BLOG POST | 20 March 2026 COIN Open Day 16/04/2026 - NECI National Environmental Composite Indicator A COIN Open Day brings together your organisation with scientists from the Competence Centre on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards (CC-COIN) to discuss how to further improve your index...
BLOG POST | 20 March 2026 COIN Open Day 14/05/2026 - Urban Regeneration Social Impact Index (URSII) A COIN Open Day brings together your organisation with scientists from the Competence Centre on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards (CC-COIN) to discuss how to further improve your index...
BLOG POST | 23 January 2026 When Evidence and lifeworld Collide: Exploring Societal Resistance to Inconvenient Facts Reflections from a Community of Practice discussion on what S4P can do about the paralyzing discomfort that scientific facts trigger.
BLOG POST | 23 January 2026 Strategic Foresight, Climate-Resilient Militaries, and the Need for Stronger Evidence–Policy Bridges At a time when climate risks translate increasingly into geopolitical pressure, strategic uncertainty, and operational challenges, the question of how military and political institutions navigate complexity has...
BLOG POST | 12 December 2025 Normative aspects in evidence-informed policy advise What do you do when conflicting policy recommendations are both evidence-backed? Our reflex is to make such a discussion into a scientific debate: who has...
BLOG POST | 3 December 2025 Can science advice mechanisms be both independent and policy relevant? One of the fundamental tensions in the organization of science advice mechanisms is the tension between scientific independence on the one hand and proximity and relevance to policy-makers on the other hand. Both are...
BLOG POST | 25 November 2025 The Dark Horse of Science-for-Policy Ecosystems? Understanding how research agencies support evidence-informed policymaking As part of the community-led actions of the JRC's Community of Practice on Evidence-informed Policymaking, one action selected to be taken forward was to better understand the role of agencies implementing...
BLOG POST | 4 November 2025 | JRC - Joint Research CentreCommunity of Practice Day: Enhancing Europe’s Evidence-Informed Policy Community On 23 October 2025, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) hosted the second in-person meeting of the Evidence-Informed Policymaking (EIPM) Community of Practice (CoP) in Brussels. Taking place...
BLOG POST | 29 October 2025 When Community of Practice becomes catalyst for something bigger On October 23rd, the JRC hosted a gathering of the European Community of Practice on EIPM. During the workshop on knowledge management 4 teams competed with visionary concepts: from interactive visual...
BLOG POST | 22 August 2025 Realistic options for repurposing fertilizer subsidy spending Worldwide, government spending on subsidies in agriculture, fishing, and fossil fuels amounts to a staggering $1.25 trillion annually.