The EU Policy Lab is a space for cross-disciplinary exploration and innovation in policymaking. We apply collaborative, systemic and forward-looking approaches to help bringing the scientific knowledge of the Joint Research Centre into EU policymaking.

We experiment with the new, the unprecedented and the unknown. We seek to augment our understanding of the present, challenge and reinvent the way we think about the future.

The EU Policy Lab is also a mindset and a way of working together that combines stories and data, anticipation and analysis, imagination and action. We bring new practical and radical perspectives to tackle complex problems in a collaborative way. Together, we explore, connect and ideate to create better policies.

The Competence Centre on Foresight is part of the EU Policy Lab and supports EU policy making by providing strategic and future-oriented input, developing an anticipatory culture inside the European Commission, and continuously experimenting and developing different methods and tools to make foresight useful for decision making processes. 

Wondering about the European Union's future role on the world stage? 🇪🇺 On behalf of the Federal Foreign Service of Germany, the DLR-PT conducted a Strategic Foresight Workshop including a Futures Literacy Lab on the topic 'The European Union as a global actor in 2040?'! Together with experts and Federal Foreign Office staff, the DLR-PT explored innovative ways of thinking about the futures. 

Booklet on the Strategic Foresight Workshop