Thu 25 Jun
|T'bilisi
GIPA International Behavioural Public Policy Workshop (IBPPW)
Time & Location
25 Jun 2026, 08:00 – 26 Jun 2026, 18:00
T'bilisi, 18/22, Rustavi Hwy, T'bilisi 0114, Georgia
About the event
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
The International Behavioural Public Policy Association and the School of Governance at GIPA Georgian Institute of Public Affairs invite scholars and practitioners to take part in the First International Behavioural Public Policy Workshop (IBPPW) in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The workshop will be held in Tbilisi, Georgia, on June 25-26, 2026.
By bringing together academic scholars, policymakers, and practitioners from diverse disciplines across the CEE region, IBPPW aims to foster the exchange of ideas and insights on how behavioural science can inform, shape and improve public policy. The workshop represents an important initiative to consolidate and strengthen the emerging behavioural public policy community in the region, providing a platform for collaboration, methodological reflection, and discussion of context-specific challenges and opportunities.
This inaugural edition aims to provide a space for the critical reassessment of the foundations, challenges, and future directions of behavioural public policy as applied in the region. Central themes include examining how established behavioural mechanisms manifest, operate, and are moderated by institutional and cultural contexts in the CEE region, the design and testing of behavioural interventions, and the exploration of where behavioural science approaches can have a meaningful impact on public policymaking in CEE.
We invite scholars from all relevant disciplines and policy practitioners to present theoretical, empirical, or interdisciplinary work, including work-in-progress papers intended for future publication. As the host of the first BPP workshop in CEE, we particularly seek papers with an emphasis on the region and strongly encourage region-specific perspectives, especially those related to institutional capacity, policy implementation, and behavioural governance. Authors of selected presentations may be invited to contribute their work to a report demonstrating the policy impacts of behavioural public policy interventions in CEE.
View the full call for abstracts, submission guidelines and registration fees here: