Engaging with the research community is core to ECAT's work, especially when it comes to the investigation of systemic risks, as outlined in the DSA. A wealth of insights on these risks and their mitigations are regularly published across the world, and we hope to draw your attention to just some of the projects that have caught our eye.
On 29 April, we kicked-off the work of the Preparatory Action 'Innovation for place-based transformation'! High level speakers such as the Executive Vice-Presidents Teresa Ribera and Raffaele Fitto, and Commissioner Jessika Roswall joined territories and experts in Brussels to discuss transformative innovation approaches to tackle key global challenges.
A Transforming Territories podcast, a part of the awareness-raising branch of the European Parliament Preparatory Action: innovation for place-based transformation. This initiative looks to work with around 200 territories on innovative ideas that can help them transform and become ready for the future- more competitive, more sustainable and more digital.
The Commission has informed TikTok of its preliminary view that the company does not fulfil the DSA obligation to publish an advertisement repository.
ECAT is still a new and growing team, with colleagues joining from a wealth of backgrounds with a diversity of high-level expertise.
The New European Bauhaus took the stage at Expo 2025 Osaka, to explore how urban planning can support democracy, resilience, and social cohesion in a changing world. Following a keynote address by Executive Vice-President Virkkunen, a panel of international experts engaged in a debate on connected, liveable, future-ready and inclusive cities. Read more.
What reading has inspired, helped or even provoked our team lately? Here you have the chance to find out, and hopefully get a few ideas of your own!
Under Art. 28 of the DSA, the Commission has the mandate to publish guidelines to help platforms comply with the duty to ensure the safety, security and privacy of minors accessing their platforms. ECAT has supported the development of such guidelines, which are now published for consultation - respond by 10 June!
JRC-Seville has recently published a job opening for an Economic Analyst in the field of microsimulation modelling of tax and social benefits. Click on "more" to find out about it.
The EUROMOD Spring training will take place on 21-23 May 2025 in Seville. The event will be fully streamed online, with a live chat. No prior registration is needed for online attendance. Click on more for relevant links and information.
David is part of the Fiscal Policy Analysis unit and in charge of all environment-related work. Let's get to meet him!
Welcome to the spring edition of the ECAT newsletter!
Emilia Gómez, one of ECAT's team leaders, made the case for effective and well-evidenced AI regulation in her TEDAI Talk "A Musical Approach to AI Regulation".
This Commission call aims to foster a more trustworthy and safer online environment for European citizens. The submission deadline is 2 September.
ECAT hosted two roundtables with top experts on the impact of platforms on the mental and physical health of minors. In this new report, we summarise the discussion, which touched on topics such as mental health, brain development and sleep.
Five African countries have completed Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) roadmaps to tackle critical local issues such as food security, climate resilience, energy transition and health, and to progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
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ARDECO is the leading source for demographic and socio-economic statistics at the regional and sub-regional levels. Data cover population, employment, economic growth, migration, and more, from as early as 1980. Browse the platform to discover freshly released datasets.
European population is overall declining and ageing, and this affects economic growth, public services and social support systems. However, these trends do not affect all territories in the same way and remote rural regions are facing the most profound impacts.
The European Commission’s Competence Centre on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy wants to hear from public administrations in the EU about their experience in achieving impact through citizen engagement exercises in policymaking. We are especially interested to know what impacts were important to you and why the initiative/s had the impacts that they did. Contributions are welcome before April 30, 2025.
