This Outlook report, prepared by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), examines the transformative role of Generative AI (GenAI) with a specific emphasis on the European Union. It highlights the potential of GenAI for innovation, productivity, and societal change. GenAI is a...

This Outlook report, prepared by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), examines the transformative role of Generative AI (GenAI) with a specific emphasis on the European Union. It highlights the potential of GenAI for innovation, productivity, and societal change. GenAI is a...

This report documents the process and findings of a horizon scanning exercise, part of a series under the FUTURINNOV (FUTURe-oriented detection and assessment of emerging technologies and break-through INNOVation) project, a collaboration between the European Innovation Council (EIC) and the...

This report documents the process and findings of a horizon scanning exercise, part of a series under the FUTURINNOV (FUTURe-oriented detection and assessment of emerging technologies and break-through INNOVation) project, a collaboration between the European Innovation Council (EIC) and the...

Cyber attacks on healthcare settings increase in frequency and magnitude. They cause significant damage to infrastructures, compromising both continuity and quality of services. Accordingly, policy makers recognise cyber attacks as a growing public health problem (e.g. von der Leyen, 2024). Its...

The health and medicine sector are increasingly digitized, a trend that will accelerate with more widespread adoption of artificial intelligence, wearables and internet of things-based healthcare. Yet, this digital transformation carries notable cybersecurity threats. While there is ample...

A decade of rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) has resulted in a large diversity of practical applications across different sectors. Data play a fundamental role in AI systems, which can be seen as adaptive data processing algorithms that adjust outputs to input training data....

Use of globally harmonised nomenclature for adverse event reporting of medical devices is a key prerequisite for effective safety monitoring of devices in the interest of patient protection. This report analyses the results of an EU pilot project on nomenclature use and makes recommendations.

Use of globally harmonised nomenclature for adverse event reporting of medical devices is a key prerequisite for effective safety monitoring of devices in the interest of patient protection. This report analyses the results of an EU pilot project on nomenclature use and makes recommendations.

The EURL ECVAM status report provides an update on the progress made in the development, validation and regulatory acceptance of alternative methods and approaches and their dissemination since the last report published in June 2014. It is informing on ongoing research and development...