Posted in News on Mar 28, 2025.
UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Coalition is delighted to have been cited as an “inspirational practice” in the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union Conference Brief.
BRIDGES features in the section ‘Evidence-Informed Policymaking (EIPM) ecosystems as collaborative environments.’ This citation follows the participation of Nsah Mala, BRIDGES Hub for Planetary Wellbeing, University of Cologne, in the BELSPO conference last year.
From the brief’s Executive Summary: “This conference brief is the result of interactive discussions between policymakers, scientists and knowledge brokers on ways of Enhancing Evidence-Informed Policymaking (EIPM) ecosystems through better integration of social sciences, arts and humanities (SSAH) expertise in multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary approaches.
These discussions were organised in the frame of the conference under Belgian Presidency entitled #StrongerTogether: social sciences, arts and humanities (SSAH) and the future of evidence-informed policymaking (#StrongerTogether-STEP2024)”
An excerpt from the brief: Opportunities for co-creation: Regular transdisciplinary matchmaking events and online platforms where policymakers and researchers from various disciplines can collaborate with confidence and trust, in a non-judgemental but structured manner, are established. These facilitate the formulation of relevant policy questions and the search for common grounds between policy formulation and research evidence, grounded in the current state of the art of the available knowledge, with due attention to the research gaps that call for future studies.
Access the BELGIAN PRESIDENCY OF THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION CONFERENCE BRIEF here.
UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Coalition extends appreciation to the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the recognition and support of the work of BRIDGES.
