The Joint Research Centre (JRC) organised a workshop in Tenerife Island in 2017 called 'Resilient Tenerife', intended to explore participatory strategies to enhance climate resilience. An environmental expert from the Island Council of Gran Canaria was a member of one of the round tables and...

Severe droughts are currently affecting most of the Amazon and the La Plata basins and other regions in South America with extremely dry and warm conditions. - Heatwaves and warm spells are exacerbating the impacts of the lack of precipitation. The average temperature is abnormally higher than...

This rough guide explores the role of public libraries in citizen engagement processes and, more generally, in the making and nurturing of democratic societies. Citizen engagement generally refers to invited forms of citizen involvement in policymaking and decision-making initiated by public...

The JRC Makers-in-Residence programme is a short-term research-focused residency for makers, launched at the Joint Research Centre's Makerspace. It is centred on specific concepts and themes directly tied to the science and technology policy topics considered in the JRC Annual Work Programme....

In recent years, droughts have had substantial impacts on nearly all regions of the EU, affecting several critical systems such as agriculture, water supply, energy, river transportation, and ecosystems. These impacts are projected to further increase due to climate change. While some of 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...