Responsible policy advice in times of permanent crisis – what role for the PRO-RES framework?

21 September 2021 - Final PRO-RES Conference

Speakers: Prof Nicole Grobert, Chair of the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors to the European Commission; Dr Ron Iphofen, Independent Research Consultant; Dr Emmanuel Detsis, Science Officer, European Science Foundation; Yves Dumont, Policy Officer (DG RTD), European Commission; Dr Su-Ming Khoo, Senior Lecturer, National University of Ireland, Galway; Dr Sabina Alam, Director of Publishing Ethics & Integrity, Taylor & Francis Group; David Mair, Head of Unit Knowledge for Policy, Joint Research Centre, European Commission; Roger Casale, Executive Director, New Europeans; Dr Gabi Lombardo, Director, European Alliance of Social Sciences; Dr Fabian Zuleeg, Chief Executive, European Policy Centre

Moderator: Jacki Davis, Meade Davis Communications

This conference marked the end of the PRO-RES project, a Horizon 2020 project with the aim of encouraging policymakers and advisers to seek evidence for their decisions from research that has been conducted ethically, responsibly, and with integrity. The conference presented the main project outcome, an ethical guidance framework for researchers, policy advisers and policymakers and discuss them in the broader context of the current crisis. In doing so, it touched upon the challenges of advising policymaking during COVID-19 and the road ahead for evidence-based policymaking and advice in times of permanent crisis.