The OCOPOMO project

OCOPOMO is developing and demonstrating a new approach to policy formation that resolves crucial issues involved with prevailing approaches. The issues and means of resolving them have been identified over recent years by scholars and practitioners.

This project provides an innovative "off the mainstream" bottom-up approach to social policy modelling, combined with e-governance tools and techniques, and advanced ICT technologies.

The OCOPOMO project created an ICT-based environment integrating lessons and practical techniques from complexity science, agent based social simulation, foresight scenario analysis and stakeholder participation. With the OCOPOMO approach it is possible to formulate and monitor social policies to be adopted at several levels of government.

Policy issues which are high on the European political agenda will serve as a testbed for the applied approach to policy modelling.

Consult our video to grasp at a glance what the project is about. A Glossary informs you about the particular understanding of terms used in OCOPOMO.

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OCOPOMO is a project co-funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme, Theme 7.3 (ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling).