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Foresight, it seems to be on everyone’s lips these days. But what is it exactly? And more importantly, how can policymakers use it in their daily work? This is why we designed a "menu" to help guide you through the options.

  • 2 min read
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  • Foresight
  • News article

Complex (or ‘wicked’) problems require adaptive solutions. By failing to address the variables of human behaviour, the effectiveness of policies can also be reduced.
This is where Behavioural insights come in: to bridge this gap and uncover behavioural interlinkages often not considered in policy.

  • 5 min read
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  • Behavioral insights
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  • News article

Some exciting news from our project to harmonise waste sorting labels across the EU! 
Over the last few months the EU Policy Lab, together with consortium leader Open Evidence and the behavioural design agency Krukow, have developed a prototype for harmonised waste sorting labels.

  • 4 min read
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  • Design for policy
  • Behavioral insights
  • News article

In a world where the only constant is change, policymakers are faced with an accelerating pace of global shifts, uncertainty and unforeseen events that make long-term planning impossible.

  • 3 min read
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  • Foresight
  • News article

Futures Garden is an experimental project of the Joint Research Centre’s EU Policy Lab to generate new policy ideas with citizens and policymakers to help shape a better future for Europe. We are now proud to announce the public launch of two innovative ‘artefacts from the future’.

  • 4 min read
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  • Foresight
  • Behavioral insights
  • Design for policy
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  • News article

Our regular readers may remember the launch of our ambitious design and behavioural insights projects aiming to Harmonising waste sorting labels across the EU (europa.eu). And we’ have been busy.

  • 4 min read
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  • Design for policy
  • Behavioral insights