An international workshop on European On-line Particle Mass Spectrometry (PMS) was held 29th-30th of November 2005 at the JRC in Ispra, Italy. The main aims of the Workshop were: 1) To get together all the European scientists involved in the field of PMS. 2) To review the latest scientific...

In this report we describe the advancements on the Bioma Framework developed during year 2017. Given that the Bioma platform is quite mature, its core was not recently changed. So that the majority of changes concerns the implementation of the models developed in the platform. Moreover, during...

The recent availability of time series of Sentinel-2 imagery represents a significant technological step in the use of Earth Observation (EO) data for forest cover monitoring. The 5 days revisiting time (S-2 A and S-2B satellites) and the 10m spatial resolution imply the need for much larger...

As it has already been documents in several reports, the Geospatial Risk and Resilience Assessment Platform (GRRASP) under development ad the JRC is a World Wide Web oriented architecture bringing together geospatial technologies and computational tools towards the objective of supporting the...

The concept of a quantum key distribution reference platform is defined and the background against which the requirements for such a platform have been identified is explained. Availability of products, forthcoming QKD networks, standards, and the character of the market are explained. The...

Personal wearable sensors have the potential to become the most powerful individual self‐surveillance technology available to citizens. These ubiquitous, networked devices currently offer a breadth of capabilities to sense, digitally enhance and upload data of fine granularity such as body and...

Crowdfunding is an alternative way of finance and exchange where those seeking funding and those looking to invest or donate can be matched. Creators and entrepreneurs can make use of online crowdfunding platforms to expand the pool of potential investors and donors, who contribute via the...

The Smart Specialisation (S3) Platform was established by the European Commission in 2011 to help European regions to define their R&I strategies based on the principle of smart specialisation. This principle suggests that each region can identify its strongest assets and R&I potential so that...

Demographic microsimulation is a computationally-intensive tool used by population scientists to model demographic processes, gain insights into life course transitions and make projections (Zagheni, 2015). In microsimulation models, the sequences of events that each simulated person,...

The management of disaster risks of different kinds (manmade, technological and natural) is regulated at European level by a number of policies covering various sectors (e.g. environmental, industrial, civil protection, security, health), scales (EU wide, regional, national) and operational...