When policymakers create laws that affect millions of Europeans, how can they be confident that these laws will help people live better and safely? Which sources of information can they rely on? Who can they trust?
The Joint Research Centre (JRC) is the scientific and knowledge service of the European Commission. It provides independent, evidence-based knowledge and science supporting EU policies to positively impact society.
The JRC plays a key role at multiple stages of the policy cycle. It works closely with other Commission departments, EU institutions and agencies, as well as with scientific partners and policy organisations in Europe and internationally. It also has close links with the science for policy ecosystems in the 27 EU Member States at all levels, including their regional and local dimensions.
Through its Scientific Directorates and five scientific sites based in Italy, Germany, Belgium the Netherlands and Spain, it offers scientific expertise and competencies from a wide range of scientific disciplines in support of the policy priorities of the European Commission.
The JRC’s areas of competence include energy, mobility and climate, sustainable resources, societal resilience and security, health and food, a fair and sustainable economy, data and digital transformation, innovation in science and policymaking, and nuclear safety and security. It also manages top-level research infrastructures in more than 50 large-scale laboratories.
stages of the policy cycle. It works closely with other Commission departments, EU institutions and agencies, as well as with scientific partners and policy organisations in Europe and internationally.The JRC plays a key role at multiple
