Work Package 5

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Work Package 5 Plan and develop collaborative
work areas
Working Group 1 Call topic development Simon
Gardner SKEP project manager
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Priorities for the selection of a joint call
topic area
- our task today is to select 1-2 broad topic
areas for the pilot joint call - we need topic
areas which are a good fit with the framework of
the SKEP pilot joint call - call duration -
funds made available - aims and objectives of
the ERA-NET
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Topic proposals received thus far for the SKEP
pilot joint call
1. Sustainable consumption and production in
anticipation of the new green paper expected from
the Commission in 2007 2. The use of
ecological footprints for EU decision-makers. How
will they be used? 3. The generation of
biofuels and their impact on the environment use
of set-aside land biodiversity effects 4.
Transboundary transport of hazardous chemicals at
an EU-scale 5. Transboundary transport of
alien species at an EU-scale 6. Environmental
policies and innovation effects 7.
Environmental economics and ethics 8. Better
regulation risk-based approaches effectiveness
simplification and streamlining cost-savings
transaction costs reducing costs associated with
old legislation 9. Research management (as a
research topic in its own right)
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Ex-Post/Ex-Ante Policy Effectiveness
Evaluation (EAPEE/EPPEE) studies - a suitable
way forward for a SKEP pilot joint call?
?

• Advantages
• a discrete desk-top exercise that could be
  fitted into the 12 month pilot call duration
• well formulated associated Deliverables
• an excellent way of linking science and policy in
  a way that is attractive to stakeholders within
  EU institutions, Environment Ministries and EPAs
• a formula that would ensure a high level of
  buy-in at the Member State level for study work
  (something which has not always been easy to
  achieve in past studies)

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We have a ready-made community of EAPEE/EPPEE
practitioners when inviting proposals to be
submitted for work...
?
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Ex-Post/Ex-Ante Policy Effectiveness
Evaluation (EAPEE/EPPEE) studies - a suitable
way forward for a SKEP pilot joint call?
x

• Disadvantages
• selection of a topic which has been highlighted
  for study by either an EU institution or academic
  practitioners
• selection of a topic area which is too overtly
  political

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Draft SKEP pilot call process diagram
EAPEE/EPPEE studies within a science-policy
framework
Environmental topic area
Target audience
1. Sustainable consumption and production in
anticipation of the new green paper expected from
the Commission in 2007 2. The use of
ecological footprints for EU decision-makers. How
will they be used? 3. The generation of
biofuels and their impact on the environment use
of set-aside land biodiversity effects 4.
Transboundary transport of hazardous chemicals at
an EU-scale 5. Transboundary transport of
alien species at an EU-scale 6. Environmental
policies and innovation effects 7.
Environmental economics and ethics 8. Better
regulation risk-based approaches effectiveness
simplification and streamlining cost-savings
transaction costs reducing costs associated with
old legislation 9. Research management (as a
research topic in its own right)
- the quality of interaction between scientists
and policy-makers - enhancing the framing of
questions - the overall system for science
support to policy and regulation - synthesis and
communication of science - transparency into the
science-into-policy process - roles and
mechanisms for the definition of research
programmes
- SKEP network - European Environment Agency -
DG-ENV - DG-RTD - JRC - The European Policy
Centre - Science meets Policy - Bridging the
Gap - European Union Research Advisory Board
(EURAB) - The European Network on Scientific
Input to Public Policy (ENSIPP) - Policy
research and innovation (PRIME) - Government
Environment Ministries - EPAs - Research Councils
I. Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) II.
Counterfactuals and experimental methods III.
Econometric models IV. Multi-criteria decision
analysis (MCA) V. In-depth case-studies - EEA
pilot studies
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Suggested Draft Guiding principles
1. That the work should be self-contained and
bottomed-out given the limited timescales we are
dealing with 2. That it should consist of a
desk-top review of effectiveness (ie, comprise a
form of evaluation study) 3. This review should
employ science-policy criteria to draw
conclusions 4. That this review should
concentrate upon relatively recent/topical themes
5. That the study should target policy-makers
and regulators as its end-users/customers.