Helping policymakers build a future-ready Europe
We combine creative problem solving and scientific rigour to tackle Europe’s most complex, interconnected challenges: from technology to sustainability transitions, strengthening preparedness for future risks and more.
Working with policymakers, experts and citizens, we help institutions navigate uncertainty and design resilient, future-oriented and evidence-based policies.
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Shaping a fairer Europe for all generations: discover how the EU Policy Lab helped the co-creation of the first EU Strategy on Intergenerational Fairness with citizens, experts and institutions — and explore the tools to put it into practice.
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The EU Policy Lab launched a policy experiment exploring how a trauma‑informed approach can enrich ongoing work such as the Directorate-General for Agriculture work on Generational Renewal in Agriculture.
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Across Europe, ambitious environmental policies have been multiplying, most notably under the European Green Deal. Yet translating these commitments into practical change is often uneven, slow, or incomplete. Read on to learn why this happens and can be done about it.
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The EU Policy Lab way
We work through ‘policy labs’: collaborative spaces where we combine foresight, behavioural insights and design for policy to rethink how policies are conceived, tested and implemented.
Each project is a tailored journey. We bring together civil servants, researchers, stakeholders and citizens, using a custom mix of methods and evidence to identify root causes, question assumptions, stress‑test options and co‑create effective, inclusive responses.
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When artists, scientists, and policymakers collaborate over time, new forms of sense-making become possible: weak signals are detected earlier, insights flow across disciplines, and the very definition of what counts as evidence broadens.
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The Future-Oriented Policymaking (FOP) project, in partnership with the Reform and Investment Task Force (SG REFORM), invites policymakers all over Europe to learn new ways of approaching policymaking.
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The EU Policy Lab launched a policy experiment exploring how a trauma‑informed approach can enrich ongoing work such as the Directorate-General for Agriculture work on Generational Renewal in Agriculture.
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- Foresight
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Across Europe, ambitious environmental policies have been multiplying, most notably under the European Green Deal. Yet translating these commitments into practical change is often uneven, slow, or incomplete. Read on to learn why this happens and can be done about it.
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The Foresight Hub’s goal is to build foresight capacity among European Commisison Blue Book trainees, foster cross-service collaboration, and create dedicated spaces for young people to contribute their perspectives to EU policymaking.
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The future of ocean observation will not be driven by a single solution, but by convergence - technological and human. It will rely on integrating diverse sensors, autonomous platforms, and AI-enabled analytics.
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Its a wrap! After more than three years of research, experimentation and collaboration, we are proud to announce the publication of the Technical Proposal for an EU Harmonised Waste Sorting Labelling System.
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As the EU moves forward on its pledge to put Intergenerational Fairness (IGF) at the heart of its policymaking, the visioning phase has become an inspiring journey, filled with creative aspiration, honest dialogue and the practical tools we’ll need to build a Europe where every generation thrives.
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How will today’s democratic shifts shape the Europe of tomorrow? What new paths might develop in the EU's democratic landscape and how can these imagined futures equip policymakers to act more decisively today?
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