The Conference, fully online, gathered more than 900 scientists and policymakers from EU, national and international organisations as well as academia and the private sector. Registration closed on 19 November 2021 (7 November for workshops and training).
NEW : The recordings, the book of abstracts and the presentations are now available ! Check the ‘recordings’ and ‘programme’ sections below.
Objectives
Tackling policy challenges requires making political choices, which must be transparently informed by evidence.
Models are extensively used to analyse the environmental, economic, and social impacts of policies. The European Commission makes use of models throughout the policy cycle and is committed to sound and transparent use of evidence in the framework of the Better Regulation policy and Open science principles.
The Conference brings together researchers and policymakers from European and international institutions, Member States, universities, research institutes and consultancies to identify common challenges and solutions when using models to support policymaking across all policy domains.
In 2019 the first edition of the Conference highlighted the need and added value for model developers and users to share knowledge and best practices. The programme of the 2021 Conference has been further enriched to provide additional opportunities of exchange between modellers and policymakers.
Keynote Speakers
The Keynote speeches will address the use of models to tackle high challenges, starting from specific experiences to then discuss lessons and best practices of relevance to the whole modelling community.
Modelling for the emergency: the Earth4All experience
Sandrine Dixson-Declève
Co-President, The Club of Rome; European Commission Advisor: Expert Group on the Economic & Societal Impact of Research and Innovation (DGR&I Think Tank ESIR, Chair), Technical Expert Group (TEG) on Sustainable Finance & Sustainable Finance Platform; Co-Chair UN Food System Summit- Resilience, Action Track 5; Advisory Boards: BMW, ClimateKIC, Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP), UCB, UCL-Bartlett School for Environment, Energy & Resources (Chair); Ambassador: Energy Transition Commission (ETC) & WeAll (Well Being Alliance); Senior Associate: Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) & E3G
Sandrine Dixson-Decleve is currently the Co-President of the Club of Rome and divides her time between lecturing, facilitating change in business and policy models and advisory work. She holds several advisory positions for the European Commission: Chair, Expert Group on Economic and Societal Impact of Research & Innovation (ESIR); Assembly Member, Climate Mitigation & Adaptation Mission (DGR&I); TEG Sustainable Finance Taxonomy and Sustainable Finance Platform (DGFISMA); The United Nations: Co-Chair, Food Summit Action Track 5 Resilience; and for companies/organisations/institutes such as BMW, EDP, UCB, Climate KIC, UCL-Bartlett School of Environment and the IEEP. Sandrine is also a Senior Associate and faculty member of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and a Senior Associate for E3G, Ambassador, for the Energy Transition Commission (ETC) and WEALL. In 2017 Sandrine co-founded the Women Enablers Change Agent Network (WECAN). Sandrine was recognised by GreenBiz as one of the 30 most influential women across the globe driving change in the low carbon economy and promoting green business. She has spent her career bringing together business leaders, policy makers, academia and NGO’s. Until recently, Sandrine was Chief Partnership Officer for UN Agency Sustainable Energy for All and prior to that the Director of the Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group and the EU office of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (2009-2016). During that period she was also appointed Executive Director of the Green Growth Platform bringing together EU Ministers and CEO’s.
Discussant: Tom Van Ierland
Head of Unit - Strategy and Economic Assessment, European Commission, DG Climate Action
Tom van Ierland joined the Commission in 2006. Within DG Climate Action he is head of unit C1, dealing with Strategy and Economic Assessment. This unit is closely involved in the development of the overall climate change policy framework both at the EU and international level and the economic modeling underpinning it. He started his career at the Belgian's Federal Planning Bureau in 1999 where he focused on emission trading. He was a member of cabinet of the Belgian Federal Minister for the Environment. He worked 2 years as consultant for Price Waterhouse Coopers. He has a broad experience both in the international negotiations on climate change as well as in the development of EU Climate Change policies. He holds academic degrees in Applied Economics, Environmental Economics and Computer Sciences from the University of Leuven and University College London.
Economic models and the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons for the future
Loriana Pelizzon
Head of the department "Financial Markets" and coordinator of Gender Equality at the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE; Professor of Economics at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and CEPR research Fellow
Loriana is the head of the Financial Market department and coordinator of Gender Equality at the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE and Full Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt, Chair of Law and Finance. She is also a Research Affiliate at MIT Sloan and Professor (tempo definito) of Economics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. She graduated from the London Business School with a doctorate in Finance. Her research interests are on risk measurement and management, hedge funds, market microstructure, financial institutions, systemic risk, sovereign risk and financial crisis. She was one of the coordinators of the European Finance Association (EFA) Doctoral Tutorial, member of the EFA Executive Committee and member of the BSI GAMMA Foundation Board. She has been involved in NBER and FDIC projects as well as EU projects (Marie Curie, FP7 and H2020), Europlace and Inquire Europe, EIEF, Bank of France projects, MIUR, DFG, and VolkswagenStiftung: Europe and Global Challenges. She was a member of the EIOPA’s Insurance and Reinsurance Stakeholder Group and is currently Co-Vice President of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board, member of the EU independent expert advice team in the field of financial markets and institutions and external Expert for the EU commission on digital currency and blockchain technology. She is also a CERP Research Fellow.
Discussant: Helen Johnson
Mathematical modeller at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.
She uses models to illustrate how infectious disease may spread and to develop scenarios for planning interventions. She works at the interface of science and policy and has a particular interest in quantifying and communicating uncertainty, and in training and supporting infectious disease modellers in EU/EEA Member States and beyond.
