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The Design team is the creative catalyst of innovation in policymaking.
We provide content, processes, and support to policymakers to tackle complex problems in a collaborative way. We run qualitative research, ask fundamental questions, challenge assumptions and test ideas that can lead to innovative solutions.
We synthesize and make sense of information, visualize systems and interactions, give form to policy concepts and make them tangible and relatable.
We identify user and system needs, engage stakeholders and facilitate cross-teams, sciences and policy collaboration and experiments to bring new practical and radical perspectives to current and future challenges.
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Harmonising waste sorting labels across the EU
Making waste sorting more effective: A participatory design and behavioural science approach to developing harmonised waste sorting labels for the EU.
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- Behavioral insightsDesign for policy
Farmers of the Future
The aim of the study is to identify possible future professional roles of farmers in 2040 and to explore potential implications for relevant EU policies. The study will combine different methodological approaches and is exploratory in nature
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- ForesightDesign for policy
The Canvas for Social Economy, a design method for regenerative economies.
The Social Economy Canvas is a visual sense making framework inspired by design and by complex-adaptive systems theory. It intends to provide policymakers with an ongoing, bottom-up, macro-assessment of social economy in Europe
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- Design for policy
Citizen engagement, a design challenge?
Citizen engagement, a design challenge? a conversation that re-enacted and summarized very well many contemporary online and offline debates and rants on participatory democracy and citizen engagement
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- Design for policy
Exploring the stakeholder consultation process
the Commission published “Better regulation for better results – An EU agenda“, a communication on improving “both what the European Union (EU) does, and how it does it“.The document focused on the importance of consulting more and better with all stakeholders, to increase transparency
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- Design for policy
Lab Connections
Policy lab in Europe, for Europe. On the 17th and 18th of October 2016 the EU Policy Lab hosted the first meeting of European policy labs. The event was the first opportunity to generate a community of practitioners and policy-makers at several level
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- Design for policy
Co-designing a “bottom-up” community to improve the management of European Regional Development Funds – REGIO KnowShare
The EU Policy Lab together with the Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (REGIO) co-designed a “bottom-up” community for the national and regional public administrations that manage the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
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- Design for policy