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October 2021

Joint Research Centre (JRC) - Newsletter

The European Commission's science and knowledge service

Your monthly update from the Joint Research Centre

Dear colleagues,

This month the Commission launched the JRC-led competence centre on participatory and deliberative democracy. The centre adds to our roster of knowledge and competence centres; it will provide guidance, tools and resources to help EU institutions and organisations across Europe strengthen citizen engagement in policy.

The New European Bauhaus is a great example of this engagement in action The JRC gathered the views and experiences of thousands of citizens and organisations on beautiful, sustainable and inclusive solutions for our living spaces. The initiative reached a major milestone with the recent adoption of a Commission Communication, which takes inspiration from these ideas and sets out several policy actions and funding possibilities to drive the New European Bauhaus forward.

We have also opened our world-leading structural assessment and nanobiotechnology labs for researchers to test innovative building materials that can help turn the ideas of the New European Bauhaus to reality.

Another great news of this month is that the JRC made available two new modules of the popular SELFIE self-assessment tool for digital teaching and learning : SELFIE for teachers and SELFIE for work-based learning. The tool, developed in 2018, has already been used by over 1.7 million people across 82 countries in Europe and beyond.

And finally, this month’s science story looks at research we are doing to support the EU’s push for more sustainable everyday products - from washing machines to smartphones. A major aspect of this is our will to repair them, rather than throw them away. JRC research has been exploring how to assess that ‘repairability’, and how to design these products so that they are both more repairable and more reliable.

Happy reading,

Stephen Quest, JRC Director-General

This month's science story

Fixing Europe’s throwaway culture: the science behind the EU’s push for the right to repair

Manufacturers should design their products with an eye to making future repairs more straightforward, such as coming up with modular designs, and making disassembly possible with simple tools.

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Latest updates

New European Bauhaus moves from co-design to delivery

Inspiring projects awarded as Commission lays out new actions and funding

Launch of new centre to design policies with citizens, for citizens

European Commission launches the competence centre on participatory and deliberative democracy.

Commission launches new tool to digitalise work-based learning

New SELFIE module to help make the most of digital technology in vocational education and training.

JRC publishes foresight report on the future of the EU’s Open Strategic Autonomy

The JRC examined existing strengths and areas for improvement and identified emerging challenges and future opportunities across five different areas: geopolitics, technology, economy, environment and society.

Economic costs of heatwaves to increase five-fold by 2060

With ever more frequent and longer heatwaves, European countries will have to face yearly economic losses up to 3% of their GDP.

Events

EU Soil Observatory Stakeholders Forum

This three-day event will reflect the challenges facing soil within the various strategies of the Green Deal (e.g. the Soil, Biodiversity and Farm2Fork strategies, Zero Pollution Action Plan) and Horizon Europe’s proposed Mission on Soil Health and Food.

date

19/10/2021 - 21/10/2021

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Online

Copernicus Emergency Management Service Week 2021

This event invites the public, service users, and experts to participate in a discussion about the future of our service and user community. The week will include the launch of the Global Flood Monitoring product and the adoption of the Global Human Settlement Layer as new service components.

date

25/10/2021 - 29/10/2021

venue

Online

Towards a European Green Deal data space: join us at the INSPIRE Conference

Each year, the European INSPIRE conference provides a forum for stakeholders from government, academia and industry to discuss the latest developments of the INSPIRE Directive. Through the 14 sessions of the 2021 Conference, panellists will cover data, the Green Deal, Citizen Science, location interoperability and the INSPIRE past, present and future.

date

25/10/2021 - 29/10/2021

venue

Online

Measuring socioeconomic position: share your views in the next DIGCLASS seminar

The DIGCLASS seminar series facilitates the exchange of cutting-edge ideas and debates related to social inequality, labour economics and political economy.

date

26/10/2021 - 26/10/2021

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Online

Annual Research Conference: Charting the European economy post Covid-19

Co-organised by the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN) and the JRC,the 2021 Annual Research Conference is the forum of excellence where European Institutions exchange knowledge and engage in dialogue with researchers at academic institutions and think tanks, practitioners at civil society organisations and citizens.

date

15/11/2021

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Brussels and online

Strengthening Technology Transfer in the EU - Focus on the Western Balkans and South-East Europe

Technology Transfer from the research lab to the market is the most complex and risky step of the innovation process. This conference will exchange best practices and help accelerate the development of the technology transfer ecosystems in the Western Balkans and South-East Europe.

date

17/11/2021 - 19/11/2021

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Trieste (Italy)

Jobs

Come and work with us

Looking for a job with the JRC? Check out the latest vacancies on our website. Right now we have several open positions in a diverse range of research fields, from low carbon technologies to financial analysis.

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Apply to access our labs

Test innovative building materials for the New European Bauhaus at our labs

The JRC invites proposals for projects to experiment, prototype and demonstrate ideas for the New European Bauhaus. The ELSA Reaction Wall and the Nanobiotechnology Laboratory will serve as collaboration platforms to stimulate creativity and innovation in the built environment.

The call is open until 16 January 2022.

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