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It explored policy needs, leverage points for change, food policy recommendations and ideas for more participatory food governance in Europe. \n",{"type":30,"index":31,"variation":13,"imageURL":32,"title":33,"description":35},"image_and_text",2,"https://planeateu.retool.com/api/file/1f217634-5419-4eb3-9b4b-a2b82652b3a5",{"en_GB":34},"A Lab, but for Policy?",{"en_GB":36},"- A Living Lab is not a single workshop. It is a space where people co-create, test and improve solutions in real-life—or close-to-real-life— settings.\n- Our Policy Lab did just that, but with policy. It brought people together to explore policy challenges, test ideas and develop solutions that can work in practice.\n- Depending on the stage of the project, we used focus groups, interviews and co-creation workshops.\n- Rather than being a one-off consultation, the Policy Lab created a space for ideas to be revisited, challenged and refined over time.",{"type":30,"index":38,"variation":39,"imageURL":40,"title":41,"description":43},3,"image_right","https://planeateu.retool.com/api/file/b867f1db-5211-4e52-9785-ab6f9411e997",{"en_GB":42},"Right People, Right Table",{"en_GB":44},"To bring the right people around the table, we **started from the Policy Lab’s role** in the project: supporting EU-level policy dialogue and feeding into policy design.\n- **The community was built step by step** and resulted in a balanced core of civil society organisations and EU-level policymakers, complemented by health, food industry and research actors.\n- Mapping participants is not just about making a contact list. It is about understanding **what each person can bring and what’s in it for them**.\n**Keep the group open**. A Lab works best when it can grow with the project and the policy context.",{"type":30,"index":46,"variation":13,"imageURL":47,"title":48,"description":50},4,"https://planeateu.retool.com/api/file/8f084146-92b0-4969-be34-e715879daea4",{"en_GB":49},"Choosing the Right Ground",{"en_GB":51},"EPHA works **across policy areas** that shape health, including agri-food policy and the social, economic, environmental, political and commercial determinants of health. \n- The Policy Lab could build on an existing network of EU food policy actors, while bringing in new people and perspectives according to the needs of the project.\n- Because EPHA was already **part of the EU food policy community**, the Lab was connected from the outset to the people, debates and policy processes it wanted to influence.\n- This created the **routes into policy practice**: project knowledge could feed into ongoing conversations, relationships and advocacy even after the project ended.",{"type":30,"index":53,"variation":39,"imageURL":54,"title":55,"description":57},5,"https://planeateu.retool.com/api/file/d3a69098-5eb5-4172-9cef-d9162d5651d2",{"en_GB":56},"What Came Out",{"en_GB":58},"The Policy Lab contributed to several important parts of PLAN’EAT’s macro-level work:\n- It helped **connect local realities with EU-level policy design** in a coherent food policy mix presented in the [EU Food Systems Dashboard](https://planeatcenter.com/discover/european_food_system_dashboard). \n- Served as a main space for **gathering knowledge and testing ideas** for the [Roadmap for a European Food Policy Council](https://planeatcenter.com/discover/food_systems/6859729d5f229d4cdb2a29bc), co-developed by EPHA and TMG.\n- This approach culminated in the **final conference**, where some of food systems research’s strongest propositions were brought into **direct dialogue with food policy practitioners**—and tested against political reality.\nTo learn more about the **role of civil society**, see [EPHA website](https://epha.org/campaigns/planeat).",{"type":30,"index":60,"variation":13,"imageURL":61,"title":62,"description":64},6,"https://planeateu.retool.com/api/file/23e2744e-a493-4a5c-bec0-55fd97b96fca",{"en_GB":63},"Tips from our Lab",{"en_GB":65},"- **Start with a clear purpose**: know what kind of policy input, recommendations or governance ideas the Lab should help generate.\n- **Map people by what they can bring**: not only by organisation, but by knowledge, networks, legitimacy or links to others.\n- **Make participation worthwhile**: show why the Lab matters for each group’s work and priorities.\n- **Use personal connections**, where possible: they often work better than cold outreach.\n- **Keep it organic**: let it grow as the project and policy context evolves.\n- **Stay in touch**: share results and next steps so people see how their input was used.",{"type":67,"index":68,"variation":69,"title":70,"button1":72,"button2":76,"button3":78,"button4":80},"button_group",7,"title_top",{"en_GB":71},"Read more",{"URL":73,"label":74},"https://planeateu.retool.com/api/file/ac8b19c2-f234-42b4-8fe9-1b6f4c9d8300",{"en_GB":75},"Report on Policy Lab Creation",{"URL":21,"label":77},{"en_GB":21},{"URL":21,"label":79},{"en_GB":21},{"URL":21,"label":81},{"en_GB":21},{"type":83,"index":84,"variation":69,"title":85,"contact1":87,"contact2":93,"contact3":96},"contacts",8,{"en_GB":86},"Contacts",{"imageURL":88,"name":89,"description":91},"https://planeateu.retool.com/api/file/070c31d2-1352-4c17-9374-f11c3a05860d",{"en_GB":90},"Polina Sokolkina",{"en_GB":92},"Projects Officer - polina.sokolkina@epha.org",{"imageURL":21,"name":94,"description":95},{"en_GB":21},{"en_GB":21},{"imageURL":21,"name":97,"description":98},{"en_GB":21},{"en_GB":21},[6,100,101,102,103,104,105,106,107,108,109,110,111,112,113,114,115,116,117,118],"EU food policy","food systems governance","participatory governance","co-creation","stakeholder engagement","stakeholder mapping","policy design","food systems transformation","leverage points","European Food Policy Council","food democracy","multi-level governance","policy dialogue","governance architecture","Food Policy Summit","Brussels Policy Lab","Living Lab","food policy recommendations","EPHA policy lab",1789577658004]