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The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is aimed at boosting intra-African trade and promoting regional development. However, the distribution of its benefits and costs across member states and household groups is uneven, and it presents opportunities and threats to different sectors of...

The current challenges affecting the EU food system call for an urgent shift towards more sustainability. As set out by the Commission Farm to Fork Strategy, the path to achieve such an ambitious goal should promote policy coherence at EU and national level, mainstream sustainability in food-rel...

The creation of favourable food environments that make sustainable food choices easier to consumers is critical to the EU transition to a more sustainable food system. An important barrier to sustainable food choices relates to the absence of clear and trustful information that could help consum...

Academic research papers from life sciences fields, such as biomedicine and biology, are often missing essential details about study methods. This can undermine trust, limit the use of new methods and hinder reproducibility and data reuse. Promoting Reusable and Open Methods and Protocols (PRO-M...

The current challenges affecting the EU food system call for an urgent shift towards more sustainability. In this context, voluntary Green public procurement criteria (GPP), referring to the environmental dimension, exist at EU level since 2008. Sustainable public procurement (SPP) could play a ...

Giga is a joint initiative between United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the International Telecommunication Union to map schools and educational facilities worldwide, along with the quality of their connection to the internet. In this report, the authors demonstrate the use of the Degree ...

Microplastics are ubiquitous and have been found nearly everywhere in the environment as well as in food. However, the properties, distribution and effects of microplastics are currently only partially understood, meaning that many different research questions still need to be answered. For doin...

In response to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the needs of EU Member States and policy makers related to antigen testing, DG SANTE and the JRC set up a structured targeted approach, which also facilitated the implementation of the EU Digital COVID Certificate (EUDCC). The EU H...

The EU Biodiversity Strategy includes the target that at least 25000 km of rivers should be restored into free-flowing rivers by 2030 through the removal of primarily obsolete barriers and the restoration of floodplains and wetlands. This document proposes criteria for identifying free-flowing r...

This document introduces proposed accelerated stress testing (AST) protocols for assessing the performance degradation of water electrolyser (WE) stacks. These stacks play a crucial role in generating clean hydrogen in bulk amounts through the electrolysis of water, primarily using electricity f...