Healthy soils are in good chemical, biological and physical condition so that they can provide ecosystem services. This technical report introduces the
This report documents the Environmental Master Tables (ENVMAT) framework, a comprehensive data integration system linking heterogeneous environmental datasets with microeconomic data from the Farm Accountancy Data Net...
Public procurement represents a significant share of economic activity within the European Union and currently serves as a central instrument for advancing strategic objectives, including digitalisation, industrial co...
This EPRS paper analyses how the European Commission is delivering on the policy agenda set by its President, Ursula von der Leyen, and her College of Commissioners since taking office in December 2024. It provides an...
The EU energy label, as provided for by Regulation (EU) 2017/1369, aims at promoting the uptake of more efficient energy-related products. It aims to help consumers make informed choices by facilitating comparisons of...
Europe funds health biotechnology to turn scientific discovery into the medicines, vaccines and therapies people depend on, and to keep its economy competitive. This report examines what that investment has delivered....
The Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety of the European Commission develops and implements the Commission’s policies on food safety and public health. Its Directorate for Health and Food Audits and Analys...
European seabed sediments constitute one of the planet's largest long-term carbon stores, but their contribution to climate mitigation remains incompletely quantified and is not yet fully incorporated into marine poli...
Despite the knowledge achieved so far in relation to the underpinning role of nature in our economy and society, evidence shows that we have been causing and even funding nature’s decline for centuries. IPBES assess...
The Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) provides greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions time series for all countries and for all anthropogenic sectors from 1970 until 2025, including emissions and remo...
This report adopts a qualitative and comparative approach to analysing living lab implementation across selected Green Deal Call projects. It is based on a combination of desk research and semi structured interviews w...
This study on the “Feasibility of a Union scheme obliging operators of private flights to collect and transfer air passenger data” examines the availability, use and limitations of travel information for law-enfor...
The video highlights the modelling, simulation, data and visualisation solutions developed by the EU-funded MERIDIONAL project to support more accurate assessment of wind energy systems. A final webinar on 30 Septembe...
Construction remains Europe's deadliest sector, despite decades of regulation. A newgeneration of interconnected sensors, autonomous machinery and digital platforms cancommunicate and respond collectively to risks...
A representative of the EU-funded BuildOn project explains how IoT sensing and smart controls are turning two very different commercial buildings in Greece into digitalised, data-driven environments.
Évora will host POCITYF's closing event, bringing together the project's lighthouse and fellow cities to share what comes next for historic cities on their path to climate neutrality
A long-standing challenge in Europe is improving the functioning of capital markets – including equity markets. Well-functioning capital markets are essential to unlocking the economy’s full potential and to mobil...
The project's ultimate goal is to demonstrate the potential of sEMG-driven, multimodal AI augmentation through validation in two demanding industrial pilots: high-precision pulley manufacturing and confined-space ...
This document provides a critical analysis of the main regulatory implications of the European Commission’s proposal to amend Directive 2010/53/EU (the Organ Directive), which governs the donation and transplantatio...
The report provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between human capital formation, labour markets and migration in Senegal, and identifies areas for cooperation on labour migration and training between ...
In 2020, DG ECHO (the Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid) published its commitment to reducing the environmental footprint of EU-funded humanitarian aid. This policy brief assesses ...
This report evaluates the economic contribution of the 2014-2022 European Union cohesion policy cycle using a counterfactual framework based on matrix completion and dynamic expenditure models. The central finding is ...
The review brings together the main peer-reviewed empirical evidence on the economic and regional aggregate impact of EU cohesion policy and ranks that evidence by identification credibility. The academic corpus conta...
The European Union (EU)’s Blue Economy represents a dynamic and multifaceted policy domain, encompassing traditional sectors such as fisheries, aquaculture, and the processing of fishery and aquaculture products, as...
Children’s development and learning are at the heart of high-quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) systems. At the national level, policymakers seek to influence the quality of educational processes taki...
“Investing in Education” is an annual report that the EU. It is composed of two parts: informs on developments in education investment in - Part 1 analyses the most recent indicators at EU and national levels and ...
Thefts in museums are generally regarded as a non-violent form of organised property crime. Perpetrators rely on deception and stealth, using tactics like reconnaissance and discreet execution. This approach was evide...
The evaluation assessed how efficiently and effectively the 2019 Regulation (which replaced the previous Regulation 764/2008) has functioned since its application (April 2020). The Regulation improved the free movemen...
The EU, US and China dominate global clean-technology investment, manufacturing and policy ambition. This study assesses the EU's competitive position across innovation, manufacturing and industrial deployment, and co...
Policy analysts working on conflict early warning, prevention, and crisis response increasingly rely on heterogeneous data sources. The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) already produces conflict for...
The EU policy for knowledge valorisation has been established through the Council Recommendation (EU) 2022/2415 on the Guiding Principles for Knowledge Valorisation. This guidance builds on that policy context and res...
