Accurate and complete environmental information is at the basis of any effective sustainable development policy. This report summarises for the first time the status of air, climate, water and soil in the Western Balkans (WB), describing current knowledge as of 2021 and gaps with respect to the ...

The European Handbook for SDG Voluntary Local Reviews – 2022 edition provides policy makers, urban practitioners and experts with a consolidated method and examples of indicators that European local and regional governments can use to monitor the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals ...

Persisting territorial disparities across and within the EU represent, together with socioeconomic inequalities, a potential threat to the future of the European project. These inequalities are related to several spatial phenomena such as depopulation, limited access to services, lack of connect...

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 engaging with all r...

The wide diffusion of technologies, such as cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), and 4G/5G, has enabled many cities to transform into hubs of digital transformation, deploying urban platforms, digital twins of cities and other digital ecosystems that leverage geospatial information. Sm...

This report describes the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on the European labour market for three groups in the resident population: natives, EU born, and non-EU born. Combining macroeconomic data on the main labour market indicators - activity rate, employment rate, unemployment rate - wi...

The European Green Deal and its target for reducing emissions together with the New EU Urban Mobility Framework put public transport in the spotlight of EU mobility policies. Research and innovation is thus required in order to respond to these needs. This report provides a review of recent tren...

The editors of this volume provide the reader with an interesting and timely analysis of the relationship between international testing and educational policy formulation across 10 EU Member States. The resulting national profiles and findings come at a sensitive time in our collective history, ...

This handbook is published in the context of AI Watch, the European Commission’s knowledge service to monitor the development, uptake and impact of AI for Europe, which was launched in December 2018 as part of the Coordinated Plan on the Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence Made in Eur...

The Arctic region is expected to be increasingly affected by both ecological and anthropogenic processes, as a result of the climate change and socio-economic pressures. The goal of the EC JRC Arctic resilience ongoing study is to investigate the potential of existing EC JRC products and project...