 delegates and 180 organisers received a recommendation after their IS.

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Delegates recommended to chair / journalist in the past 6 spring/automn IS

62

50

35

28

16

15

11

6

28

19

15

18

7 2

3 1

17 1

Chair

13 3

P. Chair

Journalist

39 16

41 9 20

17 6

10 2

• In the past 6 spring/autumn sessions, 9 chairs recommendations were given. That is 0.006% from all the participants. 117 recommendations to be a journalist were given – that is 8% of all participants.

P. Journalist * Number of people, not recommendations.

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Delegates recommended to chair / be a journalist in the past 3 summer IS • In the last 3 Summer ISs, 15 delegates have been recommended to chair – that is less than 2% of all participants. 121 were recommended to be a journalist which is 18% of all participants.

64

70

96

20

15

17

26

38

57

13 5

12 5

19

Frankfurt '10

Rhone-Alpes '11

Tallinn '12

Chair

P. Chair

Journalist

3

P. Journalist 15

* Number of people, not recommendations.

Average number of recommendations given to delegates spring/autumn IS vs summer IS

Spring/Autumn IS

Summer IS

•

+150%

40 •

+42%

+67%

15 +300%

1

17

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There is at least a 42% increase of given recommendations of every role at summer international sessions.

On average, 18% of all delegates get a recommendation after an IS. That is roughly 3 delegates per committee.

12 9

4 Chair

P. Chair

Journalist

P. Journalist

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The average number of EYPers receving a recommendation/evaluation after attending an IS

VP

2

HO

2

Chairs

10

Editors Ed. Ass. Journalists

• Whilst recent IS presidents have submitted evaluations for all their team members, it has not always been the case, namely for Stockholm ‘09, Tromso ‘10 and Lillehammer ’10.

2 1 13

Delegates Organisers

40 12

•If we get 246 people from ISs eligible for one of the 100 places available at an IS, then we have roughly 2.5 people competing for one place. However, we do have national events which also are a source of recommendations.

* Number of people, not recommendations. * Based on the previous 13 IS (2009 – 2012)

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The average number of EYPers receiving a recommendation/evaluation after attending a national event

Journalists

2,16

Editors

1,33

Chairs

2,18

HO

1,45

VP

1,67

0

0,5

1

1,5

2

2,5

• On average 4 people get recommended from an NS, but that does not mean that every country gets 4 more people eligible for ISs as these people can be foreign officials. • In the last four years, recommendations have been submitted following 105 national events 18 *Number of people, not recommendations. *Based on 105 national events. *Only events for which recommendations have been submited have been counted.

Conclusions • The current recommendation system is highly restraining and with apparent biases that consequently prevent many EYPers from being eligible to apply to International Sessions. • More people need to be enabled to apply to International Sessions by increasing the opportunities to acquire a recommendation. • EYP recommendations should stay in place as they provide an opportunity for young people to learn observing and reporting on their peer behaviour.

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For any questions or comments:

Maria Manolescu (HR Officer) hr@eyp.org Andris Ĺ uvajevs (GB member in charge of HR) a.suvajevs@eyp.org

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Annex I Recommendations by role in regional clusters

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Number of people recommended by role in regional clusters and countries Cluster Journalist Edit. Edit. assist.

Journalist (country) (pot.) assist. (pot.)

Central-East 24 4 3 HU 1 RO 21 4 3 SK 2 Central-West 118 17 25 7 AT 23 3 1 2 CH 17 3 3 1 CZ 14 4 1 DE 64 11 17 3 East 35 11 8 2 GE 3 1 RU 2 4 UA 30 6 8 2 North 98 29 13 4 SE 33 17 3 4 FI 40 6 8 NO 25 6 2 North-East 34 12 14 1 BY 2 1 EE 13 3 LT LV 8 7 6 PL 11 5 4 1 North-West 137 39 27 3 BE 29 4 5 IE 42 19 7 NL 35 7 9 2 UK 31 9 6 1

Editor 4 1 3

Editor (pot.)

1

Chair

VP

VP (pot.) President

President (pot.)

2

1

2

2

2

1

2

46 10 7 6 23 10 2 1 7 51 19 16 16 10

4

3 1

1

2 2 1

1 1

1

4

5 1 1

54 6 5 10 33 24 2 1 21 50 17 18 15 28 2 8

5

7 4 21 1 5 6 9

1 2 12 2 5 4 1

8 10 59 14 18 14 13

4 1 53 1 16 17 19

1 1 1 1 11 2 3 2 4

17 3 5 9 8

8 14 5 8 1 15

1 10 1 3 2 4 1

1 5 4 1

12 1 11

Chair (pot.)

