Behavioural insights

We've just launched the process to design the next EU Strategy on Intergenerational Fairness. Found out more about how we did it.

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.

How can the EU safeguard fairness and fundamental rights when AI is used for decision making?

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.

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’.

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.

The EU Policy Lab Water Resilience Experiment is a design-driven participatory initiative aiming to integrate scientific evidence and knowledge from citizens, the media, stakeholders, and local initiatives related to water to inform innovative policymaking at the European Commission.

Are humans using artificial intelligence better at making unbiased choices? Is it enough to have humans oversee AI decisions to ensure fair and balanced decisions are being made? If yes, how? What does it take for systems to be trustworthy and fair?

The EU Policy Lab is paying close attention at misinformation – especially from a behavioural point of view.