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Robert Bosch Stiftung and Stiftung Mercator launched Research and Advice in Foreign and Security Policy: An analysis of the German Think Tank Space, authored by Christoph...
The Open Think Tank Directory was born to overcome the lack of centralised and publicly available information about think tanks and other policy research organisations. But it serves other...
The first think tank state of the sector report, based on analysis of 2019 data of 2,802 active think tanks from the Open Think Tank Directory, provides an overview of the sector and uncovers...
Presenters: Silvia Menegazzi, PhD (Adjunct Professor International Relations, LUISS Guido Carli University), Dr. Bert Fraussen and Dr. Valérie Pattyn (Faculty of...
Credibility is crucial for a think tank. To be able to effectively inform policy and practice they need to be and be seen as credible sources of information and advice. In the current...
The OTT Conference 2020: the online events were a response to the need to postpone our 2020 conference in Berlin. In June we hosted the second online event and were joined...
Antes de la pandemia que el COVID-19 desató, los expertos no eran bien vistos (al menos en el norte global), y eran percibidos como lejanos y encerrados en sus torres...
Abstract Collaborations between think tanks and social movements appear to be a positive partnership, as think tanks get to understand and engage with the lived...
Before COVID-19, experts were loathed (at least in the global North), perceived to be in their ivory towers detached from the public. While experts may have remerged as...
Project brief OTT will develop and deliver a training programme for the Y20 delegates at this year's G20 summit in Saudi Arabia. The project involves: Designing a...
Project brief Delivery of an extensive directory of think tanks that focus on the topics conflict, climate change, migration and inequality. Dates December 2019 to...
Project brief This mapping of research organisations and related organisations for UNICEF. The project builds on our Open Think Tank Directory but focuses on organisations that work in...