2

1 4 1 2 1 4

4 2 2

2 1 1

2

3

2 1 1

1 1 7 1 1 3 2

1 1 1 2 1

1

1

1

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* Count of people recommended in each role

Cluster (country) South-East TR BG CY GR South-West ES FR IT PT Western Balkans AL HR RS Grand Total

Journalist 58 26 4 9 19 63 14 28 15 6 25 3 14 8 592

Journalist Edit. Edit. assist. (pot.) assist. (pot.)

17 10 3 8 5 2 5 4 26 8 8 8 2

1 4 13 2 3 5 3

7 1 4 2 162

3 1 1 1 116

1

Editor 9 3 1 5 7 1 3 3

1

Editor (pot.)

3 3

6 3 3

2 1

1

1 97

1 44

1

21

36 13 3 8 12 34 6 13 11 4

Chair (pot.)

21 9 2 4 6 20 2 6 9 3

12 1 8 3 309

9 1 7 1 222

Chair

VP 6 2 1 1 2 4 1 1 1 1

VP (pot.) President 1 1

2 1

2

1 1 1

President (pot.)

2

1 1 1

1

2 1 1 38

20

12

6

Number of people recommended by role in regional clusters Cluster Central-East Central-West East North North-East North-West South-East South-West Western Balkans Grand Total

Journalist 24 118 35 98 34 137 58 63 25 592

Journalist Edit. Edit. assist. (pot.) assist. (pot.)

4 3 17 25 7 11 8 2 29 13 4 12 14 1 39 27 3 17 10 3 26 13 7 162

3 116

1 21

4 17 8 14 15 21 9 7

Editor (pot.)

1 10 1 5 5 12 3 6

2 97

1 44

Editor

12 54 24 50 28 59 36 34

Chair (pot.)

2 46 10 51 10 53 21 20

12 309

9 222

Chair

VP 2 4 1 4 4 11 6 4 2 38

VP (pot.) President 1 3

2

4 2 7 1 2

2 3 2 2 1

President (pot.)

1 2 1 2

23 20

12

6

* Count of people recommended in each role

Annex II An in-depth look at recommendations by role in specific regional clusters 24

President’s pool by regional cluster

Nordic

North-East

North-West

Central East

South East

South West

Central West 3

3

• No president possible in the near future from East or Western Balkans

3

2

2

2

1

President

25

* Count of recommendations, not of people recommended. * Full and potential recommendations are summed up.

Vice-presidents’ pool by regional cluster

North-West

Nordic

South East

North East

Central West

South West

Central East

Western Balkans

• North-West has three times more VP capacity than its nearest follower (more than the three next followers put together).

East 21

7

7

6

6

6 3

2

1

Vice-president

26

* Count of recommendations, not of people recommended. * Full and potential recommendations are summed up.

Chairs’ pool by regional cluster

North-West

Nordic

Central West

South East

South West

North-East

East

Western Balkans

•

Central East 105

101

.

Although geographically close, the Nordic cluster holds roughly 3 times more recommendations to chair than North-East.

99 57

53 37

34

21

14

Chairpersons

27

* Count of recommendations, not of people recommended. * Full and potential recommendations are summed up.

Editors’ pool by regional cluster

North-West

Central West

Nordic

North-East

South East

South West

East

Central East

Western Balkans 34 25

19

19 12

12

9

5

4

Editors

28

* Count of recommendations, not of people recommended. * Full and potential recommendations are summed up.

Editorial Assistants’ pool by regional cluster

Central West

North-West

Nordic

North-East

South East

South West2

East

Western Balkans

Central East 33

32

17

14

13

13

10 4

3

Editorial Assistants

29

* Count of recommendations, not of people recommended. * Full and potential recommendations are summed up.

Journalists’ pool by regional cluster

North-West

Central West

Nordic

South West

South East

North-East

East

Western Balkans

• 34% of all our recommendations are for journalists. That is a clear indicator of EYPers’ perception that the position of a journalist requires less skills than any other position or that the needed skills are much more easily acquirable.

Central East 167 135

127 89

75

46

46

32

28

Journalists

30

* Count of recommendations, not of people recommended. * Full and potential recommendations are summed up.

Pool size for the Nordic Regional Cluster • No Danish EYPer holds a recommendation.

Norway Sweden Finland

Denmark 127 101

46

34 3 2 1

President

50

36 4 7 3

31

19 9 9

VP

Chair

Editor

17 1

7

8 2

Ed.Ass.

31

Journalist

* Count of recommendations, not of people recommended. * Full and potential recommendations are summed up.