This third KCEO Deep Dive examines how Earth Observation supports Compliance Assurance under EU environmental and sustainability law, identifies the gaps, and sets priorities for the evolution of Copernicus and EU res...
Cell and gene therapies (CGTs) represent a transformative frontier in biomedical innovation, offering the potential not only to treat but also to cure diseases that were once considered intractable. These therapies ha...
Have you ever wondered how the future might look following a certain event? While the future cannot be predicted, foresight with its different methods and approaches allows to explore possible future developments and ...
Discover Alkmaar’s Sun Powered Circuit, an interactive journey showing how renewable energy and circular renovation are integrated into everyday places across the historic Dutch city.
The position of the EU in world trade in 2025 in brief: • The EU is the world’s 2nd goods trader after China (15.0%) but before the USA (13.2%) with a share of around 13.5% in total world trade in goods (imports a...
We estimate the cyclical response of labour force participation to growth shocks across EU regions. We use a shift-share instrumental variable approach and local projections on EU Labour Force Survey microdata coverin...
Fishing is regulated by EU quotas and national legislation to ensure sustainability. Challenges include declining stocks, climate impacts, and economic pressures, while aquaculture (mainly rainbow trout in sea cages) ...
EFSA may obtain specialised operational support and expert advice from Operational Support Advisors (OSA) based on a fixed daily remuneration. The OSA scheme provides access to expertise in communication, digital, soc...
The Remunerated External Experts (REE) framework enables EFSA to access specialised expertise whenever scientific or operational support is required. Through two complementary schemes—ISA and OSA—external experts ...
Thefts in museums are generally regarded as a non-violent form of organised property crime. Perpetrators rely on deception and stealth, using tactics like reconnaissance and discreet execution. This approach was evide...
The Polycrisis Exploration Workshop’ facilitates strategic conversations about current and future risks, disasters, and polycrises. It is based on the foresight study ‘Risks on the horizon'. This guidance document...
This study supports an impact assessment focused on the EU market authorisation for products containing, consisting of or produced from genetically modified microorganisms (GMMs). The current regulatory framework for ...
The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission developed the EU Food System Monitoring Framework to monitor the environmental, economic, and social sustainability of the EU food system across the entire food chain.
This report maps the data sources and indicators available for measuring skills demand, supply and mismatch across the European Union. It assesses which of them can support regular monitoring by the European Skills In...
Cyberbullying is not “just online drama”. Cyberbullying is when someone uses digital technologies to repeatedly threaten, humiliate, exclude or hurt another person. Cyberbullying can happen to anyone, anywhere, bu...
The Security Research & Innovation Campus will bring together researchers and practitioners to turn innovative ideas into real solutions for a stronger and safer Europe. It is a key deliverable of ProtectEU, the Europ...
The European Innovation Council (EIC)1 is the European Union’s flagship programme for identifying, supporting, and scaling up breakthrough deep-tech innovation under Horizon Europe, with an overall budget of more th...
As EU rules require more recycled plastic, consumers still have no way of knowing whether a bottle really contains recycled material. Researchers are developing a blockchain-based traceability system to improve transp...
Papillon is a project set up by a social worker at SAAMO, a non-profit social welfare organisation, in 2018 with the goal of addressing energy poverty in Flanders. The project combines concepts of circular economy and...
In response to growing concerns about transparency and accountability in political advertising, the European Commission is advancing the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2024/900 of the European Parliament and of the...
This paper examines how monetary policy announcements affect firms’ employment expectations. Using German survey data, we combine high-frequency monetary policy surprises with survey response dates to identify the i...
The key findings of the survey on the use of cash by companies in the euro area can be summarised as follows: In 2026, 92% of companies that sell their goods and services in physical locations reported that they accep...
Local state capture is best understood as a systemic distortion of subnational governance, emerging at the intersection of concentrated political power, manipulated allocation of public resources, and weakened oversig...
This study examines how the 22 coastal EU Member States allocate fishing opportunities under Article 17 of the Common Fisheries Policy Regulation. Compiling and analysing 237 examples of criteria use, the study shows ...
A fair, green and just Europe invests in the well‑being of all its citizens while safeguarding planetary health. An inclusive and future‑oriented education system that equips learners with the competences, values ...
A steady supply of critical raw materials is essential for the European Union’s competitiveness, strategic autonomy, and climate, energy, digital and defence goals. The Critical Raw Materials Act lays out targets fo...
This workshop was organised by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Justice, Civil Liberties and Institutional Affairs at the request of the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI). It examined the application ...
The European Union’s annual Rule of Law Report is an important instrument in the EU’s ‘toolbox’ for safeguarding the rule of law. During stakeholder consultations for the report, civil society organisations (C...
This report provides a compact guide, implementation-oriented introduction to the Flexibility Needs Assessment (FNA) methodology approved by the European Union (EU) Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACE...
