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Regional indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals [er] : an analysis based on the cases of the Basque Country, Navarre and Flanders. European Commission. Joint Research Centre.

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Luxembourg : Publications Office, 2021.

Summary

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (United Nations 2015) (hereafter 2030 Agenda) and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are built as a global framework but call for action by all levels of government: from national to sub-national governments and local administrations. The 2030 Agenda is considered as part of a global effort to achieve sustainability (via goals and targets) in all countries. However, the 2030 Agenda also encourages each territory to develop its own path towards sustainable development based on its own context, potential and resources. Indeed, the territorial dimension and adaptation to the local scale are ground-breaking characteristics of the 2030 Agenda. Since the initial phases of definition of the 2030 Agenda, both the United Nations and the European institutions have emphasized that the Agenda needs to be implemented and monitored at the territorial levels closer to citizens (inter alia United Nations Development Programme and UN-Habitat 2015; European Commission 2016). At the global level, the 17 SDGs and 169 targets are monitored and reviewed using a set of global indicators (Global Indicator Framework for the SDGs). The Global Indicator Framework has been developed by the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) and agreed upon at the 48th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission held in March 2017. The follow-up and review process are informed by an annual SDG Progress Report prepared by the UN Secretary-General (United Nations 2016; 2017; 2018; 2019; 2020). The 2030 Agenda implementation mechanism provides tools to monitor the progress of countries towards the SDGs and several specific activities supporting countries in reporting their progress. Already after one year from the approval of the Agenda, a few local authorities around the world started to also measure their progress towards the SDGs. Most of these frontrunners adapted the type of document designed for member states (Voluntary National Reviews - VNRs) and published the first-generation Voluntary Local Reviews (VLRs). The VLRs have proved to be fundamental instruments to monitor progress and sustain the transformative and inclusive action of local actors towards the achievement of the SDGs and competitive sustainability. To support these first experiences, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) and other European institutions have developed a wide range of initiatives for the “localization of SDGs” that aim at bringing the 2030 Agenda to the local level. Among those, in February 2020, the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission published the European Handbook for SDG Voluntary Local Reviews (hereafter European Handbook) (Siragusa et al. 2020) to provide local authorities with a practical guide to select SDG indicators and measure their progress. This report aims at contributing to the potential adaptation of the Joint Research Centre’s URBAN2030 Project and its Handbook to a sub-national-regional scale. While most of the efforts of international organisations have focused mostly on supporting cities (inter alia Siragusa et al. 2020; Ciambra 2021; UCLG Community of Practice on VLRs and UN-Habitat 2020; Fox and Macleod 2019; ESCAP 2020), few knowledge and technical support have been provided to European regions willing to measure their progress towards the SDGs (inter alia OECD 2020; Hidalgo Simón 2021; Widuto 2020). This report aims at filling this technical gap, starting from what has been used until now and checking its coherence with the implementation of SDGs in a regional context The final objective is to create a knowledge base that can be used as a reference for regional governments to help them develop their SDG Voluntary Subnational Reviews, and to also recommend the use of harmonized indicators. Starting from case studies, the report provides examples and recommendations for the measurement of SDGs with a proper set of indicators for European regions.

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Joint Research Centre work programme 2021-2022. European Commission. Joint Research Centre.

Publication

Luxembourg : Publications Office, 2021.

Summary

As the European Commission’s science and knowledge service, the JRC provides independent scientific advice and support to EU policy, in order to tackle the interlinked and complex challenges faced by our society. The European Commission has set its ambition high in how Europe should respond to planetary challenges, climate change and ecosystem degradation, the digital acceleration, changing demographics, shifting human geography and the future of work, all against a rapidly evolving geopolitical context. Europe needs to build its own resilience, and to do so at a time when we are recovering from the effects of a global pandemic. Operating at the interface between science and policy, the JRC wants to strengthen its capacity to be a key partner in helping to identify solutions to such challenges. In our 2021-2022 Work Programme, we support all Commission’s political priorities and most initiatives included in the Commission 2021 work programme and contribute to the implementation of the Horizon Europe and Euratom research and training programme.

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Joint Research Centre work programme 2021-2022 [er]. European Commission. Joint Research Centre.

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Luxembourg : Publications Office, 2021.

