The Joint Research Centre (JRC) participates in the 2018 European Week of Regions and Cities (EWRC).
At this four-day event, cities and regions showcase the importance of the local and regional level for good European governance.
The EWRC has grown into the key event on EU regional and cohesion policy.
The Commission launched in June 2017 the European Defence Fund to direct EU funds in support of collaborative defence research and capability development with the Member States. For the very first time, EU funds are being mobilised to support the whole life-cycle of defence product development.
Why do people migrate?
International migration will continue to be a significant topic for European and global policymaking.
Quantitative assessment presents factors that are the most important drivers of migration flows around the world.
This research could inform policies that help Europe to prepare effectively and to put international initiatives like the upcoming Global Compact for Migration into practice.
You can register for this event or watch it live on 27 September, from 12:30 CET.
"Counterfactual Methods for Policy Impact Evaluation 2018" (COMPIE 2018)
The European Commission, in collaboration with the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, is organising the Counterfactual Methods for Policy Impact Evaluation 2018 (COMPIE 2018) conference.
The European Network of Cancer Registries Scientific Meeting and General Assembly provides the opportunity for all European cancer registries to have a face-to-face meeting.
The purpose of the event is for the registries to share research findings, discuss cancer registration issues, exchange ideas and best practices, network, present epidemiological work based on cancer registry data and finally meet their representatives, the ENCR Steering Committee.
The 2018 Smarter Conference will offer a comprehensive picture of the smart specialisation policy experience, including an evaluation of its early results, and will highlight recent developments both conceptually and empirically. Attention will be given to implementation challenges and ways to address them, as well as to methodologies for impact assessment. In addition, the conference will explore how smart specialisation engages with global value chains and production networks, and how firms, regions and cities can benefit from relationships across the borders.
This workshop will showcase the main developments of various non-EU countries in the Americas, Asia, Oceania and Africa in the implementation and/or adaptation of Smart Specialisation approach.
Sustaining the Blue Economy and Food Security: The JRC engages with the scientific community to pave the way towards an ecosystem approach to marine aquaculture.
The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) Annual Science Conference 2018 will take place from the 24-27 September 2018 in Hamburg, Germany.
The EU PVSEC is the largest international Conference for Photovoltaic research, technologies and applications, and at the same time a top international PV Industry Exhibitions. It gathers the global PV community to conduct business, to network and to present and discuss the latest developments and innovations in Photovoltaics. It is the world renowned science-to-science, business-to-business and science-to-industry platform with a full and only focus on the global PV Solar sector.
