What is the Hertie School Policy Lab?
The Policy Lab is a solution space for policy challenges, designed for learning, collaboration, and experimentation, where science meets practice.
True to our commitment to provide practice-oriented teaching, the Lab brings real-world policy challenges into the classroom and gives students the chance to work on projects that resemble the ones they will encounter at their jobs upon graduation.
The Lab is also a hub of policy innovation, bringing to the public debate arena the results of the projects on which students work for an entire semester under the guidance of faculty and practitioners.
Here are the activities taking place in the Lab in the first phase of the project (more to come soon!):
Project Courses will give students the opportunity to understand the practical relevance of academic concepts and policy analysis tools. By the end of the course they will have the competence to transfer and apply theoretical concepts and methodological tools to a public policy project and will have developed skills such as project management, conflict management, presentation skills, team building and leadership.
An example of a Project Course offered Spring 2024 will be Modern government design: Preparing for the future of government, developed with our practice partner PD – Berater der öffentlichen Hand GmbH, Germany´s largest in-house consultancy. The course will challenge students to develop innovative and durable ideas for modern government design that can inform consultancy work.
Project Courses are part of the Master of Public Policy (MPP) curriculum.
Join us at the Festival of Ideas, the launch event of the Hertie School Policy Lab, a solution space for policy challenges that brings together students, researchers, and practice partners!
Taking place on June 6 at 17:00 in the Henrik Enderlein Forum at the Hertie School, the Festival of Ideas is a platform to showcase and celebrate the policy ideas developed by Hertie School students in practice-oriented courses. In its first edition, the Festival of Ideas will feature the results of the Master of Public Policy (MPP) project courses, presented as posters. Practice partners, together with faculty members, will select and honour the best posters.
The event will provide ample networking and exchange opportunities for students, faculty and researchers, current and prospective practice partners, and other members of the Hertie School community. Light food and drinks will be offered.
We look forward to seeing you there!
To register, click here.
