Innovating Public Policy

National Green Day

We were runners up in the Youth Category of the Heywood Prize this year and we want to try to make our idea a reality. This is why we have launched a petition for a National Green Day on change.org: Petition · Launch a National Green Day · Change.org. Our idea is simple – a…

ChatGPT experiment

ChatGPT has drawn a lot of media attention on the topic of AI. How will such tools influence the way we research, discuss and think in the future? We also ask ourselves these questions and try to approach this topic – not only theoretically, but also with an experiment. For this reason we will be…

Using AI to identify great ideas

The 2021 Heywood Prize has exceeded our expectation as close to 2000 people contributed their ideas to the contest. But this success also put a great burden on the many volunteers that helped us review and score these entries. In the 2022 Heywood Prize we are therefore embarking on a new journey that will make…

Update: 2022 competition news

A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of observing a meeting of the NHS Volunteers Taskforce which, in addition to looking at volunteering across the entirety of the NHS, has been looking at the winning idea from the 2021 Heywood Prize competition about building a territorial type army of volunteers for the NHS.…

Citizens’ assemblies

I was delighted to take part in a follow up discussion hosted by the Blavatnik School on one of our prize winning ideas – citizens assemblies. The notes of that discussion, which is one of several conversations that we have been supporting as a Foundation both within and outside of government, is attached here. Suzanne…