Translation glossary

Horizontal principles, in the context of EU funded work, are core principles of importance that cut across and are relevant to all areas of the work of EU funded projects.

An impact evaluation provides information about the impacts produced by an intervention - positive and negative, intended and unintended, direct and indirect. This means that an impact evaluation must establish what has been the cause of observed changes (in this case ‘impacts’) referred to as causal attribution (also referred to as causal inference).

Implementation means carrying out the activities described in the work plan with the purpose of achieving objectives and delivering results.

In-kind contributions are contributions in the form of provision of works, goods, services, land and real estate for which no cash payment supported by invoices or documents of equivalent probative value has been made.

An index number is the number put on documents to allow for future easy reference; e.g., index numbers are often used by first level controllers to refer to documents checked.