Skills are at the heart of industrial policy. The EU Industry Days 2019 demonstrated that skills are one of the main concerns of business leaders and social partners. Finding enough people with right skills and access to talents are key for the future of European industry. To prepare the longer-...
Plastics dominate our lives and are found in almost every human-built environment. We find them in our clothes, our houses, our places of work and almost all common consumer goods – including toys, televisions, smartphones and computers, to name but a few. Through the 20th century and beyond, pl...
In 2011 the JRC launched a repository for Representative Nanomaterials to support both EU and international research projects, and especially the OECD Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials that leads an exploratory programme "Testing a Representative set of Manufactured Nanomaterials", aim...
This scientific assessment serves as the basis for a materials research roadmap for bioenergy technology, itself an integral element of an overall "Materials Roadmap Enabling Low Carbon Technologies", a Commission Staff Working Document published in December 2011. The Materials Roadmap aims at c...
The review was carried out by a multi-disciplinary team, drawn from four EU countries (Denmark, France, Poland and the United Kingdom), with expertise in risk communication as well as in risk science and nanomaterials toxicity, and is divided into seven chapters, providing an introduction to the...
The seismic and energy retrofitting of existing European buildings with innovative materials is addressed in this report. The need for retrofitting of old buildings emanates from their substandard design in terms of both earthquake resistance and thermal insulation. This is revealed during stron...
“Dual‐Use products, services and technologies can address the needs of both civilian and defence communities. Dual‐use technology transfer is the ability to adapt a technology developed in one sector for use in the other. KETs (Key Enabling Technologies) as building block technologies embedded i...
This sectoral report has been prepared in the framework of the ‘Advanced Technologies for Industry’ (ATI) project, initiated by the European Commission’s Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs and the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. ...
In October 2011 the European Commission (EC) published a Recommendation on the definition of nanomaterial (2011/696/EU). The purpose of this definition is to enable determination when a material should be considered a nanomaterial for regulatory purposes in the European Union. In view of the upc...
EU-funded researchers are developing novel manufacturing techniques to cut the time and cost involved in producing lightweight, strong and durable components for aircraft, supporting efforts to reduce the environmental impact of aviation....