This report was prepared jointly by the OECD Directorate for Public Governance and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, under the respective leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, Director for Public Governance at the OECD, and Jolita Butkeviciene, Director for Innovation in Science and policy making at the JRC. The work was undertaken by teams working respectively in the unit of David Mair, Science for Democracy and Evidence Informed Policy Making at the JRC and Jón R. Blöndal, Head of the Public Management and Budgeting Division at the OECD.
The report was jointly drafted by experts of the two institutions:
Mara Almeida, Policy Analyst, Anastasia Deligkiaouri, Policy Analyst, Anne-Greet Keizer, Policy Analyst, Elias Kock, Policy Analyst, Alexandra Olajos-Szabo Policy Analyst, Mario Scharfbillig, Policy Analyst, Paul Smits, Policy Analyst, Filippa Vala Policy Analyst at the JRC.
Stéphane Jacobzone, Senior Advisor, Laurence Dynes, Junior Policy Analyst, at the OECD.
The report benefited from comments and feedback from Agniezska Gadzina Kolodziejska, Deputy Head of Unit, and from Andrew Blazey, Deputy Head of Division as well as from Arnault Pretet, Becky King, Simon Callewaert, Conor Das Doyle, Emma Philips, Sarah Kups at the OECD. It also benefitted from many comments and encouragements from Athina Manta at SG Reform. Substantive comments were also received from David Budtz Pedersen, professor at Aalborg University, Denmark, and Jaako Kuosmanen Secretary of the Academy of Science and Letters in Finland. The authors wish to acknowledge the contribution to the conceptual framework and inception for the project of Kristian Krieger, Lorenzo Melchor, at the JRC and Claire Salama at the OECD.
This synthesis report draws on the findings of all the national country reports. For the national country reports, the following contributions are acknowledged:
Petr Bouchal, Tomáš Čech, Ladislav Frühauf, Mirna Jusić, Jonáš Kreisinger, Alexandre Reznikow, Arnošt Veselý and Petr Witz, including editing from Lorenzo Melchor and Alexandra Olajos Szabo for the Czech Republic and input from Daniel Trnka OECD.
Andres Koppel, Peeter Selg, Tiina Randma-Liiv, Marju Raju and Benjamin Klasche in Estonia, including editing from Lorenzo Melchor and Elias Kock at the JRC and input from Piret Tonurist from the OECD.
Stella Ladi, Calliope Spanou, Angelos Angelou, Dimitra Panagiotatou, and Manolis Manioudis including editing from Kristian Krieger, Anastasia Deligkiaouri, with input from Vaia Karapanou, OECD, in Greece.
Vitalis Nakrošis, Ieva Petraitė, Rasa Bortkevičiūtė and Ramūnas Vilpišauskas including editing from Mara Almeida, with input from Stephane Jacobzone for Lithuania.
Lars Dorren, Mark Frequin, Louis Meuleman, Valérie Pattyn, and Martijn van der Steen including editing from Mario Scharfbillig and Paul Smits at the JRC with input from Stephane Jacobzone in the Netherlands.
Silvia Picalarga and Stephane Jacobzone for Latvia, with input from Richard Alcorn, Paula Patrīcija Avotiņa, Laurence Dynes and Claire Salama at the OECD, and Kristian Krieger, Lorenzo Melchor, from the JRC at the time of the project, as well as input from Alexandra Olajos-Szabo and Mara Silva Almeida at the JRC.
Laurence Dynes and Stephane Jacobzone for Belgium, with input from Richard Alcorn, Claire Salama and Silvia Picalarga at the OECD as well as input from Kristian Krieger at the JRC.
The authors are grateful to all the beneficiary organisations for their cooperation throughout the project, including:
Latvia: Ministry of Education and Science, State Chancellery
Belgium: Federal Public Service Policy and Support (BOSA), BELSPO, STATBEL, Federal planning bureau, KUL-Instituut voor de overheid, UCL Louvain
Estonia: Estonian Research Council, Ministry of Education and Research, Government Office, Estonian Academy of Sciences
Lithuania: Government Strategic Analysis Centre (STRATA), Office of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, Research Council of Lithuania
Czech Republic: Office of the Government of the Czech Republic; Ministry of the Interior; Ministry for Regional Development; Ministry of Industry and Trade; Minister for Science, Research and Innovation Office; Research, Innovation and Development Council; Technology Agency of the Czech Republic
Greece: General Secretariat of Coordination of the Presidency of the Government of the Hellenic Republic, General Secretariat of Fiscal Policy of the Ministry of Finance, Council of Economic Experts (SOE), Center of Planning and Economic Research (KEPE), National Centre for Social Research (EKKE), National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”
The Netherlands: Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, the Chief Science Officers – Interdepartmental Network, Ministry of Education, Culture and Research, Ministry of Justice and Safety, and the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) as a co-ordinating organisation.
The teams are grateful to Andrea Uhrhammer and Meral Gedik at the OECD and Katarzyna Udala and Francesco Moratelli at the JRC for editorial, communication and administrative support.
This report is the final synthesis of a TSI project “building capacity for evidence-informed policymaking in governance and administration in a post-pandemic Europe” (22EL07). The action was funded by the European Union via the Technical Support Instrument and co-implemented by the OECD and the European Commission Joint Research Centre, in co-operation with the European Commission SG Reform.