Policy prototyping 2026: call for participants

The Knowledge Centre Data & Society (KCDS) is re-opening the call for participants for our article 25 (4) AI Act policy prototyping exercise, an initiative first launched earlier this year. 

Our policy prototyping project will take a closer look at the minimum requirements in contracts between providers of high-risk AI systems and their suppliers in the AI Act (“AIA”).

We are looking for (i) AI providers and suppliers in the AI value chain and (ii) legal experts who could both contribute to the creation of prototype contractual clauses.

What is policy prototyping? 

Policy prototyping is a novel approach to rulemaking, comparable to product or beta testing. In contrast to traditional policymaking, where all kinds of stakeholders ‘only’ discuss rules before they enter into force, policy prototyping incorporates a field-testing phase of the new draft rules before finalising and fixating them. Further information on policy prototyping can be found here.

We previously organised policy prototyping projects in 2023 and 2024, focusing on transparency requirements (arts. 13 and 50 AIA) and human oversight requirements in the AI Act (art. 14 AIA). You can find the results and reports on our website. 

In order to achieve this, we plan to organise a co-creation workshop on February 4th 2026. The Knowledge Centre is looking for:

1) AI providers and suppliers of AI providers

• Companies developing AI systems;
• Companies supplying AI providers with e.g. tools, services, components, AI systems, data or processes;
• Deployers of AI systems, providing data or other services to companies developing AI systems on their behalf.
• Function: Use case providers and sounding board

Participating providers and suppliers will be able to have their business serve as a use case for the prototyping project. Concretely, their high-risk AI system, or the tools, services or components they supply will be used as the basis for prototype contractual clauses which comply with the AI Act requirements. Suppliers and providers can then give feedback on whether these clauses are well suited for their use. Finally, suppliers and providers can give feedback on the legal requirements in the AI Act. The Knowledge Centre will use the aggregated feedback to provide advice and insights regarding the AI Act to policymakers and other stakeholders.

The estimated time investment for use case providers is one and a half working days (an one-hour pitching session, a one-day workshop and up to half a day to provide input on the prototypes after the workshop).

If you would like to submit a use case for analysis during the workshop, please submit it using this form.

2) Legal/contract drafting experts

• Experts with (practical) experience and expertise in drafting IT contracts (ideally involving the development of AI systems or the supply of related services).
• Function: co-create and develop prototype contractual clauses (and related documentation, if needed).

Experts will help shape prototypes of the contractual clauses. They can also provide feedback on the AI Act's requirements. In the project they will have the opportunity to engage with the involved providers and suppliers, and improve their proficiency in drafting clauses to comply with the new AI Act requirements.

The estimated time investment for experts is two working days (a one-hour pitching session, one workshop day and one day to complete the prototypes).