Modelling tools for policy support in (real) time of crisis
Alain de Serres
Deputy Director, Policy Studies Branch, OECD Economics Department
Alain de Serres is currently Deputy Director in the Policy Studies Branch of the OECD Economics Department. He has recently worked on economic and financial resilience and, prior to that, on the policy determinants of investment in knowledge-based capital, as well as on green growth policies and the economics of climate change mitigation. Part of his work has been published in journals such as Economic Policy, European Economic Review, Environmental and Resource Economics and the Journal of Economic Geography. Alain is Canadian and, before joining the OECD, has worked for many years at the Bank of Canada and the Ministry of Finance in Ottawa.
Discussant: Román Arjona
Chief Economist, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission.
Román Arjona is Chief Economist at the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs of the European Commission. He was Chief Economist and Head of Strategy and Foresight at the Directorate-General for Research & Innovation, and Vice-Chair of the OECD’s Committee for Science and Technology Policy (CSTP). He previously served in the Spanish government as Secretary-General for Science, Technology and Innovation, and before joining the Commission he was adviser to the Spanish State Secretary and the Spanish Minister for Science and Technology. Mr Arjona worked for the European Investment Bank and the International Monetary Fund as well as for the OECD as an economist. He is a former member of the World Economic Forum’s High-Level Advisory Group of the Europe Inclusive Growth and Competitiveness Lab, and of its Global Agenda Council on New Growth Models. Román graduated in Economics at the University of Valencia with a special distinction, and holds a Masters’ degree in European Economic Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges and a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute in Florence.
Recordings
Recordings will be available until November 2023
- recording 22 november
- recording 23 november
- recording 24 november
- recording 25 november (morning)
- recording 25 november (afternoon)
- recording 26 november
Programme
Programme at a glance (pdf) Book of abstract (pdf)
Workshops and training : main messages (pdf)
Note : CET time
| 22 November | |
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| 09:30 – 10:50 | Opening |
| 10:50 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 12:45 | Session 1 : Ensuring model quality |
| 12:45 – 13:30 | Lunch break |
| 13:30 – 14:50 | Session 2 : Transparency of models and their use |
| 14:50 – 16:20 | Contributed session 1: Co-design of modelling-based services for climate change adaptation related policy support under the EU DestinE Initiative |
| 16:20 – 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 – 18:00 | Workshop 1: Leveraging multidisciplinary tools and approaches for achieving the SDGs |
| 23 November | |
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| 09:30 – 10:50 | Welcome |
| 10:50 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 12:45 | Session 3 : Scenarios and data |
| 12:45 – 13:30 | Lunch break |
| 13:30 - 14:50 | Training 1: Social multi-criteria evaluation (SMCE) for ex-ante impact assessments |
| 14:50 - 16:20 | Workshop 2: We need to talk about models |
| 16:20 – 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 – 18:00 | Workshop 3: Strategic Foresight and quantification link for better future-oriented policymaking |
| 24 November | |
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| 09:30 – 10:50 | Keynote 3: Modelling tools for policy support in (real) time of crisis |
| 10:50 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 12:45 | Session 4 : Modelling complex systems for policy |
| 12:45 – 13:30 | Lunch break |
| 13:30 – 14:50 | Session 5 : Assessing and communicating uncertainty in model results |
| 14:50 - 16:20 | Contributed session 2: Modelling for the Banking Union |
| 16:20 – 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 – 18:00 | Workshop 4: Human models for human policies |
| 25 November | |
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| 09:30 – 10:50 | Session 6 : Multidisciplinary approaches, integrated assessment and model linkages |
| 10:50 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 12:45 | Session 7 : Using model related evidence for policy: processes and experiences |
| 12:45 – 13:30 | Lunch break |
| 13:30 – 14:50 | Training 2: An introduction to SIML@B: an online EC tool for global sensitivity analysis of models |
| 14:50 – 16:20 | Contributed session 3: Climate change adaptation modelling as a key support tool for evidence-based policies in a time of planetary crisis |
| 16:20 – 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 – 18:00 | Workshop 5: Impact By Design: How to create social science models that effectively address policy needs? |
| 26 November | |
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| 09:30 – 10:50 | Concluding session : Modelling for policy, main messages and the way forward |
| 10:50 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 12:45 | Poster session |
| 12:45 – 13:30 | Lunch break |
| 13:30 – 14:50 | Session 8 : Combination of qualitative and quantitative methods |
| 14:50 – 16:20 | Session 9 : Communication and visualisation of model results |
| 16:20 – 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 – 18:00 | Contributed session 4: Highlights from the EU Open Data Days: how open data can support policy-making |
Workshops and trainings
These interactive and participatory sessions, which complement the scientific programme, offer occasions of exchange of experiences and best practices for modellers and policymakers.
The workshops and trainings provide the opportunity of reflecting on modelling and beyond, with the objective of promoting sound evidence informed policymaking in the context of the EU Better Regulation policy.
Please note: workshops and trainings have a limited number of participants to preserve the interactive character of the sessions. Registration to workshops and trainings is open until 7 November 2021. Attendance will be confirmed ahead of the event.
Workshops and training : main messages (pdf)
Important dates
| 30 June 2021 | Extended abstracts submission |
| 15 September 2021 | Acceptance decision Registration opening |
| 30 September 2021 | Final submission of revised extended abstracts |
| 15 October 2021 | Deadline for registration - presenters |
| 7 November 2021 | Deadline for registration to workshops and training |
| 19 November 2021 | Deadline for registration - all participants |
Call for abstracts (closed)
Scientific Committee
The role of the Scientific Committee is to review and select oral abstract presentations.
Organising Committee
The Conference is organized by the European Commission Competence Centre on Modelling (CC-MOD).
Contact: EU-CONF-MOD@ec.europa.eu
| Event date | 22 Nov 2021 - 26 Nov 2021 |
| Related organisation(s) | JRC - Joint Research Centre |
| Knowledge service | Metadata | Modelling |