Online participatory workshop
Date: 09 March 2022
Time: 14:30 – 17:30 (CET)

  • Are you working in a scientific institution or advisory group that provides evidence and/or advice to policymakers?
     
  • Are you working in a public administration that is mobilising scientific knowledge in support of policymaking?
     
  • Are you an expert examining what works well (or not) at the interface between science and policymaking?

The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) are organising an online participatory workshop on “Share your views – How to support and connect policymaking in the EU and Member States with scientific research?” for experts, stakeholders, and staff of European institutions working on science for policy issues and/or at the science-policy interface in the Member States and for EU policymaking. 

Views will be gathered through interactive discussions on three main questions:

  1. What is your vision for a vibrant EU science for policy ecosystem*?
     
  2. What mechanisms [policies, organisational structures, investments, processes and practices] make a real difference [in your country, sector, profession] in terms of bringing scientific knowledge into policymaking?
     
  3. What could the EU do to support these mechanisms? 

The views gathered will feed into the deliberations of the JRC and DG RTD in preparation of a Staff Working Document on “Supporting and connecting policymaking in the EU and Member States with scientific research”, which is foreseen to be published in June 2022.

  • Pre-registration has been closed as of 2nd March
  • All pre-registered users must have received a confirmation of reception of their pre-registration by 2nd March
  • Due to limited number of places, confirmation of registration will take place between the 3rd and 4th March
  • A waiting list will be made available to replace turned down invitations
  • Material for the participatory workshop (programme, input paper, etc.) will be sent by the 7th March

* Science for policy ecosystem is here understood as: “a complex of organisational structures and entities, processes, and networks that interact to support the mobilisation, acquisition, synthesis, translation, presentation for use, and application of scientific knowledge in policymaking processes.”