only a month ago, hardly anyone would have predicted how profoundly the coronavirus would change life globally.
The corona pandemic has also brought about changes here at the institute. Since 12 March, all employees have been working from the home office. Nevertheless, almost all projects are continuing as planned, albeit with some adjustments to methods or schedules. The important message for you, however, is that we can still be reached at the familiar telephone numbers and e-mail addresses!
In our following ConPolicy news you will find information on how we are dealing with the pandemic and present the results of a ConPolicy-internal hackathon on the corona pandemic. The results of this hackathon are a consumer-political corona pandemic topic radar, a discussion paper on social distancing inspired by behavioral science including a video summarizing the contents, and a checklist showing how to successfully conduct virtual workshops. If you have any feedback, please get in touch!
Last but not least, we are very pleased that Dr. Otmar Lell joined the ConPolicy team in April as an expert for consumer policy and consumer law. Before joining ConPolicy, he worked at the Federation of German Consumer Organizations (Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband e.V.) in Berlin for many years, most recently as head of the legal and trade team.
We hope that you all stay healthy! Yours Christian Thorun
In April Dr. Otmar Lell joined the ConPolicy team. Otmar is an expert in the fields of consumer policy and consumer law. His focus includes regulatory approaches in consumer policy, digitalization, issues of consumer law enforcement as well as consumer interests and sustainable development. Before joining ConPolicy Otmar was team leader legal affairs and trade at the Federation of German Consumer Organisations (vzbv). Otmar has been working for vzbv from 2002 on a broad range of issues including sustainability, mobility, infrastructure and consumer law. Prior to his engagement in the consumer movement Otmar was active at the Federal Environment Agency and at the Federal Ministry of Environment. He has been in contact with ConPolicy for a long time through regular exchange.
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New ConPolicy-report on geographical indications on products
On behalf of the European Commission ConPolicy, VVA and Ecorys investigated the value of geographical indications on products. The aim of the study was to develop a better understanding of the value of the economics aspects of protection of geographically rooted non-agricultural products in the EU. Within the project ConPolicy was responsible for the evaluation of consumer preferences and conducted a behavioral experiment and a survey.
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