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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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Are you a packaging, waste management, waste sorting or waste sorting labels professional? Are you interested in taking part in a participatory design workshop to co-design an EU Waste Sorting Labels System? Join our call for expression of interest!
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Are you an innovation, design or policy lab in the EU? Are you interested in issues surrounding water resilience? Join our call for expression of interest!
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- Behavioural insights

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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