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November 2023
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Joint Research Centre (JRC) - Newsletter
The Joint Research Centre provides independent, evidence-based knowledge and science, supporting EU policies to positively impact society
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Your monthly update from the Joint Research Centre
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Dear readers,
Foresight is all about exploring long-term futures and creating shared visions for policy-making. So as we gear up for a bumper year of elections, including those for European Parliament, I was happy to open this year’s conference of the European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS) where we explored the EU's strategic choices up to 2040.
The organisers, the JRC’s EU Policy Lab and the European Parliamentary Research Service, brought together an impressive line-up of speakers. While there was a sense of urgency about some immediate challenges and opportunities the EU faces, as well as a somewhat challenging outlook in areas like geopolitics, internal cooperation, and technology, we also picked up some positive signals.
This year’s conference provided an excellent platform for discussing Europe's strategic choices for the future. Key themes included the need for actionable foresight, changes in global power dynamics, the effects of globalisation and deglobalisation, the race for technological regulation, climate change cooperation, and democratic resurgence.
The 2023 conference also feeds into the preparation of the ESPAS Global Trends Report, the next edition of which is expected to be published in spring 2024.
This month, we 60 years of nuclear research at the JRC. Over the years, our nuclear researchers have made a very significant contribution in many energy-related fields, as well as in radioactivity, environmental monitoring, combatting the trafficking of nuclear materials, and using targeted alpha therapy on various types of cancer. Read Commissioner Ivanova’s op-ed on our many achievements and how nuclear research has been and will be one of the cornerstones of European collaboration.
Happy reading,
Stephen Quest
JRC Director-General
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This month's science story
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Wildfires in the EU: 2022 was the second-worst year, a warning from a changing climate
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In 2022, land roughly the size of Corsica was scorched by wildfires in the EU, according to the latest JRC report on fires in the pan-European region.
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Latest updates
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Countering the threat of civil drones: Commission presents new measures
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Two new JRC handbooks list key actions for effectively countering threats from Unmanned Aircraft Systems
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EDGAR database: EU’s emissions keep falling, as post-COVID rebound in world emissions continues
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In 2022, the world’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions grew by 1.4% as compared to 2021, while EU GHG emissions fell by 0.8%.
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Foresight conference: building Europe’s future, time for strategic choices
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An expected renaissance of democracies, a critical youth, and a more active civil society were sources of hope amid geopolitical angst, climate urgency, and AI unease.
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Climate-neutral tech solutions: EU’s strong in innovation, but lags in commercialisation
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The EU is ahead of its global peers in climate neutral technology innovation, while more effort is needed to commercialise these green innovations and finance the associated scale-ups, a JRC report shows.
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60 years of European nuclear research
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The story of joint European nuclear research is almost as long as that of European integration itself. Over time, nuclear research achieved important results also in fields that are unrelated with energy, such as nuclear forensics and healthcare.
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Divergence in land CO₂ flux estimates: new research offers more consistent accounting
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There are significant inconsistencies between the land use CO₂ estimates in national GHG inventories and those of the global models. Ahead of COP28, this study provides critical information for the assessment of global climate progress.
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New Atlas zooms in on Europe’s city-specific air pollutants, sources and measures to take
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The latest edition of the Urban PM2.5 Atlas pinpoints sectors and extent of air pollution across 150 European cities thanks to updated dataset and methodology.
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Events
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Artificial Intelligence in Banking and Capital Markets
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The New Frontiers in Banking and Capital Markets conference aims at providing a high-level conference setting where academics, practitioners, and regulators will present and discuss new ideas and exchange views on emerging research topics as well as perspectives on current challenges for banks and capital markets.
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11/12/2023 - 12/12/2023
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CAL2024: The 4th Crypto Asset Lab Conference
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The conference focuses on bitcoin, crypto-asset, and CBDC, with a special interest in liquidity management, investment, banking, finance, financial services, monetary theory, and regulation.
Call for papers: relevant dates
November 17, 2023: paper submission to papers@cryptoassetlab.org
December 2, 2023: paper acceptance
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11/01/2024 - 12/01/2024
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Calls and collaborations
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Open Access to JRC Research Infrastructures
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The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) opens its scientific laboratories and facilities to people working in academia and research organisations, industry, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and more in general to the public and private sector.
Scientists will have the opportunity to work in the following fields:
nuclear safety and security (Euratom Laboratories);
chemistry;
biosciences/life sciences;
physical sciences;
ICT;
Foresight.
There are twelve open calls at the moment:
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Call for proposals: FCTEST, Fuel cells and electrolyser testing facilities
Call for proposal: Hopkinson Bar facility, European Laboratory for Structural Assessment (ELSA)
Call for proposal: BESTEST, Battery Energy Storage Testing for Safe Electric Transport
Call for proposal: GasTeF, Gas Tank Testing Facility
Call for proposal: Reaction Wall, European Laboratory for Structural Assessment (ELSA)
SMPA, Structural Materials Performance Assessment Laboratories (EMMA)
MCL, Micro-Characterisation Laboratory (EMMA)
AMALIA, assessment of nuclear power plants core internals (EMMA)
Hopkinson Bar Facility, European Laboratory for Structural Assessment (ELSA)
HC-KA, Hot Cell Laboratory (ActUsLab)
PAMEC, Properties of Actinide Materials under Extreme Conditions (ActUsLab)
FMR, Fuels and Materials Research (ActUsLab)
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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. 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 to jrc-institutional-comm@ec.europa.eu
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Job opportunities
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Training and Capacity Building at JRC Laboratories
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The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) opens for the purposes of training and capacity building its scientific laboratories and facilities to people working in academia and research organisations, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and more in general to the public and private sector.
Offering access to visiting researchers is part of JRC's strategy to provide training and capacity building to strengthen their capabilities to obtain, develop, improve, and retain the skills, knowledge, tools, equipment and other resources needed to do their jobs competently or to a greater capacity within the running and use of similar Research Infrastructures.
After following a training and capacity building course at the JRC, scientists are more familiar with the JRC laboratories which can improve the suitability of their proposals for the Open Access to Research Infrastructures programme.
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Come 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 nuclear reactor safety analysis to software engineering & architecture.
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