PrEval – Zukunftswerkstätten

PrEval (Eva­luation and Quality Manage­ment in Extremism Preven­tion, Demo­cracy Promo­tion and Civic Education: Analysis, Moni­toring, Dialogue) is a research and transfer project that further develops and re­designs formats and structures to strengthen eva­luation and quality manage­ment in extremism prevention, demo­cracy promotion and civic edu­cation in Germany.

PrEval is an open net­work and invites everyone to join the dis­cussions in various workshops (“Zukunfts­werkstätten”) around needs for support services, know­ledge net­works and evaluation data­bases.

The pro­ject is funded by the German Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI)  with a du­ration from Oc­tober 2022 to December 2025.

News

New release: PrEval Monitor 2025

In the new edition of the PrEval Monitor, the PrEval research network presents the key findings from three years of collaborative project work. With recommendations for policy and practice, it provides important impulses for the sustainable strengthening of extremism prevention, democracy promotion, and civic education – in Germany and beyond. The Monitor serves as a foundation for the continuous development of evaluation and quality management in the field: both practical and scientifically grounded.

Download the German edition

The English version will be published in the beginning of 2026.

The PrEval Platform

Extended Data Basis

The PrEval Platform offers a systematic overview of evaluation capacities in the field of extremism prevention, democracy promotion and civic education in Germany.
The platform is maintained by the PrEval sub-project at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG).

To the platform

PrEval Symposium 2025

On November 24 and 25, 2025, we presented and discussed key findings and recommendations from PrEval’s multi-year project work with partners from professional practice, academia, and politics. In addition to many exciting program items, we also presented the PrEval Monitor 2025 that compiles the key results of our work. 

A report on the event and further information can be found here.

Ready for Evaluation with the PrEval Consultation Series

With the new PrEval consultation series “Evaluation and Quality Management”, we support civil society organizations in systematically integrating evaluation and quality management into their work. The series has been developed together with academia, civil society and administration and is currently being piloted.

All interested parties can already download the accompanying material for the consultation series free of charge. // Download

Sofie Lilli Stoffel examines why evaluations of prevention programs need to better reflect the realities of young people and advocates for adapted methods, appropriate indicators, and long-term impact measurement.

How can the quality and effectiveness of digitally supported counseling services be adequately assessed? And what methodological and ethical questions arise in this context? The new PrEval Study examines current developments in Germany, Europe, and selected international contexts.

The new PrEval Study provides recommendations for further development in this field and presents advanced methods, including those from media and communication sciences.

Author Abigail Watson shows: Extremism goes far beyond religiously motivated causes. Hybrid ideologies like misogyny or conspiracy thinking call for new approaches to prevention and assessment.

Susanne Giel’s PrEval Expertise analyzes the specific opportunities and limitations that characterize self-evaluation as a participatory and practice-oriented method – and how it must be designed in order to contribute to the impact orientation and quality management of organizations and programs.

In our new PrEval Expertise, Luzia Kromke and David Jeß present a goal-oriented quality cycle that enables self-evaluation in funding processes to be successful in a collaborative and impact-oriented manner.

Events

Information about past events of the PrEval project can be found here.

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