Case Study
Barcelona Alumni: A digital science-policy nexus connecting international talent to local challenges
![Barcelona Alumni is a network for talents that studied or worked in Barcelona but reside abroad.](https://oecd-opsi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/BarcelonaAlumni-200x150.png)
In 2020, Barcelona Alumni’s global virtual platform was launched to leverage the network of international talent educated in Barcelona but residing abroad and contribute to feeding scientific evidence into the local policy-making process. By connecting international experts and local challenges, this first-of-its-kind digital platform provides a pioneering approach to policy-making, making it more crowdsourced, evidence-based, replicable, scalable, accountable, and transparent.