31

Pool size for the North-East Regional Cluster

Estonia Latvia Lithuania Poland Belarus

46 1

37

16

1 11 12

1 1

3

1

President

1 2

6

1

13

19 6 8 5

2

VP

Chair

Editor

14 5 6

Ed.Ass.

15 14 3

Journalist 32

* Count of recommendations, not of people recommended. * Full and potential recommendations are summed up.

Pool size for the East Regional Cluster • No EYPers from Azerbaijan and Armenia hold a recommendation.

Ukraine

Russia

Georgia

Azerbaijan

• There’s currently no president candidate from this regional cluster.

46 4 6 36

34 4

0

1

President

VP

2 28

Chair

9

10

9

10

Editor

• Ukraine has 82% of all recommendations to chair in the East cluster, but no presidential recommendation.

Ed.Ass. Journalist * Count of recommendations, not of people recommended. * Full and potential recommendations are summed up.

33

Pool size for the Western Balkans Regional Cluster

• No EYPers from Macedonia and Kosovo hold a recommendation.

Serbia Croatia Albania Macedonia

• There’s currently no

32 4 21 2

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candidate to preside from this regional cluster.

• Croatia’s lead owes much to the IS in Zagreb.

15 0

President

1

4

2

VP

4

2

4

9

Chair

Editor

1

1

10

2

Ed.Ass. Journalist * Count of recommendations, not of people recommended. * Full and potential recommendations are summed up.

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Pool size for the Central-East Regional Cluster

• No EYPers from Moldova hold a recommendation.

Romania Hungary Slovakia Moldova

• 89% of all recommendations in Central-East are for Romanian EYPers.

28 2

1

25 14 1 13 2

3

President

VP

5 4

Chair

Editor

1

• The WesternBalkans and CentralEast regional clusters could not even cover officials’ teams for one year.

3

Ed.Ass. Journalist * Count of recommendations, not of people recommended. * Full and potential recommendations are summed up.

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Pool size for the Central-West Regional Cluster

• Germany holds 55% of chair and journalist recommendations in Central-West group.

Czech Rep. Germany Austria Switzerland 135

20

99 12 16 55

1 President

1

6

3

3

VP

16

Chair

26 25 6 13 5

75

33

1

Editor

4

21 5

3 14

Ed.Ass. Journalist * Count of recommendations, not of people recommended. * Full and potential recommendations are summed up.

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Pool size for the South-East Regional Cluster

Cyprus Turkey Greece Bulgaria

75 4 57 5

23

18 34

12 1

President

3

17

VP

2 1

12

Chair

13

12 5 6

9

22

1

Editor

7

5

1

14

Ed.Ass. Journalist * Count of recommendations, not of people recommended. * Full and potential recommendations are summed up.

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Pool size for the South-West regional cluster

Spain Portugal Italy France

89 36

53

19 1

2

2 6

1 2

President

VP

19

1 1

7

8

Chair

• One of the biggest countries in Europe – Spain – has less chair recommendations than Latvia.

23

3 3

12 5 1

Editor

3 3

13 5

2

Ed.Ass.

8 22

Journo 38

*Count of recommendations, not of people recommended. * Full and potential recommendations are summed up.

Pool size for the North-West regional cluster

UK Netherlands

Belgium 167

Ireland

61

105

2

3 1

President

4

21

5

VP

6 6

35 15 31 24

Chair

33 5

10

34

4 7 9 13

Editor

8

32 5

7

Ed.Ass.

31

Journo 39

*Count of recommendations, not of people recommended. * Full and potential recommendations are summed up.

Recommended EYPers per country (>40)

•

74 58

DE

IE

50

SE

47

45

43

40

FI

UK

NL

FR / NO / BE

The first 7 countries in terms of number of recommendations come from three regional clusters Central West, North West and South East.

40

* Number of people, not recommendations.

Recommended EYPers per country (>10) •

37

Turkey and Ukraine’s fairly high numbers can be explained by the number of sessions each NC organises every year, as well as the fact both have had IS recently. The more you organise, the more recs you get.

36 30

28

26

24

23

20

19

18 14

TR

UA

RO

HR

GR / IT

AT

ES

CZ / PL EE/CY/CH

LV

PT

11

RS

41

* Number of people, not recommendations.

Recommended EYPers per country (<10)

6

RU

6

BG

5

GE

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6 NCs will not be represented in the officials teams of an IS unless we alter the system.

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The 9 countries with the least number of recommendations (except the 6 that do not have one at all) have never hosted an IS.

4

AL

2

2

2

SK

BY

HU

1

LT 42

* Number of people, not recommendations.