Brussels, 30 April 2025
Policy Lab partners with the AMIGDALA project to support Europe’s transition to sustainable and resilient industries
Transitioning industries towards the European Green Deal’s net-zero goal by 2050 presents a multi-faceted challenge. European industry must become climate neutral while remaining globally competitive and resilient. Effective transition requires decision-makers to foresee the complex interactions between demand, global trade, and industrial production.
The EU-funded AMIGDALA project, a European consortium led by the Netherlands’ research centre TNO, addresses this challenge by developing scenarios and projections that support policymakers and industries. An integrated modelling tool covering the period from 1990 to 2070 will link demand and trade, industrial production, primary energy generation, material flows, and climate effects. It will also examine local decision-making, analysing choices made by industry clusters and utility providers.
“Policy Lab contributes comprehensive predictive modelling of international trade. This helps refine integrated models that reveal the relationships between trade, industrial production, energy use, and resource flows, offering crucial insights into industrial transformation,” says Marek Tiits, Partner at Policy Lab.
The AMIGDALA consortium includes TNO, BFI, KU Leuven, DECHEMA, Deloitte, ENEA, European Research Services, GreenDecision, IIASA, SITECH, Sustainable Innovations, and VITO.
Brussels, 16 April 2025
Policy Lab joins the NARRATE project to enhance resilience and sustainability in European manufacturing
Manufacturers and logistics companies frequently face unforeseen disruptions, leading to production delays, increased costs, and challenges in meeting customer demand. Building resilience across entire value chains is essential to mitigating these risks. To address this, the European Commission has contracted a consortium led by AIDIMME to strengthen resilience and sustainability in manufacturing and industrial production across Europe.
The NARRATE project aims to meet this challenge by developing the Intelligent Manufacturing Custodian (IMC). The IMC will provide comprehensive visibility and control over supply chain operations, enabling early detection and prediction of disruptions to enhance overall supply chain resilience.
“Policy Lab contributes export market analytics, detection of critical import dependencies, and an early warning system based on global news analysis. Our objective is to highlight vulnerabilities and anticipate potential supply chain disruptions, thereby supporting proactive decision-making within the Intelligent Manufacturing Custodian framework,” says Tarmo Kalvet, Partner at Policy Lab.
The initiative involves collaboration with leading research and industrial partners, including AIDIMME, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Scientific Academy for Service Technology EV, Software AG, DHL, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, INSAVALOR SA, F6S Network Ireland Limited, SYNESIS-Societa Consortile a Responsabilita Limitata, Mediterranean Wood Factory S.L., Nunsys SA, Budatec GmbH, and Brunel University London.
Berlin, 12 December 2024
Policy Lab contributes to the policy review of the Foreign Trade Strategy of the State of Berlin
The Federal State of Berlin, through the Berlin Senate Department for Economic Affairs, Energy and Public Enterprises, has invited Policy Lab to assist in a policy review of its Foreign Trade Strategy. The review will consider methods for selecting areas for international cooperation, and approaches for identifying target countries.
The review will also consider resilience, sustainability, and other factors that guide trade policies and country selection. “Policy Lab will share its experience in identifying export opportunities in different time frames, as well as strategies to reduce import dependences that involve states with geopolitical tensions,” says Marek Tiits, a partner at Policy Lab. The purpose is to gather insights to support adjustments to the Foreign Trade Strategy.
Policy Lab will work with experts from ACCIÓ in Catalonia, the Ministry of Economy and Innovation in Hamburg, Flanders Investment and Trade, and London & Partners.
Tallinn, 7 November 2022
Policy Lab contributes to the development of the AI-on-demand platform for Europe
The European Commission has contracted a consortium led by Fraunhofer Gesellschaft to prepare the development of the AI-on-demand platform for Europe. We’ll carry out a comprehensive requirement analysis for different stakeholder groups, industrial sectors, and public administration. These requirements analyses will lead to an overall roadmap and plan to build and consolidate the AI-on-demand platform. This includes a comprehensive concept to provide trustworthy AI assets into the platform to support European leadership on trustworthy AI.
Eventually, the AI-on-demand platform will support the wide uptake of trustworthy AI “made in Europe”. It will serve the needs of both public administrations as well as the major industrial sectors in Europe in the large-scale deployment of trustworthy artificial intelligence.
The team that we collaborate with on this assignment involves several prominent research and industrial partners, such as Aalto University, University College Cork, Telenor, Siemens, SAP and EIT Digital.
Tallinn, 3 September 2020
Policy Lab and EY launch an Estonian export competitiveness initiative
The Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Enterprise Estonia have contracted Policy Lab and EY to advise on export development prospects for Estonia.
Small catching up countries are very dependent on trade. Yet, the recent months have shown that previously unforeseen trade barriers can emerge very rapidly. Globally, the #covid19 pandemic has disrupted 75% of supply chains; and we are likely to continue to experience a highly turbulent international business environment. In this context, the success of businesses is defined by agility in detection and entry into new growth markets, and in rethinking business models.
Policy Lab’s advanced data analytics tools prove especially useful in the current business environment. Our analytical toolbox allows for timely market intelligence on the on-going restructuring of global value chains and new export opportunities this brings about.
UPDATE! The full report of Estonian export study 2021, with an executive summary in English on pp 9-13, has been made public.
Tallinn, 1 July 2019
Policy Lab initiates the development of the Industrial Competitiveness Atlas
Specialisation and trade fuel productivity growth and capitalist economic development. Detailed and regularly updated international trade data is a rich source to detect new rapidly growing new markets and overall dynamism in global markets. The Industrial Competitiveness Atlas integrates the latest achievements in economic research and machine learning in order to generate meaninful insights for development of industrial strategies. With better understanding of global market developments and respective alignment of business strategies, the resources are focussed to development of products and services that can be provided with highest value added, thus increasing value creation and sustainable growth in private sector.
We are grateful to the Norway Grants Green ICT Programme (small grant EU53315) for the support.
