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Innovative policymaking

Innovative policymaking in a complex world: science, foresight and evaluation for policymaking and democracy.

Contributes to European Commission priorites

The EU faces multiple, simultaneous and complex challenges that require the best available science and collective intelligence. These challenges need a more agile, creative, collaborative, efficient and democratic policymaking process in the EU.

Our goals:

  • Anticipate new policy issues at an early stage by exploring new research avenues and filling gaps.
  • Integrate foresight, behavioural insights, modelling, values and identities into the policymaking process.
  • Enhance the capacity of the Commission to implement and assess impact of policies, and to communicate them to citizens.
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  • 24 FEBRUARY 2023
JRC portfolio 33: Innovative policymaking
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