Search Knowledge for policy

In this blog entry, we present some of the recent organizational and legal innovations undertaken by the Spanish government aiming to reinforce the science-for-policy ecosystem in the country. We also discuss...

This blog post is part of a series of blog posts about the multi-country project under the Technical Support Instrument (TSI) “Building capacity for evidence-informed policymaking in public administrations...

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...

The topic of this report is highly convoluted and even complex: namely how to monitor the use of scientific knowledge and evidence in policymaking. The purpose of such monitoring is to contribute to the improvement of evidence...

This report sets out a conceptual map for potential elements of a science-for-policy advisory ecosystem. The aim of this map is not to propose an ideal system, but rather to highlight how elements...

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

In March 2022, the Joint Research Centre held an online workshop on the topic “Constructing assessment indicator dashboards for evidence-informed policymaking”. As part of the preparations to the workshop, I wrote...

The Joint Research Centre, engaged on a long-term project on how to support evidence use in policymaking across the EU, invited me to spend some time thinking about...

This "single-ecosystem" workshop is organized around a group of officials and science for policy professionals from one Member State who discuss - with a group of international experts - one...