Ce projet vise à construire un réseau européen capable de mettre en relation les chercheurs en sciences sociales avec les acteurs publics (tels que les décideurs aux niveaux européen, national et régional) ainsi qu'avec les organisations privées chargées de l'évaluation des politiques afin de promouvoir l'utilisation d'approches expérimentales pour l'évaluation de la politique agricole commune (PAC) . REECAP vise à développer davantage les outils expérimentaux et les connaissances pour guider le processus décisionnel de l'UE et améliorer les futures mesures de la PAC.

REECAP is a EU-wide consortium created in 2017. REECAP is open to those who wish to promote behavioural analysis and economic experimental designs for the ex-ante and ex-post evaluation of European agricultural policies.

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The REECAP project, funded by Alliance Europa, is structured into 3 working groups: 1.METHOD: Bringing experiments into agricultural policy; 2. IMPACT: Bringing agricultural policy into the experimental field, 3. OUTREACH

The METHOD group organized training sessions, under the form of webinars, with the objective to help new researchers to the field to present their experimental protocols before starting to collect data. Those training sessions were called « Check before you collect » and were successful. There are still on-going 2 to 3 times a year.

An online forum was created, in order for researchers to exchange on their research and experimental protocols.

The buddy system that was envisaged for senior researchers to junior ones hasn’t been implemented yet, but the REECAP network allowed informal meetings between senior researchers and PhD students.

The REECAP network also promoted open science, including the replication of experiments in order to face the science credibility crisis. The network has worked on the replication of an experiment on farmers’ risk attitudes in 11 European countries, involving 24 researchers and collecting data from 1 400 farmers. The Alliance Europa grant allowed to compensate French farmers for their participation to the experiment, as well as creating dissemination videos. This research was published in 2023 in a special issue of Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy

The IMPACT group organized 3 meetings for knowledge exchanges across evaluation communities, including the research and policy communities: 2 were webinars and the 2022 one was a in-person workshop in Sweden.

A compilation of resources (briefs, videos, articles) that can be useful for policy makers to understand the value-added of experimental approaches for agricultural policy design was collected and is available to REECAP board members. An article “Can Economic Experiments Contribute to a More Effective CAP?” has been published open-access in Eurochoices, a journal largely read by EU policy-makers. Publications have also been released in general public magazines such as The Conversation (November 2020) and Sesame (November 2021).

The OUTREACH group has published 9 newsletters to inform REECAP network about the activities organized by the project, other relevant conferences and job opportunities, as well as sharing information about relevant publications and working papers. Workshops’ slides and programs are available on the website (reecap.org). The list of network members is updated regularly to facilitate exchange with the community. This was possible thanks to Alliance Europa funding of a communication intern.