Competence Centre on Behavioural Insights

Sustainability labels convey information about different product attributes, such as its environmental impact, lifespan, or ethical performance. The labelling can be either positive...

As the European Union (EU) continues to deal with the increasing quantities of packaging waste and its environmental impact, one area of focus is the harmonisation of waste sorting labels across...

This Interim Report presents early results of the EU study to develop harmonised, evidence-based waste sorting labels for packaging and receptacles. The project evaluates the Nordic pictogram system...

The Water Resilience Experiment aims to contribute to the European Commission’s Water Resilience Strategy through the lens of design for policy and behavioural insights. The project focused on increasing cross-DG...

This report summarises the findings of a workshop session organised by the EU Policy Lab of the Joint Research Centre in the context of the 8th High-level meeting of the Expert Group on Public Administration...

The provisionally agreed (as of June 2024) packaging and packaging waste regulation requires EU Member States to implement harmonised waste-sorting labels. Applied to both packaging...

In an effort to anticipate innovative solutions for policies related to the European Green Deal on areas such as smart grids, demand response and renewable electricity integration into the grid, in the last...

Incentivising prosocial and pro-environmental behaviours is a sensitive endeavour. While behavioural change is urgently needed to mitigate the consequences of climate change, monetary interventions often have negative...

This behavioural experiment with farmers assessed the effect of two policy features of the new green architecture of the EU common agricultural policy on the adoption of environmentally friendly practices: (1)...

The European Union is committed via legally binding targets to reduce per capita food waste at the retail and consumption stage. This requires realising profound behavioural change in diverse political...