Summary

As the European Commission’s science and knowledge service, the JRC provides independent scientific advice and support to EU policy, in order to tackle the interlinked and complex challenges faced by our society. The European Commission has set its ambition high in how Europe should respond to planetary challenges, climate change and ecosystem degradation, the digital acceleration, changing demographics, shifting human geography and the future of work, all against a rapidly evolving geopolitical context. Europe needs to build its own resilience, and to do so at a time when we are recovering from the effects of a global pandemic. Operating at the interface between science and policy, the JRC wants to strengthen its capacity to be a key partner in helping to identify solutions to such challenges. In our 2021-2022 Work Programme, we support all Commission’s political priorities and most initiatives included in the Commission 2021 work programme and contribute to the implementation of the Horizon Europe and Euratom research and training programme.

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Open access to JRC research infrastructures [er]. European Commission. Joint Research Centre.

Publication	Luxembourg : Publications Office, 2021.
Summary	The European Commission‘s Joint Research Centre (JRC) gives leading researchers from across Europe and beyond access to its world-class facilities and laboratories, enabling state-of-the-art experimental research, collaboration and capacity building with a European dimension. It does so through the programme for open access to JRC research infrastructures.

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NER300 annual report 2020 [er] : administrative arrangement DG CLIMA deliverable 2.2.1. European Commission. Joint Research Centre.

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Luxembourg : Publications Office, 2021.

Summary

NER 300 is an EU funding programme for the demonstration of innovative renewable energy technologies at the pre-commercial stage. Projects have to submit annually to the European Commission relevant knowledge gained, which is assessed with a view to establishing whether the project has adequately complied with its obligations. This report summarises the key lessons learnt so far and the recommendations of the JRC on the knowledge gained and the lessons learnt.

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Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF) [er] : 66th plenary report (PLEN-21-01). European Commission. Joint Research Centre.

Publication

Luxembourg : Publications Office, 2021.

Summary

Commission Decision of 25 February 2016 setting up a Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries, C(2016) 1084, OJ C 74, 26.2.2016, p. 4–10. The Commission may consult the group on any matter relating to marine and fisheries biology, fishing gear technology, fisheries economics, fisheries governance, ecosystem effects of fisheries, aquaculture or similar disciplines. The Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries held its 66th plenary as virtual meeting from 22 to 26 March 2021.

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Preparation and certification of the uranium oxide micro particle reference material IRMM-2331P [er] : certified for isotope ratios. European Commission. Joint Research Centre.

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Luxembourg : Publications Office, 2021.

Summary

This report describes the certification of IRMM-2331P, a uranium micro particle reference material. This certification project was a collaboration between the Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), Germany, and the Joint Research Centre (JRC), Unit G.2 in Geel, Belgium. The reference material was produced in compliance with ISO/IEC 17034:2016 [1] and certified in accordance with ISO Guide 35:2006 [2]. Uncertainties of the certified values were estimated in compliance with ISO/IEC Guide 98-3:2008 (the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement, GUM) [3]. In order to achieve "fit-for-purpose" isotope ratios for particle analysis, the base material IRMM-2330 was prepared by mixing of two uranium nitrate solutions, which were prepared by conversion of uranium hexafluoride (UF6) materials. Certification of the uranium isotopic composition for the base material IRMM-2330 was performed directly by Thermal Ionisation Mass Spectrometry (TIMS) using the Modified Total Evaporation (MTE) method at JRC-G2, and the results were verified by TIMS/MTE measurements at the IAEA. The production of the uranium particles was performed at the FZJ using a dedicated method based on spray-pyrolysis of droplets generated with a vibrating orifice aerosol generator (VOAG). Verification measurements of the base solution and ‘process control measurements’ on dissolved uranium particles were performed at the FZJ via Multi Collector Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (MC-ICPMS) and the results agreed with the isotopic composition of the base solution IRMM-2330. This agreement permitted the certification of the isotopic composition for the particle reference material IRMM-2331P to be performed using the certified isotopic composition of the base material IRMM-2330. The reference material is intended for the calibration of instruments and methods, quality control purposes, and the assessment of method performance for isotope mass spectrometry on uranium particles. As with any certified reference material, it can also be used for validation studies. The following certified values and expanded uncertainties were assigned for isotope amount ratios, isotope amount fractions, isotope mass fractions, and molar mass for IRMM-2331P.

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Horizon scanning for nuclear safety, security & safeguards yearly report 2020 [er] : creating an anticipatory capacity within the JRC. European Commission. Joint Research Centre.

Publication

Luxembourg : Publications Office, 2021.

