Evaluation of the "Broadband Austria 2020" Initiative – Deliverable 2

The third interim evaluation of the funding programme Broadband Austria 2020 reports on the entire programme period (2015-2021) of all funding channels and offers the first econometrically oriented impact analyses of the subsidies granted in anticipation of the final ex-post evaluation. In addition to detached case studies on individual subsidy projects, the focus of the this interim report was primarily on the preparation of the final evaluation. In a comprehensive feasibility study, the European evaluation plan, which was in great need of revision, was operationalised by subjecting the evaluation questions and the data basis necessary to answer them to a thorough revision. The answers to selected evaluation questions allow initial conclusions to be drawn about the funding impacts already now.