Brupower is an energy cooperative launched in 2022 in Brussels with the aim of being a local producer of energy from renewable sources and supporting an equitable energy transition in the region. Its principal activit...
The European energy transition is entering a decisive phase, marked by the rapid spread of renewable energy sources, electrification of end uses, decentralisation of generation and increasing system stress driven by c...
Extreme space weather (SWE) is a high impact, low frequency (HILF) natural hazard capable of disrupting technological societies at continental and global scale. Events of such magnitude are rare, with the last extreme...
The purpose of this report is to explore how Quantum Technologies are represented across mainstream and information manipulation sources published between 1 December 2024 and 27 April 2026 in the EU, the US, Russia, a...
The introduction and spread of invasive alien species (IAS) have become a significant concern worldwide, disrupting environmental balance, economic stability, and human health across various activity domains. Effectiv...
Harmonised Risk Indicator-1 (HRI-1), a key tool for monitoring progress in reducing pesticide risks under the Sustainable Use of Pesticides Directive, has been subject to scrutiny for its limitations. Specifically, it...
This report reviews and provides recommendations on the energy efficiency framework of the IMO. It finds that it is challenging to apply a regression basis to regulate shipping operation. E ratings can result because ...
This press release announces the establishment of AGenSE, the Alliance for Generative Software Engineering, by four Horizon Europe projects working on trustworthy generative AI for software engineering.
The environmental protection expenditure accounts measure the economic resources devoted to all activities undertaken to preserve and protect the environment. This information may be used to understand society’s res...
The purpose of the current Guide for Return Operations by Air coordinated or organised by Frontex (hereinafter: “the Guide”) is to provide operational guidelines in order to standardise procedures and to simplify ...
Nature-Based Solutions represent not only an environmental opportunity, but also a strategic investment in the future of European cities.The NBSINFRA Best Practices Book combines practical experience from diverse ur...
Issues with consumers’ ownership in the digital age arise in many different scenarios. One important scenario is where consumers ‘buy’ standalone digital content, such as software, e-books, videos, games or in-g...
The climate crisis is an urgent, human-driven systemic challenge whose impacts are unfolding through increasingly frequent and severe extreme events. Although the 2015 Paris Agreement advanced global climate governanc...
Land degradation refers to the long-term decline in the quality and productivity of land resources due to various factors, including human activities and natural. The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertificatio...
This study conducts a counterfactual impact evaluation of the European Union's Cohesion Policy for the 2014–2020 programming period, focusing on its effects on enterprises and business start-ups at the NUTS-2 region...
Labour markets in the European Union (EU) have seen a marked rise in non-standard employment over the past two decades. While such arrangements can offer greater flexibility and better work–life balance, workers can...
Serbia has strengthened its climate policy framework through the adoption of the National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP), the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) and the updated Nationally Determined Contribution (...
This report examines psychosocial risks (PSRs) in the workplace and work-related mental and physical health outcomes in the education sector. The results combine a scoping literature review and interviews with key sta...
The EU market for fishery and aquaculture products experienced an overall decline in consumption over the 2014–2023 period, with both total and per capita consumption reaching their lowest levels in 2023 (10,25 mill...
The green transition is profoundly reshaping our society and economy with far-reaching implications for technology, production, services, consumption, and investment. For Europe to remain competitive in a low-carbon e...
This paper analyses how Russia’s hybrid interference targets European Union (EU) enlargement countries and how the EU responds, particularly with regard to its enlargement policy. It develops a precise, strategy‑c...
In November 1953, a small group gathered at the Pavillon Henri IV near Paris to translate a post-war cultural vision into an institutional proposal. From that meeting-and from the formal signing of its statutes in G...
This report was commissioned to evaluate the implementation of energy community (EC) regulations and their role in shaping energy transition across EU Member States. It assesses how Member States support the developme...
Wood is a highly versatile material that can be sustainably used and reused in cascade across multiple processes, ranging from wood-based manufacturing to energy production plants. However, the available data on sourc...
This paper explores the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies among euro area firms, using harmonised firm-level data from two dedicated modules of the Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises (S...
Using sunscreen to protect your skin from the sun helps to prevent skin ageing and cancer. Before sunscreens can be sold in the EU, they need to be tested. Testing on humans (in vivo), in a laboratory (in vitro), or a...
The Digital Decade Policy Programme (DDPP), adopted in 2022, established a common governance and monitoring framework to guide the European Union’s digital transformation towards 2030. Since its adoption, however, t...
The overarching goal of the Coordinated Activities on the Safety of Products (CASP) project is to protect the health and safety of European consumers by supporting market surveillance authorities (MSAs) from EU/EFTA c...
The report describes the outcome of a Commission project looking at Member States’ approach to “food safety culture (FSC)” official controls. In alignment with international standards, FSC requirements have been...
Drawing on research from Iceland, Italy, Switzerland, the UK, Spain, Germany and Lithuania, the briefs show how public engagement and co-creation can make early warning systems more trusted and inclusive, and set out ...