The Policy Design Sprint
The APROPOS Policy Design Sprint is a collaboration technology for policymaking deployed to assist policymakers in co-designing and testing a policy prototype in just under seven weeks.
The APROPOS Policy Design Sprint is a collaboration technology which is uniquely tailored to the needs of policymakers seeking to break new ground on a policy challenge in very little time. It combines elements of dialogue facilitation, human-centered design thinking and the result-focused approach of the Agile methodology of the Sprint.
It was ideated to provide an informal and creative arena for policy ideation and a guided collaboration space to experiment with the quick prototyping of policy solutions to political challenges.
The Policy Design Sprint is designed to function as a policy ideation space for policymakers at all levels of governance, from the local to the international level. It offers a space to work on ideation and testing of political solutions which can be co-designed across parties and, if so desired, across borders.
In a nutshell:
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7 weeks;
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5 online meetings;
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Up to 10 policymakers - across parties, levels of governance and across borders;
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A dedicated facilitation team and a dedicated communications team;
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1 sprint question - collaboratively defined to address the specific needs of the group;
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1 policy prototype.
>> The Policy Design Sprint is also available as an offline format, over the duration of a week.
How Can Parliaments Better Oversee Executive Action in Times of Crisis?
2021
In this inaugural edition of the Policy Design Sprint, as a reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic, six parliamentarians from Luxembourg, Austria, Denmark, Slovenia, Belgium and Latvia collaborated on the design of the 'P2 - Preparation for Participation Toolkit', as a potential solution for parliaments to enhance their oversight of government action in times of emergency.
AI, Technology & The Future of Work: How Can We Future-Proof Europe's Workforce?
2024
The second Policy Design Sprint engaged eight parliamentarians across parties and countries to develop an approach to help future-proof the European workforce in the light of drastic technological disruption, fueled by phenomena such as Generative AI. As a result, the sprinters developed the 'AI FutureForce – An EU-wide Regulatory Sandbox Initiative' prototype to address the question of how to reconcile innovation and regulatory needs.
Join Our Next Policy Design Sprint!
TBD
Partner up with the APROPOS team to design the next edition of the Policy Design Sprint and get a group of policymakers and policythinkers from problem exploration to policy prototype in just under 40 hours. Interested? Get in touch.
"The Policy Design Sprint was really an innovative experience for me. It's not the usual approach, it helped us face the problem in a different way."
Parliamentary Assistant, Policy Design Sprint 2024