A Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) is a comprehensive and economy-wide database recording data about all transactions between economic agents in a certain economy during a certain period of time. SAMs have a triple use: on the one hand, they offer in themselves a detailed description of the...

Soil is specified as the top layer of the Earth's crust, formed by mineral particles, organic matter, water, air and living organisms. It is the interface between earth, air and water, and hosts most of the biosphere (European Commission, 2006). Soils must be understood as the base for life and...

"DG AGRI-JRC - Production, trade and apparent use" combines data from COMEXT and DG AGRI's short-term outlook for EU agricultural markets, providing historic data on production at Member State level based on Eurostat. Since information on stocks and the various uses of products are not available...

The Covenant of Mayors (CoM) Community offers countless possibilities for peer learning and exchange on key opportunities and challenges in local energy and climate action planning. Since the start of the CoM initiative, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission (EC) has not...

In the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, great attention is paid to migration and to 'planned and well-managed migration policies' (SDG 10.7). To compare policies across time and space, indexes can be devised measuring and aggregating relevant indicators of these...

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...

The Covenant of Mayors (CoM) Community offers countless possibilities for peer learning and exchange on key opportunities and challenges in local energy and climate action planning. Since the start of the CoM initiative, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission (EC) has not...

Test beds and research infrastructures are platforms that generate and share knowledge to address megatrends and support research and innovation (R&I) efforts to increase the European Union's (EU) competitiveness. A well-developed ecosystem for transforming knowledge into products and services...

In the context of the institutional support to DG FISMA, JRC.B1 contributed to the Commission Staff Working Document on the Movement of Capital and the Freedom of Payments. JRC.B1 contribution included: (i) the analysis of home bias (tendency to invest in domestic financial assets); (ii) the...