Past Events

Live web streaming of the First Smarter Conference

 

This not-for-profit Conference aims at putting Energy Storage – in all its facets – on the map and at fostering discussion and networking with stakeholders from the entire energy value chain.

Piotr Szymanski, Director of JRC Directorate C, will be opening the 1st day.  Stathis Peteves, Unit head of C7 and Andreas Zucker will be speakers on Day 1.

Dominique Ristori, Director General of DG ENER, will be delivering a key note speech on the 2nd day and Maroš Šefčovič, Vice-President in charge of the Energy Union, the keynote speech of the 3rd day.

The JRC is organising a workshop on the use of microsimulation modelling for fiscal policy analysis in Seville. The aim of the workshop is to gather policy makers and leading economists from the US and Europe who will provide examples of how microsimulation models are used for fiscal policy analysis in their institutions. Speakers will explain whether the models are open-source and made available to the research community.

During the event a Research Framework Arrangement (RFA) will be signed, followed by a series of thematic sessions on smart specialisation, agriculture and food security and disaster risk management.

The United States and the European Union (EU) are seeking to accelerate the transition to low-carbon energy systems, including power generation from variable solar and wind technologies.

Following the signing of a collaboration arrangement between the JRC and the US Department of Energy earlier this year, a workshop is being organised at the JRC's facilities in Ispra on 28-29 September 2016.

The 2016 annual meeting of the JRC's community of practice on Big Data will focus on Big Data for Science and Policy.

The two-day event will explore the opportunities that Big Data provides for science and policy making and identify have it can be used to improve science-based policy support.

NER 300 is one of the world’s largest funding programmes for highly innovative low-carbon energy demonstration projects, although it is not funded by the EU budget but by resources coming from the EU Emission Trading Scheme (ETS). The programme is conceived as a catalyst for the demonstration of environmentally safe carbon capture and storage (CCS) and innovative renewable energy (RES) technologies on a commercial scale within the European Union. The programme (about EUR 2.1 billion) funds 38 projects in 19 EU countries.

Plutonium Futures - The Science series of conferences provides an international forum for discussion of current research on physical and chemical properties of plutonium and other actinide elements in complex systems. The scientific sessions will be held at the Kongresshaus Baden-Baden, from September 18th to 22nd, 2016.

The training (26-28 September 2016) will offer the lessons learnt from the JRC assessments on more than 100 well-known composite indicators and scoreboards.

On the 15th of September, Dr. Rob Hagendijk will visit JRC Ispra to present a seminar entitled “Rare diseases as a real time policy laboratory: Citizen engagement and public health”, as part of the “contro-corrente” series of seminars.

Date: 15th September 14.30-16.00 Ispra, ROOM 101/1302