Joint Research Centre (JRC) - Newsletter

Flood adaptation can be highly cost-effective and is crucial to offset rising river flood risk in Europe with climate change, according to a study co-developed by scientists from the JRC and published in Nature Climate Change

EU’s global navigation satellite system Galileo reaches another milestone today: its High Accuracy Service (HAS) becomes operational, offering unprecedented positioning accuracy. The JRC contributed to the definition, testing and validation of HAS.

A modelling exercise for a 1.5°C global warming scenario shows that energy trade shrinks to account for 13% of global energy demand in 2050, and energy production goes local as renewables increase to reach 75% share of energy supply.

The Commission 2023 Report on the Impact of Demographic Change revisits firmly established long-term trends in light of a number of recent developments and considers the consequences across Europe.

The results of a special Eurobarometer 529 survey on fairness, inequality and inter-generational mobility have been released. 

An EU report published today analyses the massive fish kill in the Oder River in July and August 2022, one of the largest ecological disasters in Europe in recent memory. The analysis by the Commission (Joint Research Centre) and European Environment Agency identifies the likely causes and proposes recommendations to help prevent such catastrophes from happening again.

A JRC report analyses the most spread narratives, their consequences, factors predicting how likely people are to believe or share them, and the most efficient ways to counter them. This prepares policymakers for future crises.

We talk with the lead scientist of CIAO, a project which involved 80 scientist and 50 organisations to follow the footsteps of the virus inside the body. They had one goal: managing the tsunami of COVID-19 information

The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic are both numerous and long-lasting. Disruptions are highly evident in the economic, education and health care sectors, for example. In this article, we focus on the challenges posed to the oncology community

Controlling pests that damage crops and plants is necessary both to safeguard food security and to ensure viable income to farmers for their production. This needs to be done while minimising the risks to people and the environment. Such an approach, using natural methods whenever possible and chemical pesticides as last resort, is called ‘integrated pest management’ (IPM). Today, the European Commission published a database presenting an overview of the IPM methods currently available, accompanied by a study assessing their effectiveness and prospects for their further uptake

A new assessment of the EU bioeconomy shows that while resource efficiency is improving, there’s a growing pressure on ecosystems from forestry and agriculture

SARS-CoV-2 is a constantly changing virus. This undermines the detection of the virus and the fight against the pandemic. We take stock of how JRC work has been contributing to global efforts to trace the virus, both in clinical swabs and wastewater

Ukraine’s population was already shrinking fast before Russia’s invasion. Now the war has set Ukraine on a path of irreversible demographic decline

According to an assessment conducted by the JRC, providing formal childcare to 40%, 50%, 60% and 65% of children under 3 would lead to remarkable increases in the labour supply of mothers

A novel soil health dashboard within the EU Soil Observatory highlights the location and estimates the extent of unhealthy soils in the EU, as well as the degradation processes behind them.