DANDELION at Evidence and Policy Summer School (Slovakia)

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DANDELION’s partner Civitta Estonia is in the event Evidence and Policy Summer School in Senec, Slovakia (6-8 September 2017).  Learn the key outcomes.

Mr. Pawel Busiakiewicz, Head of Unit of Knowledge Hub for Migration and Security, gave good advice to researchers on how to advise policy makers:

- TIME CONSTRAINTS – policy makers need data and advice on pressing issues quickly

- BE REALISTIC – propose realistic goals that policy makers are able to transform into policy measures

- FOCUSED – there is often no time or need to check all angles of the problem

- KNOW THE PROBLEM – make sure you address the real problem that the policy makers have

- SIMPLICITY – keep it simple and clear

- SHORT TIME SOLUTIONS – propose also short time solutions, for 2-3 years 

Sir Peter Gluckman, Chairman of INGSA (International Network for Government Science Advice) and Chief Scientific Advisor to the Prime Minister of New Zealand, gave also a short lecture about using evidence in policy making. Accrording to Mr Gluckman:

- Policy making is rarely determined by evidence, but policy can be and should be informed by evidence.

- Policy makers see evidence as one of a number of inputs. How important is the role of science in the political desicion making is often determined by the work of a broker, e.g. a science advisor, science communicator, etc.