CO2 emissions reduction targets for 2025 and 2030 have been introduced for new heavy lorries sold in the EU. The targets currently apply to the lorry groups that account for around 65 % to 70 % of all heavy-duty vehicles’ CO2 emissions in the EU. The reference against which the r...

The European Innovation Council (EIC) Pilot was launched in 2018 to support breakthrough innovation and scaling up of European deep-tech start-ups in view of setting up a fully-fledged EIC for the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027. The study looks at how the programme was...

The European Innovation Council (EIC) Pilot was launched in 2018 to support breakthrough innovation and scaling up of European deep-tech start-ups in view of setting up a fully-fledged EIC for the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027. The study looks at how the programme was...

The European Innovation Council (EIC) Pilot was launched in 2018 to support breakthrough innovation and scaling up of European deep-tech start-ups in view of setting up a fully-fledged EIC for the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027. The study looks at how the programme was...

Gender equality is a fundamental value of the European Union that is mainstreamed into policy areas and laws to combat gender inequalities in the EU and its Member States. Nonetheless, the field of research and innovation (R & I) is marked by significant gender inequalities. ...

In the past few years, key elements that appear to support gender equality work in research and innovation (R & I) organisations and in research funding bodies have been identified. When these elements are present in organisations, efforts towards gender equality are more lik...

The COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, digital transformation, demographic changes and other global challenges are urging us to take profound yet agile policy action at all levels. The scale and complexity of the action needed make it essential that we perform this work while eng...

Policymaking has been changing with unprecedented speed in recent years, characterised by rapid technological development, climate change, geopolitical crises, and important changes in society and in citizens' expectations. These changes require policymakers to be increasingl...

The European Green Deal is Europe’s new growth approach which aims to make Europe the first climate neutral continent in the world, by ensuring no net emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050 and by decoupling economic growth from resource use. While achieving these objectives, no p...

This Topic Report provides a summary on the Mutual Learning Exercise on Good Practices on Citizen Science and their Impact. This document starts by presenting the examples of successful CS national projects chosen by the 11 countries participating in the MLE, and the variables ag...