SSE Policy Lab

Policy Lab is SSE’s House of Governance and Public Policy (GaPP)’s by-invitation-only roundtable dinner event where selectively invite experts from industry, academia and public decision making share their expertise and opinions, in a light and knowledgeable format by open ended discussions moderated by a faculty expert.

House of Governance and Public Policy

Policy labs 2023

January 11

Organized by House of Governance and Public Policy

Theme: Governance, Innovation and Sustainability in the Forestry Industry

How could research and innovation contribute to product and process innovations in the forest industry, and more broadly, what visions there are for a more economically, socially, and ecologically sustainable industry?

February 8

Organized by House of Governance and Public Policy

Theme: International Aid Policy - learnings from prior public sector reforms

Consequences in the Swedish government’s change in Sweden’s international aid policy were discussed. What could we learn from previous major reorganisations within government policy?

May 2

Organized by Center for Resilient Health

Theme: Funding and Organizing our Future Health

How can we as a society – in Sweden and internationally – finance health and care in a future that will feature an ageing society and new treatments?

June 25

Organized by KAB Center for Governance in cooperation with Center for Resilient Health

Theme: Innovative better Health.

How do we create mechanisms for health and resilient healthcare, and deal with health inequities? Can we move towards prevention and early detection, and better measure health, prevention and treatment outcomes? What roles do different actors have in the healthcare system, and how can collaborations, partnerships and individual needs/responsibilities be enhanced?

October 11

Organized by KAB Center for Governance in cooperation with Center for Municipal Governance

Theme: How could the governance of municipal companies be more efficient and future oriented?

Regionally and municipally owned companies in Sweden play an important socio-economic role. Criticism linked to issues related to transparency and control, factors which in turn are intimately linked to democracy and accountability, were discussed.

October 11

Organized by Center for Resilient Health

Theme: Securing Health Competence

What future competence needs and matching educations are needed for a resilient health system? How to attract and retain such competence? Can we make jobs in healthcare more attractive and ensure lifelong learning and careers? What will digitalization, automatization and decentralization mean for healthcare staff? What type of leadership is needed for transformative healthcare?

November 8

Organized by KAB Center for Governance

Theme: Collaboration in Space

In recent years, space has taken on heightened strategic importance. Concurrently, the previously clear division between civil and military research has blurred. As space innovation, characterized by its security implications and dual-use technologies, emerges as a focal point, it embodies the broader challenge: How should Sweden's private and public sectors structure themselves to nurture the collaboration between civil and military sectors for space while preserving security?

November 16

Organized by Center for Municipal Governance

Theme: Public Procurement in the driver seat – are there any (speed) limits

How do we create procurement processes that cater for economic, social and environmental sustainability? Public procurement has been criticized for putting a major emphasis on regulatory compliance and cost reduction to the detriment of public value and social welfare goals, is it time for a change?