Summary

Horizon Scanning (HS) is a systematic outlook to detect early signs of potentially important developments. JRC.I.2 unit created and, in collaboration with partner JRC Knowledge Management Units, tested a methodology for a horizon scanning process at JRC level. Benefiting from this support and following this methodology, JRC.G.10 unit has collected throughout the year 2020 a number of ideas related to nuclear technology, that were later on pre-filtered and finally clustered in a so called 'sense-making workshop'. This report presents the outcome of this yearly exercise.

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Institute for Advanced Materials : annual report 1994. European Commission. Joint Research Centre.

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Luxembourg : Publications Office, 1994.

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Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF) [er] : 65th plenary report (PLEN-20-03). European Commission. Joint Research Centre.

Publication

Luxembourg : Publications Office, 2020.

Summary

Commission Decision of 25 February 2016 setting up a Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries, C(2016) 1084, OJ C 74, 26.2.2016, p. 4–10. The Commission may consult the group on any matter relating to marine and fisheries biology, fishing gear technology, fisheries economics, fisheries governance, ecosystem effects of fisheries, aquaculture or similar disciplines. The Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries held its 65th plenary as virtual meeting from 9 to 13 November 2020.

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Artificial intelligence at the JRC [er] : 2nd workshop on artificial intelligence at the JRC, Ispra 5th July 2019. European Commission. Joint Research Centre.

Publication

Luxembourg : Publications Office, 2020.

Summary

This document presents the contributions discussed at the second institutional workshop on Artificial Intelligence (AI), organized by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. This workshop was held on 05th July 2019 at the premises of the JRC in Ispra (Italy), with video-conference to all JRC's sites. The workshop aimed to gather JRC specialists on AI and Big Data and share their experience, identify opportunities for meeting EC demands on AI, and explore synergies among the different JRC's working groups on AI. In comparison with the first event, according to the JRC Director General Vladimír Šuchav, the activities and results presented in this second workshop demonstrated a significant development of AI research and applications by JRC in different policy areas. He suggested to think about replicating the event at the premises of diverse policy DGs in order to present and discuss the clear opportunities created by JRC activities. After the opening speech by the JRC Director General Vladimír Šuchav, the research and innovation presentation were anticipated by two presentations by Alessandro Annoni and Stefano Nativi. The first presentation dealt with the results of one year of AI@JRC and six months of fully operational AI&BD community of practice1. The second presentation reported the results of the AI competences survey at JRC. The research and innovation contributions consisted in flash presentations (5 minutes) covering a wide range of areas. This report is structured according to the diverse domain areas addressed by the presenters. While the first part of the workshop was mainly informative, in the second part we collectively discussed about how to move on and evolve the AI&BD community of practice.

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Servicios del JRC [er] : manual para las autoridades nacionales, regionales y locales sobre cómo y por qué colaborar con el servicio de ciencia y conocimiento de la Comisión Europea. European Commission. Joint Research Centre.

Publication

Luxembourg : Publications Office, 2019.

Summary

El manual ofrece una amplia visión general de las capacidades en ciencia para la formulación de políticas del Centro Común de Investigación (Joint Research Centre - JRC) para ayudar a los gobiernos e instituciones nacionales a alcanzar sus objetivos sobre una base de pruebas sólidas. Los servicios se presentan tanto en una sección temática que abarca diferentes ámbitos políticos como en una sección horizontal que abarca una oferta más genérica, como: acceso a datos e infraestructuras, educación y formación o materiales de referencia certificados. El manual va dirigido principalmente al personal de las administraciones de los Estados miembros de la UE y a los países asociados a Horizonte 2020, pero también puede interesar a organizaciones científicas nacionales y regionales, académicos y responsables políticos.

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Servicios del JRC : manual para las autoridades nacionales, regionales y locales sobre cómo y por qué colaborar con el servicio de ciencia y conocimiento de la Comisión Europea. European Commission. Joint Research Centre.

Publication

Luxembourg : Publications Office, 2019.

Summary

El manual ofrece una amplia visión general de las capacidades en ciencia para la formulación de políticas del Centro Común de Investigación (Joint Research Centre - JRC) para ayudar a los gobiernos e instituciones nacionales a alcanzar sus objetivos sobre una base de pruebas sólidas. Los servicios se presentan tanto en una sección temática que abarca diferentes ámbitos políticos como en una sección horizontal que abarca una oferta más genérica, como: acceso a datos e infraestructuras, educación y formación o materiales de referencia certificados. El manual va dirigido principalmente al personal de las administraciones de los Estados miembros de la UE y a los países asociados a Horizonte 2020, pero también puede interesar a organizaciones científicas nacionales y regionales, académicos y responsables políticos.

