Course description

Regulations – if not designed and implemented properly – can create administrative burdens, hinder growth, and stimulate corruption. At the same time, good regulation can foster socially inclusive innovation, increase preparedness to crises, protect the environment, and build resiliency. High-quality regulation is therefore key to a successful ecological and digital transition.

In its 5^th edition, this four-day executive training programme will provide participants with a comprehensive and practical know-how and skills-set on high-quality regulation, considering both the dimension of analysis and the practical dimension, sharing experience on how to manage rules across their life cycle to achieve meaningful governance objectives. The programme integrates operational lessons from a wide cross-national and multi-level perspectives, with sessions on artificial intelligence, climate, and energy.

Please stay tuned for the final programme agenda.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this programme, the participants will be able to:

• Carry out the most important steps of consultation, impact assessment, and regulatory evaluation;
• Explain and communicate regulatory analysis to decision-makers;
• Provide feedback to stakeholders on their input to consultation;
• Judge the quality of regulatory analyses, use their findings and communicate them to different audiences;
• Appraise the implications of a given regulatory proposal for innovation and the sustainable development goals;
• Expand the regulatory reform tools and analysis to integrate the sustainable development goals, innovation, and foresight.

Learning methods

• Interactive sessions and discussions with the instructors;
• Co-teaching with two instructors, guiding the discussion from different angles;
• Peer-to-peer learning;
• Role-play and case studies;
• Tailor-made components co-designed with the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.

Who should attend

• Utility regulators;
• Public managers responsible for the development of regulatory proposals in national or regional administrators;
• Officers who carry out consultation, simplification programmes, and economic analysis of regulation;
• Managers who have to read and communicate the findings of regulatory analysis critically;
• Evaluators of existing laws and regulations in government or private firms;

Information for applicants

• The in-person training course will take place in Florence between 16, 17, 18 and 19 March 2026. Registrants who are selected will be expected to be present on the EUI campus in Florence, Italy, on the days of the training;
• The programme will include approximately 20 hours of in-session training, not including lunches or coffee breaks;
• Participants will be enrolled on the EUI’s virtual learning environment (Brightspace) to access the materials of the course;
• Accepted participants who successfully complete the training course will receive a Certificate of Attendance from the EUI’s School of Transnational Governance.