Binding targets for governments and an overhaul of the spatial planning process are key to Europe’s mission to restore its degraded ecosystems. The EU stresses the value of biodiversity and claims that every euro in...
As European cities face increasing threats from natural and human-made disasters, the EU-funded RETIME project is working to enhance urban resilience through innovative solutions. A newly released video illustrates th...
Food policy project – CLEVERFOOD – has produced a factsheet with insights and practical tips for promoting plant-based policies. The factsheet draws on the lessons learned in Denmark where effective strategies hav...
This report examines the EU efforts to combat harmful tax regimes and corporate tax avoidance, which can lead to significant tax losses for member states and distortions in the internal market. Within its limited comp...
On January 22-23, 2025, the EU-funded project ATENA+ held the kick-off meeting at the Saft facilities in Bordeaux, France. This event marked the official start of a four-year initiative to revolutionise energy storage...
Food sustainability is becoming an increasingly central topic in our daily lives. But how can we integrate it effectively into education, awareness-raising, and practical activities?
The DEDALUS project places citizens at the core of sustainable energy management, empowering them to take control of their consumption through advanced technology and a user-centered approach. This synergy between peo...
For over two decades, Greece’s external position has been characterised by current account deficits and negative net foreign assets. The Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP), supported by the EU’s Recovery and Resil...
The “Technical Assistance to Generate Synergies with Members States and Regions” started at the beginning of 2023 to support the Clean Hydrogen (Clean H2) Partnership to identify National and Regional Managing Aut...
The ‘Science, Research and Innovation Performance of the EU, 2024’ (SRIP) report offers a comprehensive and detailed overview of how Europe is performing today in terms of science, research and innovation and anal...
This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the AFCO Committee, assesses the status of political strikes in the EU. Whi...
Big Tech wield unprecedented influence on production and consumption relations. Europe faces a number of epoch-making questions. Will the regulatory frameworks deliver? Should Big Tech be broken up or standards relaxe...
In 2022 and 2023, the European Commission’s Knowledge Centre for Bioeconomy organised three workshops to explore bioeconomy foresight scenarios developed in 2020. With the help of a scientific game and foresight too...
With this fact sheet we will guide you through the essential actions to secure your trademark rights after registration. Whether you are an emerging startup or an established business, protecting your brand is not jus...
From solar panels on the roof to better insulation in our walls, how we generate and conserve energy in our homes is key to being more sustainable as a society. What would you need to use energy more efficiently and s...
The Industry Roundtable, hosted by eu-LISA in Budapest, marked a decade of fostering collaboration between EU institutions, Member States, and the private sector. This year’s hybrid event spotlighted the transformat...
This factsheet provides an overview of the European Universities alliance, including on its partners, focus areas, vision and activities undertaken. It relates to the pioneering new learning opportunities across borde...
This factsheet provides an overview of the European Universities alliance, including on its partners, focus areas, vision and activities undertaken. It relates to the pioneering new learning opportunities across borde...
This factsheet provides an overview of the European Universities alliance, including on its partners, focus areas, vision and activities undertaken. It relates to the pioneering new learning opportunities across borde...
This factsheet provides an overview of the European Universities alliance, including on its partners, focus areas, vision and activities undertaken. It relates to the pioneering new learning opportunities across borde...
This case study focuses on European sprat (Sprattus sprattus) for human consumption in Poland, Denmark and Sweden, which are the 3 main sprat producers in the EU in terms of catches and landings and have distinctive p...
Hedonic games and blockchain are transforming decentralised energy systems, as shown by researchers at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, who developed a model optimising P2P trading through social integration a...
The policy brief focuses on three observations made during the first year of the SUPPORTER project at three different dimensions interlinked by the SUPPORTER context: institutionaldimension, sports education-dimension...
This deliverable outlines the development and implementation of institutional roadmaps within the SUPPORTER project, strategically designed to advance gender equality in sports higher education and culminate in the de...
This deliverable outlines the capacity building scheme of the SUPPORTER project, a dynamic and comprehensive program strategically designed to equip Implementing Organisations (IOs) within sports institutions in Centr...
This deliverable is a mapping of existing training materials and tools within the frame of EC-funded projects implementing systemic institutional transformation towards gender equality, with a specific focus on traini...
The deliverable reviews the relevant state-of-the-art, including the theoretical background on gender+ equality and gender-based violence, and maps gender equality plans (GEPs) and their implementation in sports educa...
Addressing complex challenges requires different tools, mindsets and approaches from those traditionally used, which contributed to create some of these challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, raising in...
Debate as well as action are key to solving the climate crisis. We need people across Europe to be able to interact and express their ideas, opinions and concerns about climate change, so that we can learn from each o...
Undertaking climate action and implementing robust climate risk management in the defence sector has become indispensable. Climate change poses significant risks to the defence workforce, both military and civilian. I...
This paper measures the efficiency of public spending in the education and health sectors using Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). It covers all EU Member States from 2000 to 2022....
The TE-SAT 2024 is a situational overview, presenting figures, major developments and trends in the terrorism landscape in the EU in 2023, based on qualitative and quantitative data provided by Member States on terror...
This case study highlights the importance and best practices of youth participation in Europe’s transition to a sustainable, climate-neutral economy by showcasing examples from the Just Transition Fund regions. Enga...
The US’s three main strategic adversaries – Russia, China and Iran – actively sought to influence the outcome of the 2024 election. They deployed a variety of interference tactics, including the misuse of AI, di...
Driven by changes in climate, land and water use and management, human population and consumption patterns, droughts worldwide are increasing in frequency, intensity, spatial extent and duration. The last decade has s...
