TrainMiC® is a European programme for lifelong learning on how to interpret the metrological requirements in chemistry. It is operational across many parts of Europe via national teams. These teams use shareware pedagogic tools which have been harmonised at European level through the joint...

Derivative instruments attempt to protect a portfolio against failure events. Constant proportion portfolio insurance (CPPI) and constant proportion debt obligations (CPDO) strategies are recent innovations and have only been adopted in the credit market for the last couple of years. Since their...

The last two decades have seen a growing concern about rising inequality. In a recent book (2012), Economics Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz argues that rising income inequality is one of the main factors underlying the economic and financial crisis in the United States. Wilkinson and Pickett...

Security of gas supply is a crucial stake for the European countries. The ProGasNet simulator has been developed by the European Commission to study the vulnerability of the gas network to different threats. With the simulator the European gas network (or a portion of the network) can be...

In 2014, the European Commission Directorate-General Joint Research Centre, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (JRC-IRMM) organized on request of the Directorate-General Energy an interlaboratory comparison (EC ILC) exercise on 137Cs measurement in air filters; a similar exercise...

In 2014, the European Commission Directorate-General Joint Research Centre, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (JRC-IRMM) organized on request of the Directorate-General Energy an interlaboratory comparison (EC ILC) exercise on 137Cs measurement in air filters; a similar exercise...

The Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) aims to achieve Good Environmental Status (GES) of the EU's marine waters by 2020, and to protect the marine resources upon which economic and social activities depend. The progress achieved in marine modelling gives the possibility of more...

This report describes the full life cycle of an intercomparison among European laboratories monitoring radioactivity in the environment. Gravimetrically pipetting droplets of a gravimetrically diluted standardised 137Cs solution onto real air filters, SI-traceable reference values were...