the ConPolicy Institute for Consumer Policy was founded ten years ago. After ten years it is time to say thank you.
Thank you to all the people who have supported the foundation with encouragement and ideas. Thank you to all the people, institutions and companies who have approached us with their research and consulting questions and trust in our work. Thank you to the team who makes the institute a place of professionalism and creativity.
Topics such as digitization, sustainable consumption and corporate responsibility will not let us rest in the coming decade.
We look forward to continuing our cooperation with you!
Project for the DIN Consumer Council
ConPolicy completes study on consumer requirements for "smart" toys in standardization
On behalf of the Consumer Council of the German Institute for Standardization (DIN), ConPolicy examined which requirements should be placed on so-called "smart" toys from the consumer's point of view, how these requirements are taken into account in standards or should be taken into account in the future, and which concrete steps are necessary to achieve this. To this end, expert interviews and workshops were conducted in addition to a literature search.
The project has now been completed and a results report on the study can be requested from the DIN Consumer Council.
Behavioral Insights for Public Policy
ConPolicy-Presentation at Heidelberg University
On February 19th and 20th, academic researchers discussed results from their behavioral research at the workshop “Experimental Economics for the Environment”. The workshop was organized by the Research Center for Environmental Economics at Heidelberg University.
ConPolicy-project manager Dr. Sara Elisa Kettner gave a presentation on “Behavioral Insights for Public Policy – A Practitioner’s View”. In this light she presented ConPolicy-projects in which behavioral research was used to inform and shape policy making.
Study published and presented
ConPolicy presents consumer study 2019 at the Working Group Economic Consumer Protection of the German Federal States
Consumers need access to high-quality, supplier-independent information and advice in order to make informed consumption decisions. Against the background of the steadily increasing importance of Internet-based information offerings, however, the question arises as to how consumers search the Internet for consumer information and advice, which offerings they use and how satisfied they are with them.
On behalf of the Bavarian State Ministry for the Environment and Consumer Protection (StMUV) and the Ministry for the Environment, Agriculture, Nature and Consumer Protection of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (MULNV), the ConPolicy Institute prepared the Consumer Study 2019 last year. ConPolicy Managing Director, Prof. Dr. Christian Thorun, presented the central results of the study at a meeting of the Working Group on Economic Consumer Protection of the Federal States on 12 February 2020.
Furthermore, the study has been published in the meantime. The report is available here.
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