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New, cross-cutting competences are needed at all stages of the policy cycle to deliver effective, innovative and evidence informed policies (figure 3 ). Equally, a specific set of competences is needed by researchers working at the science-policy interface to achieve policy impact. Both policymakers (evidence users) and researchers (evidence providers) need these complementary competences to support evidence-informed policymaking ecosystems and to reinforce trust in both democracy and science. This two-pronged approach to competence development is therefore needed to build and sustain the bridge between policy and science. For the first time, these competences have been mapped and unpacked in detail across four levels of proficiency in the ‘Innovative Policymaking’ (targeting policymakers) and ‘Science for Policy’ (targeting researchers) competence frameworks. Setting out skills, knowledge and attitudes across four levels of proficiency for each competence, the frameworks provide a future oriented perspective for both professions and are a point of reference for mapping learning offers that can increase the capacities of policymakers or researchers. While the two competence frameworks differ in terms of profession and scope, they are in many ways complementary. This complementarity is reflecting the competences needed by both evidence users (policymakers) and evidence providers (researchers) to interact, and deliver effective evidence informed policymaking. ; JRC.H.1 - Knowledge for Policy: Concepts and Methods |