The European Green Deal is a major contribution for the health of our planet and our people – and for our economy. In order for Europe to become a climate-neutral continent by 2050, this will require decarbonisation at a speed at least six times faster than anything achieved glob...
The Technical Architecture document on Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) describes a high-level view on components and stakeholders relevant inside an architecture for persistent identification based on namespaces. It is generic in the sense that the components are described independ...
Research and innovation provide new knowledge and innovative solutions to overcome our societal, ecological and economic challenges. Horizon Europe helps researchers and top class innovators to develop and deploy their ideas. It supports excellent science by teaming up the best t...
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) entail the substantial reallocation of economic activities. When they involve distant acquiring and target companies, they transfer control and diffuse knowledge across locations, which in turn facilitates the process of the integration of busin...
Citizen Science evolved from a long tradition in fields, such as biodiversity and meteorology, into almost all scientific fields. Simultaneously, regional and global communities became well organised and interconnected, and we arrived at a situation in which Citizen Science is no...
As in many occasions in marine sciences, it is impossible to know the true value of the primary production rates (PPR) in EU waters. There exist different approaches based on diverse methodologies (water incubation, remote sensing and numerical models) all with flaws and strength...
This briefing explores the performance gap between EU-15 and EU-13 countries under Horizon 2020, the reasons for this gap and policy options at national and EU levels. ...
This briefing analyses gender and geographical balance in the governance structures of Horizon 2020. ...
The main objective of the EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard (the Scoreboard) is to benchmark the performance of EU innovation-driven industries against major global counterparts. The 2020 edition of the Scoreboard analyses the 2500 companies that invested the largest su...
In the past several decades, in Europe and across the world there have been significant changes. The main trends include: — The increasing complexity of problems such as climate change, global migration and growing resistance to life-saving drugs; — The ubiquity of data; — The pr...
Evaluating the potential impacts of each policy on all sustainability dimensions (economic, social and environmental), as captured in the UN SDGs and their targets, requires system thinking and shifting away from single disciplinary projects towards multi- and inter- disciplinary...
The purpose of the inventory was to reveal practices that had been used to promote creativity as a transversal skill. These include initiatives that vary in terms of design, conceptualisation of creativity and methodological approach. To identify relevant practices, an online sur...
In its communication on Short-term EU health preparedness for COVID-19 outbreaks (COM(2020) 318 final) the Commission calls for “targeted and localised non-medical countermeasures, informed by research and evidence” to avoid major social and economic consequences from large-scale...
The purpose of the case studies was to reveal how creativity is conceptualised, translated into learning objectives, taught, and assessed. Out of 34 cases described for the inventory (see Annex II to the present report), eight were selected for a more detailed review: - Three ...
In May 2019, DG MARE and the JRC published its Blue economy Report. The main focus was on boosting a “blue” economy, the sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth, through entrepreneurship, investment, and research and innovation. In order to better understand and il...
The main aim of the GRAMAT project was to acquire the critical knowledge necessary to develop new costeffective manufacturing technology of boiler tubes made from ingots with through thickness gradient chemical composition. The idea is to use these gradient tubes in biomass boile...
Anthracene oil-based pitches were prepared at semiindustrial scale, using two methodologies: air-blowing treatment and microwave heating. Air blowing was revealed as a flexible procedure, allowing the manufacture of carbon precursors with different properties. Microwave technolog...
Data mining processes have proven to be very valuable for addressing industrial issues such as understanding defect crisis. In classical data mining procedure, only “single value” variables are considered, meaning that one coil is typically characterized by average values of many...
This study investigates the role that the Joint Research Centre (JRC) can play in supporting urban policymaking within the framework for sustainable urban development proposed by the New Leipzig Charter (NLC). It analyses how the core urban activities of the Territorial Developme...
This report is the result of a joint effort by experts, working in the fields of risk management, accident analysis, learning from experience and safety management. They come from 10 countries, mainly from Europe but also from the USA and Australia. Their expertise covers several...
The Task Force on Scholarly Infrastructures of Research Software, as part of the Architecture WG of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Executive Board, has established a set of recommendations to allow EOSC to include software, next to other research outputs like publications...
Within the quality assurance programme for air quality monitoring in Europe the JRC European Reference Laboratory for Air Pollution (ERLAP) organises Inter-Laboratory Comparison Exercises (ILC) for EU national air quality reference laboratories. An ILC for the determination of PM...
