Purpose and Scope

The purpose of this two-day workshop is to bring together policy analysts and researchers from the European Commission and the academia, to foster a practical exchange of ideas and experiences related to the impacts, uses and abuses of indicators, and to explore the implications for the design of scoreboards and indicator frameworks.

Programme

Thursday , 22nd March 2018

• Welcome and introduction
• Science driven, data drivern, policy driven - federating indicator communities - Walter Radermacher
• Making the best of unanticipated impacts - boundary work, statistical entrepreneurship, and ‘opening up’ indicators - Markku Lehtonen
• Enhancing the policy relevance of sustainability indicators: Experiences from Finland - Jari Lyytimaki
• Indicator-based assessment: A Path for a better Communication on Sustainable Development in Switzerland - Andre de Montmollin
• New challenges for indicator construction, use and communication - Filomena Maggino
• Indicators as reduction of complexity and uncertainty absorption technologies: A social systems perspective - Paul-Marie Boulanger
• Monitoring Sustainable Development in an EU context - Nicola Massarelli
• Is goal setting a good way to define global development agendas - Sakiko Fukuda Parr

Friday 23rd March 2018

• The ASEM Sustainable Connectivity Index - Marcos Dominguez-Torreiro
• The Resilience of EU Member States to the financial and economic crisis - Anna Rita Manca
• Model based synthesis of indicators - Maurizio Vichi
• A posetic toolbox for the construction of synthetic indicators - Marco Fattore
• Simplifying sustainable urban logistics indicators: is it possible? - Yari Borbon Galvez
• The Social cost of unemployment - Antonio Villar

Agenda

Workshop agenda

Venue

Joint Research Centre, Room 100/1003 (Acqua), via Enrico Fermi 2749, 21027, Ispra (IT)