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Ocean color calibration and validation : the JRC contribution to Copernicus. European Commission. Joint Research Centre.

Publication

Luxembourg : Publications Office, 2020.

Summary

Copernicus Sentinel-3 missions, including the ongoing Sentinel-3A and -3B and the future Sentinel-3C and -3D, offer an unprecedented opportunity for long-term ocean colour observations to support global environmental and climate investigations. Nevertheless, any ocean colour mission incorporates calibration and validation activities essential for the indirect calibration of the space sensor and the validation of data products. These calibration and validation activities are largely centered on the production of highly accurate in situ reference measurements relying on state of the art measurement methods and instrumentation. Since the start of the operational ocean colour missions in 1997, the JRC sustained the required calibration and validation activities by developing unique expertise and setting up specific measurement programs and infrastructures. This expertise, measurement programs and infrastructures, currently support the Copernicus ocean colour calibration and validation tasks through the delivery and exploitation of in situ reference data essential for the quality control of satellite data products. This Technical Report aims at providing: i. a general introduction to the ocean colour paradigm; ii. an extended synopsis of requirements and strategies for satellite ocean colour missions with a detailed focus on the JRC experimental activities carried out during the last decades; and finally iii. a discussion supporting the need for a sustained support of the JRC laboratory and field measurement programs assisting the production and exploitation of in situ reference data for the validation of Sentinel-3 ocean colour products. The Report, mostly through section 2, should naturally satisfy readers interested in appraising the specific JRC activities performed to support ocean colour calibration and validation. The same Report through sections 1 and 3, should also satisfy the need for more essential information supporting the need for sustaining the JRC ocean colour validation activities currently embedded in the Copernicus Earth Observation program of major relevance for global marine and climate investigations.

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Ocean color calibration and validation [er] : the JRC contribution to Copernicus. European Commission. Joint Research Centre.

Publication

Luxembourg : Publications Office, 2020.

Summary

Copernicus Sentinel-3 missions, including the ongoing Sentinel-3A and -3B and the future Sentinel-3C and -3D, offer an unprecedented opportunity for long-term ocean colour observations to support global environmental and climate investigations. Nevertheless, any ocean colour mission incorporates calibration and validation activities essential for the indirect calibration of the space sensor and the validation of data products. These calibration and validation activities are largely centered on the production of highly accurate in situ reference measurements relying on state of the art measurement methods and instrumentation. Since the start of the operational ocean colour missions in 1997, the JRC sustained the required calibration and validation activities by developing unique expertise and setting up specific measurement programs and infrastructures. This expertise, measurement programs and infrastructures, currently support the Copernicus ocean colour calibration and validation tasks through the delivery and exploitation of in situ reference data essential for the quality control of satellite data products. This Technical Report aims at providing: i. a general introduction to the ocean colour paradigm; ii. an extended synopsis of requirements and strategies for satellite ocean colour missions with a detailed focus on the JRC experimental activities carried out during the last decades; and finally iii. a discussion supporting the need for a sustained support of the JRC laboratory and field measurement programs assisting the production and exploitation of in situ reference data for the validation of Sentinel-3 ocean colour products. The Report, mostly through section 2, should naturally satisfy readers interested in appraising the specific JRC activities performed to support ocean colour calibration and validation. The same Report through sections 1 and 3, should also satisfy the need for more essential information supporting the need for sustaining the JRC ocean colour validation activities currently embedded in the Copernicus Earth Observation program of major relevance for global marine and climate investigations.

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JRC statistical audit of the 2020 Global Attractiveness Index [er]. European Commission. Joint Research Centre.

Publication

Luxembourg : Publications Office, 2020.

Summary

Attractiveness is a crucial factor in the global scramble for talented people, investments and know-how. It is a prerequisite for competitiveness and it remains so also in the new challenging scenario depicted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The European House – Ambrosetti has developed the Global Attractiveness Index (GAI) to provide countries with a tool to measure and benchmark a country’s attractiveness as determining element of its ability to be competitive and grow. The GAI – now at this fifth edition - builds on four attributes of attractiveness - Openness, Innovation, Efficiency, and Endowment - which are captured by 21 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), then aggregated into a single summary measure of attractiveness. As in the previous editions, the GAI 2020 ranks 144 countries which cover approximately 93% of the world’s population and 99%of Gross Domestic Product (in US

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Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries [er] : 64th plenary report : written procedure (PLEN-20-02). European Commission. Joint Research Centre.

