The work described in this report aims at contributing to interdisciplinarity and policy-anticipation capacity in the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. The authors propose, pilot and document a novel approach to explore and visualise interlinkages within (and potentially...

Learning lessons from accidents is a fundamental principle in preventing technological accidents and mitigating their effects. In 1982, recognising the paramount importance of this principle, the first EU Seveso Directive created a mechanism for sharing of lessons learned from chemical accidents...

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...

The recently adopted Electricity Market Design (EMD) reform includes provisions for the creation of Flexibility Needs Assessments (FNAs) on the national and European level. The reform sets a focus on advancing decarbonization while maintaining a high level of supply security. The FNAs should...

This report presents the outcome from the JRC NUCLEAR FORESIGHT WORKSHOP on Shaping the Future for Nuclear Safety, Security and Safeguards - Factors, Forces and Challenges that was conducted on 24th November 2023 at the JRC-Karlsruhe in conjunction with "60 Years of JRC Nuclear Safety and...

The Farm to Fork Strategy has recognised the necessity of intensifying efforts to combat fraudulent practices within the agri-food chain while simultaneously enhancing traceability and alert systems to improve coordination in addressing food fraud. A substantial volume of food chain data is...