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Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
Over the last decade, governments in the UK, USA, Australia and around dozen other countries – now including Germany - have created units dedicated to the application of behavioural science and experimental methods. The UK’s Behavioural Insights team (BIT), or ‘Nudge Unit’, set up in 2010 by the incoming Cameron Government is perhaps the best known. BIT has conducted several hundred trials and advised wide ranging policy issues from encouraging the prompt payment of taxes; increasing personal saving; encouraging healthier lifestyles; boosting growth; and increasing social mobility – examples of which will be shown. BIT has brought its wake a much wider appetite for empirical, literally experimental, approaches to improve the quality of policy and practice. This empiricism is embodied in the ‘What Works’ centres and movement: generating and collating evidence, and putting it directly into the hands of public sector professionals and commissioners in education, healthcare, the police, and so on, and into the hands of citizens too. In education alone, more than 100 large scale Randomised Control trials have been conducted in the UK in the last five years, involving more than 500,000 children and several thousand schools. Together it amounts to radical and important shift in government policymaking and professional practice in the public sector. A key next step is to enhance international collaboration around the What Works movement, and to create a body of knowledge and practice that is available as a public good across countries.
Before the event starts, we invite you to join a Poster Exhibition by our Exevcutive Master of Public Administration (EMPA) in the cafeteria with speeches by Hertie School president Helmut K. Anheier, Hertie School professor Henrik Enderlein and more.
4.30 p.m. EMPA Poster Exhibition and Award Ceremony
5.30 pm. Opening Lecture of the Academic Year 2016/17
Welcome & Moderation: Helmut K. Anheier, President, Hertie School of Governance
Lecture: David Halpern, Chief Executive of the Behavioural Insights Team
Q&A
Information on participating / attending:
Date:
09/08/2016 17:30 - 09/08/2016 19:00
Event venue:
Hertie School of Governance, Friedrichstraße 180
10117 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
all interested persons
Email address:
Relevance:
regional
Subject areas:
Politics
Types of events:
Seminar / workshop / discussion
Entry:
08/10/2016
Sender/author:
Miriam Leich
Department:
Pressestelle
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event55048
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