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April 2022
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Joint Research Centre (JRC) - Newsletter
The European Commission's science and knowledge service
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Your monthly update from the Joint Research Centre
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Dear colleagues,
This month, the Commission launched the NEB LAB: a ‘think and do' tank for tangible projects. It connects the New European Bauhaus community further and facilitates the sharing of ideas about beautiful, sustainable, and inclusive changes. The launch was accompanied by a call for Friends of the initiative to involve companies, regions, villages and cities more directly in the NEB.
We have also announced the winner of the New European Bauhaus international architectural contest for a new building housing 400 researchers at the JRC site in Seville. The prize went to Bjarke Ingels Group, BIG for coming up with an incredible design covering the site with a cloud of solar canopies just like the ‘pergolas’ – shaded passageways – typical to this Andalusian city. The building will enable us to “walk the talk” by embodying the New European Bauhaus values of sustainability, aesthetics and inclusion.
Our ISPRA site inaugurated two new laboratories that will allow scaling up Commission's capacity to test car emissions. As you may remember, the Commission's competence to check emissions from cars is the result of the overhaul of the EU vehicle type approval legislation after the “Dieselgate” scandal. A clear example of our impact on EU citizen’s everyday life.
Happy reading,
Stephen Quest, JRC Director-General
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This month's science story
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The ongoing drought in northern Italy threatens agriculture yields and energy production, Commission studies warn
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Latest updates
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Why there might be no end in sight in the COVID-19 pandemic
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The rapid antigenic evolution of SARS-CoV-2 is likely to produce new, potentially more virulent variants. The lower severity of the Omicron variant is a lucky coincidence, the JRC and the University of Oxford argue in Nature Reviews Microbiology
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BIG solar dome wins competition for new JRC site in Seville
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The European Commission today awarded first prize to Bjarke Ingels Group, BIG in an international architectural competition to choose a concept design for the future permanent site of the Commission’s Joint Research Centre site in Seville (Spain).
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Coronavirus response: monitoring of wastewater contributes to tracking coronavirus and variants across all EU countries
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One year ago, the European Commission adopted a Recommendation asking EU Member States to put in place wastewater monitoring to track COVID-19 and its variants. All EU Member States have taken rapid action and today around 1 370 wastewater treatment plants are under regular surveillance across the EU.
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EU has comparative advantage in autonomous robotics, AI services
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While the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to be dominated by the US and China, the EU has a worldwide revealed comparative advantage in several sophisticated AI-related sectors, the latest AI Watch Index reveals.
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EU 2021 wildfire season was the second worst on record, finds new Commission report
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2021 was the second-worst wildfire season in the European Union since 2000, when the European Forest Fire Information System EFFIS records began. Damages in 2021 were only surpassed by those in 2017, when over 1 million hectares (ha) burned in the EU.
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Start-up villages: a commitment to a long-term vision for rural areas
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JRC has been tasked to act as a knowledge manager and to connect multiple stakeholders united in reviving rural communities, to promote knowledge exchange and cooperation activities. It will facilitate the StartUp Village Forum network aimed to be an open space where institutions and stakeholders can meet, discuss and shape action for startup-driven innovation in rural areas.
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Events
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Resonances IV SciArt Summer School
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The Summer School will be a fertile ground for fermenting ideas on the theme of NaturArchy: Towards a Natural Contract.
The programme reaches out to artists producing work in the rich lands between art and science, whose work engages diverse audiences, and who show strong interest in scientific inquiry.
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20/06/2022 - 24/06/2022
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International Risk Management Conference 2022 "Risk Management and Sustainability in an Era of Pandemic and Climate Change"
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15th Edition of the Annual Meeting of The Risk, Banking and Finance Society in association with University of Florence, NYU Stern Salomon Center, Fundação Dom Cabral and LUM Giuseppe Degennaro, under the auspices of the JRC.
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04/07/2022 - 05/07/2022
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Vaccination and the pandemic: lessons from behavioural insights
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The COVID pandemic provided a wealth of knowledge on changed routine childhood vaccination, life-course vaccination and future pandemic preparedness. The symposium gathers presentations on lessons learned and innovative perspectives on vaccination.
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26/04/2022
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Annual Research Conference 2022 - How to turn green in the European way?
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The Annual Research Conference, now in its 19th year, is themed How to turn green in the European way? Keeping the cutting edge while remaining fair and social. It brings together leading economic scholars and policy practitioners to discuss cutting-edge research addressing Europe’s economic policy challenges.
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20/09/2022 - 21/09/2022
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The 4th International Conference on European Studies
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The conference gathers scholars from different fields in Economics and Social Sciences, with the objective of contributing to the empirical and theoretical debate on Europe.
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20/06/2022 - 22/06/2022
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University of Milan- Bicocca
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COMPIE 2022 conference
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Developments in the theory and the applications of counterfactual methods for policy impact evaluation
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04/07/2022 - 06/07/2022
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Calls and collaborations
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Scaling up sustainable finance in low- and middle-income countries
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The European Commission has launched a call for applications for the high-level expert group on scaling up sustainable finance in low- and middle-income countries.
The recommendations of the group will inform a dedicated Commission strategy that is scheduled for adoption in 2023. The strategy is part of the EU efforts to address inequalities and foster a green, just and resilient global recovery by mobilising private capital for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement.
The call for applications, the terms of reference and other information can be found here.
Applications need to be submitted before 11/05/2022 at 18h (Brussels time) to the following mailbox: EC-SUSTAINABLE-FINANCE-LMICS-HLEG@ec.europa.eu
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The European Startup Village Forum: Call for Pledges
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The Startup Village Forum aims to promote knowledge exchange and cooperation activities and to work as an open space where institutions and stakeholders can meet, discuss and shape action for startup-driven innovation in rural areas. A call for pledges has been launched to gather the commitment of public and private organisations to support the objectives of the Forum through the implementation of activities on the ground. This call is open for pledges that can offer financial but also in-kind support, such as the provision of co-working spaces, IT infrastructure or expertise, coaching, mentoring or training, aiming at creating startups and job opportunities in rural areas.
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Keep up to date with the latest news
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The latest JRC news, in your country
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Do you follow the work of the JRC, but could benefit from more country-specific information? Follow us for the latest scientific information, specific to your country: from the air quality situation to the the latest estimates on cancer incidence.
The JRC provides a 'Science Flash for You' for all EU countries, translated into your country's official language, with knowledge on these issues and more.
If you're interested in receiving these updates, drop us an email indicating the country bulletin you would like to receive to jrc-institutional-comm@ec.europa.eu
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Job opportunities
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Come and work with us
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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 gas sector analytics to digital forensics.
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