The European Commission (EC) Joint Research Centre (JRC), in the frame of a scientific and technical support activity with the Satellite Navigation Unit of the EC Directorate General Defence Industry and Space (DEFIS) and the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA), has agreed to...

The European Commission (EC) Joint Research Centre (JRC), in the frame of a scientific and technical support activity with the Satellite Navigation Unit of the EC Directorate General Defence Industry and Space (DEFIS) and the European GNSS Agency (GSA), has agreed to facilitate testing and...

This JRC Technical Report provides technical background on the work done for the derivation of the "Galileo Reference Antenna Pattern (GRAP)" model which is proposed to be adopted as the reference model by the Galileo Programme. The GRAP here described is a model representing the Galileo Full...

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) pose a significant safety and security threat when entering restricted airspace near critical infrastructure sites without authorization. In response, the European Union (EU) has prioritized policy actions to ensure the safe operation of Counter-Unmanned Aerial...

Both the Arctic and Space are important policy topics for the EU, with recently defined strategies and programs. The European Commission's Joint Research Centre has recently completed a study upon the request of the Directorate Defense Industry and Space (DEFIS) aiming at identifying the...

This report looks at the innovative output of world's top Research and Development (R&D) investors using patents and trademarks as proxy indicators. Essentially descriptive in nature, the study presents statistics about the patent portfolio of companies, and their trademark strategies to launch...

The NMC Horizon Project from the New Media Consortium is a long-term investigation launched in 2002 that identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have a large impact over the coming five years in education around the globe. The NMC Horizon Report Europe: 2014 Schools Edition, the...

The climate targets of the European Union (EU) are defined in relation to historical benchmarks: for instance, the European Climate Law requires net domestic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to be reduced by at least 55% by 2030 compared to 1990. However, for aviation and maritime transport,...

Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) integrates economic and environmental data to understand the connections between economic and environmental resources. The European Union (EU) has shown strong policy support for NCA, amending Regulation 691/2011 to include ecosystem accounts (EA) as a mandatory...

More than 10.5% of the population of the European Union (EU) struggled with inadequate home heating in 2023. This is a worrying escalation on previous years (+3.7 percentage points since 2021), with some countries reaching as high as 20%. At the same time 3% of EU citizens were affected by...