The JRC Side event "JRC activities for a safe and secure nuclear in Europe", and official closing event of the 60 Years JRC Nuclear Safety and Security, will take place on 20 March 2024 in Brussels, on the margins of the Nuclear Energy Summit. The JRC Side event aims to highlight the role of JRC in nuclear science and technology, emphasising the need for strong support for nuclear research in Europe. JRC has been actively contributing to nuclear education and training of the next generation of experts in the nuclear field, maintaining essential know-how and competences throughout Europe.

Follow three excellent examples of using local strengths to innovate and grow. And your territory? What is your potential to innovate? Tune in and discover the secrets of innovative places with truly transformative powers.

In the Territories in ACTION Live News we will visit Kera, a future sustainable district in Finland where low-carbon concrete is produced. We will also stop by Medimurje, in Croatia, and learn how they transformed former barracks into a knowledge centre where children can learn robotics and science. And we will travel to Tuscany, Italy, to see how a traditional textile district can become circular thanks to digitalisation. 

The European Commission in collaboration with experts in the field has published the book ‘The Pandemic, Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Learning Outcomes. Cross-National Impact Analyses of Education Policy Reform’. During this book launch, the authors compare their case studies and look into what policies worked thus drawing some longer term lessons learnt and policy implications.

The event, co-organised by the JRC, aims to further explore and advance the transformative role of sustainable banking and finance in shaping a more resilient and environmentally conscious future. Call for papers is open. Call for paper: Early Draft paper submission deadline: 3rd April 2024 Notification of authors of accepted papers: 27th April 2024 Full paper submission deadline: 23rd May 2024 Registration: Conference registration: 14th May 2024

Are you fascinated by the idea of making a nuclear site suitable again for conventional purposes use? Would you like to work in an emerging field with great perspectives of career development and to serve the noble cause of environmental remediation? Do you want to discover more about the nuclear life cycle, the decommissioning process in practice, as well as its challenges and implications for involved industries and the society? Are you eager to learn from the experts and become an asset for the decommissioning industry? If your answer is “yes” and you are a post-graduate student in engineering, science or technology, then the Summer School on Nuclear Decommissioning and Waste Management is tailored for you! Registration will end on Friday 12 April 2024, 23:59 (CEST)

For these reasons, the JRC Summer School on Sustainable Finance aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to discuss recent developments and innovations in the field of sustainable finance. By doing so, it exposes researchers to the most demanding issues faced by the industry and helps them produce policy-relevant research. At the same time, it provides independent scientific advice to policy, reaffirming the crucial role of research in informing policymaking.

The 14th edition of the ESA/JRC International Summer School on GNSS will be held in Novo Mesto, in Slovenia. This summer school aims at training future generations of scientists and engineers, to support the space programme and foster innovation in the domain of space related applications.

The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) opens its scientific laboratories and facilities to people working in academia and research organisations, industry, 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 9 open calls at the moment:

The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) opens 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 that will researchers obtain, develop, improve, and retain the skills, knowledge, tools and equipment.

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.