Understanding and measuring

knowledge impact

on policies

Vladmír Šucha Director General

The European Commission’s science and knowledge service

Joint Research Centre

Dana Fradon, Filing cabinets labelled, New Yorker, 7 March 1977

Evidence in the current political climate

We are drowning in

information,

while starving for wisdom.

The world henceforth will be

run by synthesizers, people able

to put together the right

information at the right time,

think critically about it, and

make important choices wisely.

- E. O. Wilson (1998) -

Science & policy: from collision to interaction

Policy cycle: from theory to practice

Monitoring and Evaluation

Agenda Setting

Decision Making

Policy Implementation

Policy Formulation

Cabinet

Member States

Civil society

Business community

Achieving impact

on policies requires

increasingly influencing public

as well

The European Commission’s science and

knowledge service - Joint Research Centre

48%

21%

17%

11%

3%

Implementation, monitoring &

evaluation of EU policy

Anticipation, conception, and adoption of EU

policy

Support to specific

countries/ regions and international

bodies

Standardisation and

harmonisation

Ad-hoc support

438

JRC policy support impacts validated

JRC productivity and impact 2016

Our job for today

Morning session: What is impact on policy?

Heads of state and government at the European Summit in Malta, 2017

How can we measure impact on policy?

europa.eu/!jj73DJ

•EU Science Hub: ec.europa.eu/jrc

•Community of Practice: europa.eu/!jj73DJ

•Twitter: @EU_ScienceHub

•Facebook: EU Science Hub - Joint Research Centre

•LinkedIn: Joint Research Centre

•YouTube: EU Science Hub

Stay in touch