The BiDS conference series is co-organised by the European Space Agency (ESA), the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, and the European Union Satellite Centre (SatCen). BiDS'21 emphasises not only on the insights that can be retrieved from Big Data from Space but also on the...

Modern economies produce massive datasets that need to be analysed using new modelling techniques like those from data science. The exploration of such huge and real-time amount of information generates new insights that are potentially useful for policymakers when designing policy...

Much of the world's data is textual - in large document archives, in scientific papers, in scattered websites, in social media. The information contained in text is invaluable and yet hard to access. The sheer volume of text means that, unassisted, we cannot hope to read all available sources,...

This report presents the results of an Interlaboratory Comparison (ILC) which focused on the determination of total Cd, Pb and As and extractable Cd and Pb in feed according to Directive 2002/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on undesirable substances in animal feed. The test...

Ten years ago, when the Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan was launched, the energy transition was in the making but still looked distant. While the challenge of successfully transforming our energy system still lies ahead of us, few would deny that the chances of success seem today much...

This report presents some preliminary calculations for the simulation of rat, monkey and human head behaviour (in particular of the brain) under imposed deceleration conditions by the EUROPLEXUS code. EUROPLEXUS (also abbreviated as EPX) is a computer code jointly developed by the French...