Publication

Luxembourg : Publications Office, 2020.

Summary

Commission Decision of 25 February 2016 setting up a Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries, C(2016) 1084, OJ C 74, 26.2.2016, p. 4–10. The Commission may consult the group on any matter relating to marine and fisheries biology, fishing gear technology, fisheries economics, fisheries governance, ecosystem effects of fisheries, aquaculture or similar disciplines. The Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries held its 64th plenary as a virtual meeting from 6 to 10 July 2020.

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JRC Ispra site environmental footprint (OEF) [er] : application of the Commission Recommendation 2013/179/EU and of the OEFSR Guidance v.6.3 - Reporting year 2015. European Commission. Joint Research Centre.

Publication

Luxembourg : Publications Office, 2020.

Summary

This report represents the summary of a work carried out over the last few years involving different Units of the Joint Research Centre and a team of external consultants and reviewers. The OEF method (Organisation Environmental Footprint), together with the PEF method (Product Environmental Footprint), was developed by the JRC Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Team (now in the Land Resources Unit, D3). Both methods were published in annex to the Commission Recommendation 2013/179/EU of 9 April 2013 on the use of common methods to measure and communicate the life cycle environmental performance of products and organisations. The JRC Ispra is the 3rd largest site of the European Commission. The site is a combination of scientific activities and a broad set of supporting operations, ranging from power generation to water supply and wastewater treatment up to nuclear decommissioning. The site applies EMAS (the EU Environmental Management and Audit Scheme) to continuously improve its environmental performance and communicate it to the public. The application of the OEF, started in 2012 and reiterated over time, was a natural process and turned out to be quite beneficial for both tools. EMAS, in fact, has been getting complementary life cycle based information from the OEF while the latter has been gaining hands-on experience from EMAS in view of testing and possibly improving its methodological foundations. The JRC is therefore a unique field of play, a sort of “living-lab” where research and administration cooperate in a “win-win” perspective. This third version of the OEF study was submitted to an external review panel of distinguished experts in the domain of environmental footprinting. We are happy to present the report to the external public and hope to encourage other organisations to follow our path towards sustainability.

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JRC Ispra site environmental footprint (OEF) : application of the Commission Recommendation 2013/179/EU and of the OEFSR Guidance v.6.3 - Reporting year 2015. European Commission. Joint Research Centre.

Publication

Luxembourg : Publications Office, 2020.

Summary

This report represents the summary of a work carried out over the last few years involving different Units of the Joint Research Centre and a team of external consultants and reviewers. The OEF method (Organisation Environmental Footprint), together with the PEF method (Product Environmental Footprint), was developed by the JRC Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Team (now in the Land Resources Unit, D3). Both methods were published in annex to the Commission Recommendation 2013/179/EU of 9 April 2013 on the use of common methods to measure and communicate the life cycle environmental performance of products and organisations. The JRC Ispra is the 3rd largest site of the European Commission. The site is a combination of scientific activities and a broad set of supporting operations, ranging from power generation to water supply and wastewater treatment up to nuclear decommissioning. The site applies EMAS (the EU Environmental Management and Audit Scheme) to continuously improve its environmental performance and communicate it to the public. The application of the OEF, started in 2012 and reiterated over time, was a natural process and turned out to be quite beneficial for both tools. EMAS, in fact, has been getting complementary life cycle based information from the OEF while the latter has been gaining hands-on experience from EMAS in view of testing and possibly improving its methodological foundations. The JRC is therefore a unique field of play, a sort of “living-lab” where research and administration cooperate in a “win-win” perspective. This third version of the OEF study was submitted to an external review panel of distinguished experts in the domain of environmental footprinting. We are happy to present the report to the external public and hope to encourage other organisations to follow our path towards sustainability.

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Artificial intelligence at the JRC [er] : survey results. European Commission. Joint Research Centre.

Publication	Luxembourg : Publications Office, 2019.
Summary	This report presents the results of a survey on Artificial Intelligence (AI) at JRC –run from the 18th of May to the 06th of June 6 2018. The questionnaire was completed by 108 respondents (74% men and 26% women) from 29 different Units. Almost 90% were JRC Contract Agents and Administrators.

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