Our Lab generates behavioural insights through an empirical approach, with the goal of supporting EU policymaking by identifying behavioural elements in policies and testing behavioural levers to increase policy effectiveness.
Behavioural insights tools
Behavioural tools help understand how people think, decide and act in policy contexts:
- Behavioural diagnostics combining literature reviews, experiments, data analysis, stakeholder interviews and workshops and help understand behavioural drivers and bottlenecks and identify potential solutions.
- The behavioural systems approach, combining behavioural science with systems analysis, helps to consider interactions between behaviours, psychological drivers and structural conditions.
- Experimental methods (lab, online or field trials) are also used to test these solutions, including different narratives, choice architectures or procedures before scaling.
These tools can support the full policy cycle, from problem framing and option design to implementation and evaluation.
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Time is not a neutral backdrop to policymaking – questions of pace, timing and horizons have become central to what we govern. Learn more about our conversation at PolyFutures.
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How can policymaking become more rooted in how people think and decide? This was the starting point for the Discover Behavioural Insights for Policymaking workshop at the PolyFutures conference.
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If Europe is to navigate an age of overlapping crises, it needs to cultivate new cultures of governance, not just new tools. Here is how the PolyFutures event imagined them.
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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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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 do we better protect the natural world when biodiversity is under unprecedented threat? If we want to halt and reverse biodiversity loss, we need to address the behaviours that drive it and how we design policies. To do this, all actors in society are key.
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Find out how the EU Policy Lab has been co-creating Europe’s harmonised Waste Sorting Labels: lessons from our workshop series.
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Imagine a Europe where the voices of the young, the old, those yet to be born, and even the living world (animals, plants and ecosystems) are all heard and valued equally around the same table.
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