EU POLICY LAB
A COLLABORATIVE AND EXPERIMENTAL SPACE FOR INNOVATIVE POLICY-MAKING
HUMAN PERSPECTIVE
BEHAVIOURS, BIASES AND DECISION PROCESSES
CONTEXT AND COMPLEXITY
INSIGHTFUL CONVERSATIONS, DESIRABLE FUTURES
DESIGN FOR POLICY
SEEDING QUESTIONS, FRAMING IDEAS
WHAT WE DO
The EU Policy Lab is a collaborative and experimental space for innovative policy-making.
It is both a physical space and a way of working that combines
FORESIGHT
BEHAVIOURAL INSIGHTS
DESIGN THINKING
to explore, connect and find solutions for better policies.
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ANNE-KATRIN BOCK
EMANUELE CIRIOLO
JOANA SOUSA LOURENCO
RENÉ VAN BAVEL
SUSANA NASCIMENTO
ALEXANDRE PÓLVORA
LUCIA VESNIC-ALUJEVIC
ALESSANDRO RANCATI
EMANUELE CUCCILLATO
LAURENT BONTOUX
PAULETTE MATKOVIC RAMIREZ
TINE VAN CRIEKINGE
MACIEJ KRZYSZTOFOWICZ
ALICE SZCZEPANIKOVA
FABIANA SCAPOLO
MONIKA ANTAL
SARA ALMEIDA
XAVIER TROUSSARD
ECKHARD STOERMER
CHRISTIAN SVANFELDT
IOANA PROFIR
JOHANNA TRIEB
SARA GIOVANNINI
FRANçOIS DESSART
ELISABETA FLORESCU
By accessing diverse areas of knowledge, we strive to co-create, test and prototype ideas to address complex social problems and to enable collective change. The Lab invites policy-makers to explore scenarios, connect issues and find solutions for better policies, acting as a facilitator and providing a safe-space for open interactions. It delivers insights and works side by side with the services and agencies of the European Institutions, international bodies, public organisations, universities and research centres. The Lab’s main fields of practice are foresight, behavioural insights and design-thinking. The lab setting facilitates collaboration between policy-makers and society.
Foresight explores long-term futures and creates shared visions for policy-making.
Behavioural Insights result from multidisciplinary research in fields such as economics, psychology and neuroscience, to understand how humans behave and make decisions in everyday life.
Design thinking deploys people- and solution-centred processes to help stakeholders to innovate.
PROJECTS
We serve all Commission's Directorates and focus on the creation of bridges and synergies. A transparent, proactive and participatory approach guarantees a positive contribution by all the participating parties.
- All
- Completed
- Ongoing
FTA2018 – Future in the making 
Future of government 
Service design for better stakeholder consultation 
The future of migration in Europe 
#Blockchain4EU: Blockchain for Industrial Transformations 
Lab Connections 
Systematic behavioural support for European Commission services 
Behavioural insights applied to policy in Europe 
Foresight knowledge management tool 
Knowledge sharing for better implementation of EU Regional Policy 
Sustainable food system 
A vision for the EU “Sharing Economy” 
Future of industries
BLOG
A collection of news, notes, reflection on our workshops or events we attended.
7 May 2018#Blockchain4EU – Final Event Registration + Agenda NOW ONLINE!
The Final Event of #Blockchain4EU will take place on May 24 2018 at the European Commission headquarters, Berlaymont Building (Schuman Room) in Brussels. This event will gather policy makers, Blockchain stakeholders and others interested in the development or uptake of Blockchain and other Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) for non-financial / industry sectors. Registration is mandatory to enter the Berlaymont building. Furthermore, there is a limited number of 80 places available for the event. FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR
25 Apr 2018SAVE THE DATE! Final Event of #Blockchain4EU – May 24 2018, Brussels
The final event of the project #Blockchain4EU: Blockchain for Industrial Transformations will take place on May 24 2018 at the Berlaymont (Schuman Room), Brussels. We will gather Blockchain communities and other stakeholders interested in the development or uptake of Blockchain and other Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs), counting also with the presence of high level policymakers as Lowri Evans, DG GROW’s Director-General, and Vladimir Šucha, DG JRC’s Director-General. Throughout a full-day with multiple sessions, our main
13 Apr 2018How to design the future of government?
EU Policy Lab collaborates with six top design schools How might the relationships between citizens and government transform by 2030 and beyond? What does this mean for the role, structure and tasks of the government? The Future of Government 2030+ project ran citizen workshops to discuss future expectations of citizens and their relationship to the government. To enable creative speculations and out of the box thinking on possible alternative models of government, the EU Policy
13 Apr 2018Citizen dialogues on the future of government
From November 2017 to March 2018 the EU Policy Lab ran a series of highly relevant and timely discussions on the role of government today and in the future from a citizen perspective. Together with partner policy labs and universities in six Member States - Austria, Ireland, Malta, Poland, Spain and Sweden – and through an additional workshop with European civil society organizations and think tanks in Brussels, we were able to launch a dialogue
13 Apr 2018Citizens Discuss the Future of Government in Cork, Ireland
Cork County Council's Service Design team "Service rePublic" led by Julianne Coughlan invited 20 citizens to discuss the future of government, forms of participation and public service delivery on 26th of February, 2018, in the framework of the Future of Government citizen workshop. Participants were citizens active in public participation networks, representatives of citizen organizations, as well as less politically engaged citizens; and they were between 15 and 85 years old! Julianne Coughlan opened the
12 Apr 2018Citizen Dialogue on the Future of Government in Austria 2035
On 12th March 2018, GovLab Austria and the EU Policy Lab discussed possible future relationships between the citizen and the government. This citizen dialogue was set up in the context of the GovLab Austria project "Austria 2035 – the state and I" and the EU Policy Lab project "The future of government 2030+". The participants were a very interesting mix of civil servants from various agencies and different positions, representatives of companies, lectures and IT
12 Apr 2018Future of Government 2030+: Workshop in Stockholm
The eGovLab, University of hosted the workshop as a part of the project “The Future of Government 2030+: A Citizen Centric Perspective on Open Government” at its premises on March 5, 2018. Thirty eight citizens participated in the workshop The scope of the workshop was to inspire participants using design thinking tools and co-creating methodology to understand today's relationships between individuals/citizens and government in the areas of political decision-making processes and public service provision, to
Discussing the future of government in Malta
On 16 February 2018, the Department of Public Policy of the Faculty of Economics, Management and Accountancy, University of Malta organized a workshop on the Future of Government with the participation of twenty citizens. The sample was intended to have different distribution and representation of age, ethnicity, gender, education, profession, and religion. The aim of the workshop was to reflect on present issues regarding governments and their relationship with citizens and envisage future. At the
3 Apr 2018Third Workshop of #Blockchain4EU: Blockchain for Industrial Transformations
On March 15 we organised the third workshop of our project #Blockchain4EU: Blockchain for Industrial Transformations. As #Blockchain4EU is now coming to its end, this workshop was the last in our larger series of participatory and stakeholder engagement activities. You can read about our first workshop in July here and also have a look at our second workshop in November here. Project #Blockchain4EU: Blockchain for Industrial Transformations is a forward looking sociotechnical exploration of existing,
3 Apr 2018Understanding migration drivers and the role of policies: learning from the past and looking ahead
Migration is a hotly debated and politically charged topic at the heart of the EU's political agenda. Yet despite all the attention, it remains a surprisingly poorly understood phenomenon. In the EU Policy Lab, we have been trying to contribute to a nuanced and forward-looking discussion on the subject. We developed future migration scenarios together with a set of engagement processes to help the policy, academic and civil society communities come together and debate migration
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