Technology infrastructures – facilities, equipment, capabilities and resources that support the development, testing and scaling of technologies before they enter the market – are an essential element of research and innovation. Technology infrastructures primarily support industrial users, lowe...

In January 2023, the European Commission published the Transition Pathway for the Chemical Industry (the Transition Pathway). This roadmap outlines about 190 actions that are necessary in order to accelerate the EU chemical industry’s green and digital transitions and to increase its resilience....

The Partnership for Assessment of Risk from Chemicals (PARC) provides a forum for collaboration across Europe between scientists and regulators and aims to pioneer scientific areas addressing most urgent regulatory challenges. In 2023, ECHA published a first map of its key areas of regulatory ch...

This research note examines the employment impact of AI in the EU between 2012 and 2022, using both descriptive and regression analyses on 3-digit occupational data from the EU Labour Force Survey, along with an AI exposure indicator from Felten et al. (2021). The findings reveal that AI exposur...

In 2027, the EU Emissions Trading System 2 (ETS2) will become fully operational. ETS2 is a new, separate EU ETS to cover sectors where progress on decarbonisation has historically been limited, namely road transport, buildings, and additional sectors (mainly industry not covered by ETS1). ETS2 i...