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The Prospect Think Tank Awards 2019 are about to begin, rewarding the smartest research going on here, in Europe and further afield. Guests are arriving and we will soon reveal the winners. Follow along on #TTA19

Baroness Neville-Jones kicks us off- she warns that the competition is fierce this year! Editor Tom Clark is up next

Think tanks are grappling with issues that will define the 21st century- automation, ageing populations, and especially the climate emergency. Our first category, coming up, will be science and the environment, with entrants from the US and rest of the world #TTA19

And the award goes to the International Institute for Sustainable Development! Well done to them

The winner of the World Economics category is in - it's the Peterson Institute for International Economics! Congratulations #TTA19 @AdamPosen

@AdamPosen In Foreign Affairs, in the global category, the top prize goes again to the International Institute for Sustainable Development! #TTA19

@AdamPosen In world social policy, the winner is the Brazil-based Instituto Igarape. Congratulations! #TTA19

@AdamPosen Moving to entrants from Europe, our first category is science and the environment. And the winner is.... The Fridtjof Nansen Institute from Norway. Well done! #TTA19

@AdamPosen In European Economics, the top prize goes to @Bruegel_org for all their excellent work on the challenges facing the Eurozone #TTA19

@AdamPosen @Bruegel_org In Foreign Affairs, the win goes to the @ecfr . Many congratulations to them. #TTA19

@AdamPosen @Bruegel_org @ecfr And in European Social Policy, it's... SNS! Well done. #TTA19

@AdamPosen @Bruegel_org @ecfr Now, bringing it all back home, we move to entrants from the UK. In the Science and Environment category the winner is... @IPPR ! Well done

@AdamPosen @Bruegel_org @ecfr @IPPR Next up is Economics, and after a rare year off in 2018, the award goes to @TheIFS . Congratulations #TTA19

@AdamPosen @Bruegel_org @ecfr @IPPR @TheIFS In Foreign Affairs, it's the UK in a Changing Europe who clinch first place in a strong field

@AdamPosen @Bruegel_org @ecfr @IPPR @TheIFS Moving to our final awards, in UK social policy it was another tightly bunched category. But the winner by a whisker is @csjthinktank

@AdamPosen @Bruegel_org @ecfr @IPPR @TheIFS @csjthinktank That just leaves our final two awards. First up is the one to watch- for the think tank we recommend everyone looks out for in the year ahead. And the 2019 winner is... The International institute for Sustainable Development!

@AdamPosen @Bruegel_org @ecfr @IPPR @TheIFS @csjthinktank And last up is the think tank of the year. The organisation we think has been really outstanding in 2019. And that organisation is... @instituteforgov !

Thanks all for following- and see you next year! #TTA19