Transcript The EU Commission Joint Research Centre Overview and activities

The EU Commission Joint Research Centre
Overview and activities
Brussels, 12 November 2013
Jocelyne Gaudin
Head of Unit
Scientific support to Innovation Union, Foresight and International Relations
[email protected]
Science and the
role of the JRC
EC President Barroso:
“… acting as a bridge between policy making, science, society and economy is an
invaluable asset of the JRC, given its outreach to so many bodies and organisations
inside and outside Europe."
EC Commissioner Geoghegan-Quinn:
“The JRC… delivers scientific excellence, sound advice and key anticipation
services…"
JRC Director General Dominique Ristori: the JRC is the European
Commission's in-house science service, providing EU policies
with independent, evidence-based scientific and technical support
throughout the whole policy cycle.
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JRC at a glance
• IRMM – Institute for Reference Materials and
Measurements - Geel, Belgium
• ITU –Institute for Transuranium Elements Karlsruhe, Germany, and Ispra, Italy
• IET – Institute for Energy and Transport
Petten, The Netherlands, and Ispra, Italy
• IPSC – Institute for the Protection and Security
of the Citizen - Ispra, Italy
• IES –Institute for Environment and
Sustainability - Ispra, Italy
• IHCP – Institute for Health and Consumer
Protection - Ispra, Italy
• IPTS – Institute for Prospective Technological
Studies - Sevilla, Spain
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JRC key policy areas
• Financial stability and economic growth
• Environment and climate change
• Energy and transport
• Agriculture and food security
• Health and consumer protection
• Information society and digital agenda
• Safety and security (including nuclear)
supported through a cross-cutting
and multi-disciplinary approach
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JRC Key policy
mandates
• Strengthen the evidence base of EU Policy in
particular:
• To deepen the integration of JRC scientific advice into
policy making in the EU
• To provide policy analysis, facts and figures, foresight
and modelling capabilities
Examples of JRC activities:
Supporting EU Policies
Ad-hoc policy support
Science for the financial sector
The JRC develops scientific models for the financial sector to reduce the
probability of systematic crisis. The EC legislative proposal for minimum
capital requirements in the banking sector (known as Basel III) and the EC
legislative proposal on financial transactions were thoroughly tested
using “SYMBOL”, a scientific model developed by the JRC.
Policy anticipation
TEFIS: Techno-economic Foresight for the Information Society
The JRC supports Information Society Technology policies by generating
prospective analyses and strategies related to the knowledge society. TEFIS is
one such example where emerging trends in Information Society Technologies
up to a 15-year time period will be studied, using integrated techno-economic
foresight analyses leading to strategic priority-setting.
JRC Key policy
mandates
• Network with a wide range of customers and
stakeholders, in particular Universities:
• Between 2008-2013
• 3400 collaboration with 399 universities, among which 405
with 60 UK universities
• co-writing scientific articles: some 1600 peer-reviewed
articles authored in cooperation with JRC scientists
JRC Key policy
mandates
• Contribute to the implementation of Horizon 2020
• As an integral part of Horizon 2020, the Joint Research
Centre (JRC) should continue to provide independent
customer-driven scientific and technical support for the
formulation, development, implementation and monitoring of
Union policies. (…)
• In carrying out the direct actions in accordance with its
mission, the Joint Research Centre should place particular
emphasis on areas of key concern for the Union, namely
smart, inclusive and sustainable growth, security and
citizenship and Global Europe.
• The Joint Research Centre should continue to generate
additional resources through competitive activities, including
participation to the indirect actions of Horizon 2020,
third party work and, to a lesser extent, the exploitation of
intellectual property.
JRC involvement in
Horizon 2020
• Industrial leadership:
• Contribute to the strategic orientation and
science agenda of H2020 instruments (eg EIP,
PPPs)
• Support knowledge and technology transfer:
definition of appropriate IPR frameworks
• Promote technology transfer(TTO circle, Science
parks)
• Contribute to standardisation processes, in
particular to tackle the societal challenges.
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JRC involvement in
Horizon 2020
• Health, demographic change and wellbeing
• assess risks and opportunities of new
technologies and chemicals
• develop and validate harmonised measurement,
identify methods, integrated testing strategies for
toxicological hazard assessment.
• Develop quality assurance of health testing and
screening practices
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JRC involvement in
Horizon 2020
• Food security, sustainable agriculture,
marine and maritime research and the bioeconomy
• Establish a global system and tools for crop
forecasting and monitoring of crop productivity;
Model scenarios for decision-making in
agricultural policies and analyses of policy impact
at macro/regional/micro levels
• Further develop methods for fisheries control and
enforcement and traceability of fish and fish
products
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JRC involvement in
Horizon 2020
• Secure, clean and efficient energy
• Mapping indigenous primary and external energy
sources and infrastructures
• Energy/electricity transmission networks, in
particular modelling and simulation of transEuropean energy networks,
• Analysis of smart/super grid technologies
• Methodologies for monitoring and assessing the
achievements of energy efficiency policy
instruments,
• Safety of nuclear energy (under the Euratom
programme)
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JRC involvement in
Horizon 2020
• Smart, green and integrated transport
• Commission internal clearing house for collecting
and disseminating information for an integrated
transport system.
• Definition of harmonised test procedures and
assessment of innovative technologies in terms of
emissions
• Improved methodologies for emission
measurements and environmental pressures
calculations
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JRC involvement in
Horizon 2020
• Climate action, resource efficiency and raw
materials
• Measuring and monitoring key environmental
variables and assessing the state and change of
natural resources by further developing indicators
• Developing an integrated modelling framework
for sustainability assessment based on thematic
models such as soil, land use, water, air quality,
greenhouse gas emissions, forestry, agriculture,
energy and transport, also addressing effects of
and responses to climate change.
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Joint Research Centre (JRC) – HQ Brussels
Thank you!
Web: www.jrc.ec.europa.eu
Contact: [email protected]
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