Evidence-Informed Policy Making

The ‘Stronger Together’ conference on evidence-informed policymaking, under the auspices of the current 6-month Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU, will bring together renowned scholars from academia and key...

COVID-19 was a wake-up call. Scientists and science advisors were catapulted into the spotlight, finding themselves standing next to Prime Ministers, Presidents, and Chancellors across the world...

More than 225 people attended the meeting " Ciencia para las políticas públicas en España" that was opened by Spanish Acting Minister of Science and Innovation...

Boost evidence-informed policymaking in European regions and cities through a variety of tools like innovation camps, training courses, and pairing schemes.

Co-creation process to develop an evaluation framework to assess the capacity for science for policy in the EU Member States between Dec 2021 and April 2023.

Different motivations of actors can constrain evidence use for sustainability. We outline the most important barriers and illustrate them for the example of pesticide policy and practice.

On 2 December 2022, the Czech Presidency invited the EU-27 research ministers to discuss “science as an instrument to facilitate policymaking in the Member States” during the meeting of the Competitiveness Council...

Encouraging a well-informed debate on how policymakers in Europe can better use scientific evidence to inform policymaking and policy debates

Sasha Sebastianelli Vieira reports in this blog post from the launch debate event of the European Commission Staff Working Document “Supporting and connecting policymaking in the Member States with scientific...

Some important take-aways on the governance of evidence-informed policymaking in France, highlighted by a new report and confirmed by a recent JRC workshop.