Between 2018 and 2022, over 80% of JRC scientific publications were co-authored with scientists from approximately 3 200 institutions across 134 countries on all continents. Among these, researchers from EU countries were the most numerous, ranging from 255 in Germany to nearly 200 in France, Italy, and Spain, as well as others across all EU Member States. The JRC pursues an active international cooperation with countries associated to Horizon Europe, as well as, bilaterally, with the USA, Japan, South Africa, India, Brasil, as well as at regional level with the African Union, CELAC, ASEAN. Additionally, significant cooperation took place within the framework of the United Nations.
The JRC has over 200 active collaboration agreements with external partners in EU Member States, of which around 30% are related to nuclear topics. By working in enhanced partnerships, the JRC improves its capacity to anticipate new challenges and opportunities. It also helps policymakers better understand issues and provide answers and solutions to the complex and interlinked challenges faced by our societies. Collaborations involve research projects, knowledge dissemination, policy papers, workshops, conferences and initiatives to promote the mobility and training of scientists.
The JRC has in place a multi-level system of networks to manage relationships with Member States and beyond, such as the countries associated to the Horizon Europe programme. Its main stakeholders are either institutional policymakers, who often coordinate the science for policy communities under their geographical competence, as well as knowledge holders and producers, to facilitate the exchange of data, expertise and resources. Proximity partnerships are particularly structured and intense with the host countries of JRC sites: Ispra in Italy, Seville in Spain, Petten in the Netherlands, Geel in Belgium and Karlsruhe in Germany.
scientific publications were co-authored with scientists from approximately 3 200 institutions across 134 countries on all continents.Between 2018 and 2022, over 80% of JRC