The EIC Accelerator supports companies (principally start-ups and SMEs) to scale up high impact innovations with the potential to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
The European Charter for Access to Research Infrastructures sets out non-regulatory principles and guidelines to be used as a reference when defining Access policies for Research Infrastructures and related services. ...
The EU agreed to phase out fossil fuel subsidies (FFS). Nevertheless, FFS strongly increased in 2022 to address the effects of the energy price spikes reached during the energy crisis. Phasing out FFS is therefore als...
The VAT compliance gap measures the difference between the VAT revenue that would be collected in the case of full compliance and the actual revenue collected. The actionable VAT policy gap measures the VAT revenue fo...
A specific form of VAT non-compliance in the EU that warrants particular attention is missing trader fraud. This scheme involves a fraudulent trader supplying goods and services to other businesses, collecting the tax...
Global Atlantic salmon production reached 2,9 million tonnes in 2022, a 37% increase from 2013, with aquaculture dominating and wild catches accounting for less than 0,1%. Norway is the largest producer, contributing ...
The aim of this toolkit is to provide guidance to Just Transition Fund (JTF) regions which are considering using JTF funds towards Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) support schemes (henceforth, ‘schemes’) which co...
Energy communities promise to transform Europe’s energy system, but regulatory hurdles, interoperability issues and limited tools still stand in the way. How to help scale their impact and drive a democratic, renewa...
Our food choices shape the planet. From farms to our plates, sustainable eating impacts biodiversity, climate, and social justice. A travelling exhibition and a visionary farmer are working to transform the global foo...
The study highlights how AI, blockchain, and smart systems can enable buildings to actively support smart grids, overcoming regulatory and technical challenges for economic and environmental benefits.
The free movement of goods within the European Single market is a major achievement that has improved people’s lives across the EU. Keeping the market safe is the responsibility of all producers, distributors, retai...
Three years after the adoption of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), this report reviews the quality of the social partners’ involvement in 2023 in the ongoing implementation of reforms and investments fund...
The asylum procedure achieves its objectives and offers the necessary protection only when it is implemented in line with the applicable standards in every single case. This guide aims to support asylum administration...
During its 20 years of work ERA delivered important benefits for the rail sector’s safety and interoperability as well as for society at large. The Agency supported the European Commission on technical matters to de...
The overall objective of these operational standards and indicators is to support Member States in the implementation of key provisions of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS), addressing issues related to applica...
To support the Cancer Mission, a series of focus groups were organised with citizens in six EU Member States: Bulgaria, Czechia, Finland, France, Lithuania, and Malta. Focus groups addressed cancer awareness, preventi...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is developing fast and the benefits of adopting AI are widely recognized. AI applications can contribute to better public services, e.g. by improving citizen-government interaction, enabli...
This guide is structured in three standalone yet complementary and interlinked parts, which cover different topics relevant to SOGIESC in asylum. Cross-cutting elements provides information and guidance that are cross...
The TE-SAT 2024 is a situational overview, presenting figures, major developments and trends in the terrorism landscape in the EU in 2023, based on qualitative and quantitative data provided by Member States on terror...
The study represents the Commission’s commitment, outlined in its 2023 Communication on the functioning of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), to address emerging challenges in the sector. It aligns with the Commissi...
The pharmaceutical sector, one of Europe’s most energy-intensive industries, is under increasing pressure due to rising energy costs and the need for decarbonisation. A pilot project in the Italian Alps now promises...
With urban areas contributing 75% of global CO2 emissions, achieving climate neutrality demands collaboration beyond individual city limits. Differences and challenges remain significant, but from Dresden to Istanbul,...
Missions are a novelty of the EU research and innovation programme, Horizon Europe. They are a new way of bringing concrete solutions to some of our greatest challenges. Restoring and maintaining soil health is one of...
This large-scale study assesses the impact of human oversight on countering discrimination in AI aided decision-making for sensitive tasks. We use a mixed research method approach, in a sequential explanatory design w...
This report provides an overview of the state of play of resolution planning and crisis management in respect of the less significant institutions (LSIs) under the direct responsibility of the national resolution auth...
The Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) saw the first ever large-scale rollout of EU funding with no link to actual costs, which was expected to both deliver results and simplification. In this audit, we assessed t...
This study provides an overview of the impact of commodity traders on agricultural markets. It examines the ramifications of financialisation, explores prevailing trends, and confronts the challenges that characterise...
This workshop provides a first assessment of the programming of the EMFAF for the period 2021-27. It focuses on Article 17 on “First acquisition of a fishing vessel”, Article 18 on “Engine replacement or moderni...
From June 11 to 13, Venice will host the 2025 IEEE MetroLivEnv. DEDALUS and DigiBUILD are co-organizing a special session on high-quality data and digital services to enhance Demand Response in the built environment.
This publication was first conceived by the Laboratory Coordination Board at the Joint Research Centre’s Science Summit in June 2022. At this conference, discussions were held about the role of the JRC in the scienc...
Researchers at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca have developed a blockchain-based approach using evolutionary game theory to enhance cooperation, efficiency, and equity in transactive energy communities.
In this Report, we reflect on: » How to foster competitive and innovative AI markets while ensuring that AI applications are safe and aligned with individual rights and social values? » What interventions would be m...
This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the AFCO Committee, assesses the status of political strikes in the EU. Whi...
Big Tech wield unprecedented influence on production and consumption relations. Europe faces a number of epoch-making questions. Will the regulatory frameworks deliver? Should Big Tech be broken up or standards relaxe...
In 2022 and 2023, the European Commission’s Knowledge Centre for Bioeconomy organised three workshops to explore bioeconomy foresight scenarios developed in 2020. With the help of a scientific game and foresight too...
This Brief analyses the EU warning system’s contribution to conflict prevention and discusses ways to strengthen it. The first section examines the factors that contribute to the success of the system. The second se...