Date: 19 March 2025
Time: 09:00 - 18:00 (CET)
Location: nhow Brussels Bloom Hotel Rue Royale 250, 1210 Brussels, Belgium (in-person)
Online access: Follow the conference online
Please note that attendance for this event is on a first-come, first-served basis. We encourage you to register early to secure your spot.
We are excited to invite you to the final conference of the ‘Building Capacity for Evidence-Informed Policymaking in Governance and Public Administration in a Post-Pandemic Europe’ project. The event will take place on 19 March 2025 in Brussels, and will bring together policymakers, scientists and knowledge brokers from across Europe.
Over the past two years, the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre and the OECD have worked with seven EU Member States – Greece, Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and the Netherlands – to support reforms towards a greater uptake of evidence-informed policymaking (EIPM) practices. Notably, through in-depth analyses of the political and scientific landscapes, the Technical Support Instrument (TSI) project has produced tailored country roadmaps offering recommendations to strengthen evidence-informed policymaking in governance and public administration across the participating Member States.
The final conference marks the end of the project and serves as an opportunity to review its achievements and key findings, but also to look ahead and chart the way forward for EIPM in Europe.
The event will feature:
The launch of the final project report summarising the main lessons of the project and formulating the future EIPM agenda;
High-level panels and plenary discussions on emerging topics such as coordinating the EIPM ecosystem, assessing the impact of EIPM, and the role of AI in evidence-informed policymaking;
Parallel sessions on key elements of EIPM, including the professionalisation of knowledge brokers and building trust with EIPM;
Networking and exchanges with policymakers, scientists, and knowledge brokers from across Europe.
AGENDA:
9:00-10:00 | Registration and welcome coffee
10:00-10:45 | Opening remarks
10:00 - 10:15 | Bernard Magenhann, acting Director General; Joint Research Centre, European Commission
10:15 - 10:30 | Loes Mulder, Secretary General of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Netherlands
10:45-11:30 | EIPM – a basis for sound policymaking
This high-level panel will reflect on the strategic policy rationale for EIPM in the current political environment, on the EIPM's role in addressing future challenges for our democracies, and on the political support as necessary to fulfil EIPM’s potential.
Bernard Magenhann, acting Director General; Joint Research Centre, European Commission (moderator)
Judit Rózsa, Director, SG REFORM, European Commission
János Bertók, Deputy Director, Public Governance, OECD
Andrzej Szeptycki, Undersecretary of State, Ministry for Science and Higher Education of Poland
Laimonas Rudys, Chancellor of the Office of the Government, Lithuania
11:30-12:20 | EIPM in action – its practical impact and how to achieve it
This high-level panel will focus on the rationale for EIPM on a more practical level. Drawing on perspectives from member states, which participated in the project, it will explore expectations and experiences about the role of EIPM in, for instance, increasing the efficiency of the law-making process and public administration in general, increasing citizen’s trust in public institutions or enabling policymakers to anticipate and address future challenges.
Jolita Butkeviciene, Director, Joint Research Centre, European Commission (moderator)
Karel Blaha, Advisor to the Head of the Office of the Government, Czech Republic
Jānis Paiders, Deputy State Secretary for Human Capital, Research and Innovation, Latvia
Loes Mulder, Secretary General of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Netherlands
Josep Lobera Serrano, Head of the National Office for Science Advice, Prime Minister Office
Pedro Saraiva, Director of PlanAPP, Portugal
12:30-13:30 | Lunch
13:30-13:40 | Short statements: the Netherlands, Greece, Czech Republic (dialogue facilitator: Athina Manta, Policy Officer, SG REFORM)
13:40-14:20 | Coordinating the EIPM ecosystem – strategies and incentives
Agnieszka Gadzina-Kołodziejska, Deputy Head of Unit S.2, Joint Research Centre, European Commission (moderator)
Roman Matoušek, Adviser to the Minister, Ministry of Regional Development, Czech Republic
Marc Vanholsbeek, DG Coordination, BELSPO, Belgium
Agnė Vilkončiūtė, Director of the Government Strategic Analysis Centre (STRATA), Lithuania
Lorenzo Melchor Fernandez, Senior Adviser, National Office for Science Advice, Prime Minister Office, Spain
Katrin Kiisler, Head of R&D Policy Department, Ministry of Education and Research, Estonia
Evi Dramalioti, General Secretary of Coordination at the Presidency of the Government, Greece
14:30-14:45 | Short statements: Belgium, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (dialogue facilitator: Athina Manta, Policy Officer, SG REFORM)
14:50-15:30 | Parallel sessions 1: key elements of EIPM
A: Assessing impact of EIPM
Stephane Jacobzone, Senior Advisor, OECD (moderator)
Kristian Krieger, Head of Sector Feedback to Policy & External Communication, REA, European Commission
Valerie Pattyn, Associate Professor in Public Policy and Policy Analysis, Institute of Public Administration of Leiden University
Margareta Theelen, Head of Unit A.5 (Quality Improvement and Impact), Joint Research Centre, European Commission
Trudy Duffy, Principal Officer - Head of Evidence for Policy, Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Ireland
B: The professionalisation of knowledge brokers
Anne-Greet Keizer, Policy Analyst, Joint Research Centre, European Commission (moderator)
Gintaras Valinčius, Chairman of the Research Council of Lithuania
Külliki Tafel-Viia, Science adviser, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, Estonia
Patrick Flammarion, Deputy Director General of Expertise and Support for Public Policies, INRAE
Ana Elorza Moreno, Coordinator of Oficina C, Spanish Parliament, Spain
15:30-15:50 | Coffee break
15:50-16:40 | Parallel sessions 2: emerging topics on EIPM
A: Trust and EIPM
David Mair, Head of Unit S.2, Joint Research Centre, European Commission (moderator)
Johannes Starkbaum, Senior Researcher, Institute for Advanced Studies, Austria
Marianna Prats, Policy Analyst, OECD
Frans Brom, Secretary of the Council and Director of the WRR Office, WRR, the Netherlands
B: The role of AI in EIPM
Elias Kock, Policy Analyst, Joint Research Centre, European Commission (moderator)
Julien Gosse, Policy Analyst, Joint Research Centre, European Commission
Kristel Kriisa, AI Advisor to Secretary of State, Estonia
Aymeric Floyrac, Deputy head of data science, General Inspectorate of Finance, France
George Tsomidis, Economic Analyst, MEKY, Greece
16:45-17:15 | EIPM – the way forward
Jolita Butkeviciene, Director, Joint Research Centre, European Commission
Kjartan Bjornsson, Head of Unit SG REFORM, European Commission
Stephane Jacobzone, Senior Advisor, OECD
17:15-18:00 | Cocktail reception
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We look forward to having you with us!
| Event date | 19 Mar 2025 - |
| Event location | Brussels, Belgium |
| Related project & activities | Introducing the multi-country Technical Support project on building capacity for evidence-informed policymaking |
| Related organisation(s) | OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentJRC - Joint Research CentreDG REFORM - Structural Reform Support |
| Knowledge service | Metadata | Evidence-Informed Policy Making | Reforms for Science for Policy in 7 Member States |