Evidence-based policy making : from data to decision-making

Abstract

The Executive Training Seminar (ETS) on ‘Evidence-Based Policy-Making: From Data to Decision-Making’ (07-09 June 2018) was jointly organised by GlobalStat, the Global Governance Programme (GGP) of the Robert Schuman Centre and the EUI’s School of Transnational Governance (STG) . The ETS brought together public officials and academics to discuss the development of innovative modes of providing evidence to policy-makers, including a critical assessment of the limitations of empirical and data-based evidence in defining new policies. Through presentations, case studies, and ‘hands on’ work, the seminar offered 31 participants from 23 different states an advanced understanding of the main issues and trends in contemporary evidence-based policy-making.