This report assesses the potential of gyroscopes and accelerometers based on cold atom interferometry (CAI) for space and defence applications, by analysing their strengths and weaknesses in comparison with devices based on other working principles. Indeed, it is widely recognize...
New approaches to biodiversity conservation or unexpected but irreversible forms of environmental disruption? ...
This report reflects upon the concept of social innovation and the way it is used in the energy sector. It does so by bringing together theoretical investigations and empirical knowledge. We aim to clarify the concept of social innovation in the energy sector by reviewing the lit...
This report scopes the issue of the reproducibility of scientific results, based on a field review and on an expert seminar on the opportunity of policy action in Europe. As such, it aims to increase the European Commission’s understanding of the lack of reproducibility in Europe...
This document presents a sectoral analysis of AI in health and healthcare for AI Watch, the knowledge service of the European Commission monitoring the development, uptake and impact of Artificial Intelligence for Europe. Its main aim is to act as a benchmark for future editions ...
Investments in research and innovation improve Europeans’ quality of life. Research and innovation accelerate the green and digital transformations that our planet needs, but also increase the competitiveness of our economies. The EU and Member States need to allocate enough reso...
Integrating sex and gender analysis into research and innovation adds value to research and increases its societal relevance. It is thereby crucial to secure Europe’s leadership in science and technology, and support its inclusive growth. To further strengthen the integration of ...
This document explores possible means for sustaining the European Open Science Cloud beyond its initial phase which terminates at the end of 2020. This independent document builds on earlier strawman and tinman versions and the feedback received from the EOSC Executive Board, Gov...
This factsheet presents key findings from the EC policy report “Gendered Innovations 2: How inclusive analysis contributes to research and innovation” developed by the Expert Group on Gendered Innovations put in place by the European Commission to provide methodological tools for...
The aim of the paper is to analyze the set of policy instruments (and the policy mix) used to enhance knowledge transfer and science-industry relationships in eight selected countries. There are various arguments about the importance of knowledge transfer. Firstly, we have a limi...
The Customs Surveillance system (Surveillance Monitoring System (SMS) or Surveillance) of DG Taxation and Customs Union (DG TAXUD) centralises all European Union import and export declarations, collected from the national customs authorities on a daily basis according to Article ...
The Transitions Performance Index (TPI) 2020 is the first edition of a new composite indicator, which measures the performance of countries along four transitions: economic, social, environmental and governance. Most of the TPI indicators are outcome-oriented in order to present ...
This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the FEMM Committee, provides evidence that there is still gender bias and inequality in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) f...
The Landscape Working Group (WG) of the EOSC Executive Board has surveyed and documented the landscape of infrastructures, initiatives and policies across Europe relating to the development of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). This report describes activities in the Member ...
The Landscape Working Group of the EOSC Executive Board surveyed and documented the landscape of infrastructures, initiatives, and policies across Europe relating to the development of the EOSC system. While the Landscape Report summarised the existing policies and investments ba...
Labour productivity growth in developed economies has slowed down during the last decade relative to the pre-Great Recession period. The EU27 has been no exception to this trend, keeping both a large negative gap relative to the US and strong country heterogeneity following an un...
DG AGRI is currently supporting under Horizon 2020 an European Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) on agricultural soil management to overcome current fragmentation in national research programmes and unleash the potential of agricultural soils to contribute to climate change miti...
Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs) have been widely applied as credible models for the development and operation of public infrastructure. Through private sector involvement, the public sector manages to better control costs and debt levels and, in return, offers to the private s...
This CORDIS Results Pack highlights important and cross-sectoral EU-funded research initiatives that have been working towards ensuring the sustainable future of the Black Sea by supporting its research and innovation ecosystem. The Black Sea has always left a powerful impression...
The goal of the European Innovation Council (EIC), enshrined in the Horizon Europe 2021–2027 programme, is to position Europe firmly at the forefront of the next wave of breakthrough innovation. This sets out the need for the introduction of proactive management of EIC funding an...
This study assesses the implementation of the current EU fisheries control system by Member States. It focuses on the application of national infringement procedures, sanctions and the point system for serious infringements from 2014 to 2019. The research shows results based on i...
The present work is the result of over one year of discussions among experts and European Commission (EC) staff from the different relevant services in order to provide guidelines in the form of a decision tree for research organisations when dealing with the current EC rules and...
The rapid pace of technology advancements, the open innovation paradigm, and the ubiquity of high-speed connectivity, greatly facilitate access to information to individuals, increasing their opportunities to achieve greater emancipation and empowerment. This provides new opportu...
