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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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Chasing unpaid taxes weighs on administrations as it is time- and resource-intensive.
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An EU Policy Lab exploration of transformative actions for adaptive water governance
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A new tool for policymakers helps to explore the effects of polycrisis on their policy area
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- Foresight
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We've just launched the process to design the next EU Strategy on Intergenerational Fairness. Found out more about how we did it.
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How can the EU safeguard fairness and fundamental rights when AI is used for decision making?
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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.
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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’.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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