Since several years the Eye@RIS3 tool has been forging transformative innovation collaboration across Europe and beyond, thus facilitating creation of numerous Innovation collaborative networks, projects and partnerships. The Commission’s Communication on a new European Innovation Agenda calls for supporting the creation of the regional innovation valleys, building on the Smart Specialisation Strategies, and where appropriate, on the Partnerships for Regional Innovation. The Eye@RIS3 tool provides key information on the innovation priorities on the basis of the national and regional Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3s). The S3 Platform has recently put on-line the updated tool with the new section aiming at the encoding of the territories’ RIS3 priorities for the period 2021-2027. The tool now facilitates encoding also for the new 2021 NUTS codes allowing for the territories that have changed their regional status in the recent years to encode their RIS3 priorities. In order to allow for full functionality of the tool shortly, we kindly invite the European regional/national authorities in charge to encode their new RIS3 priorities as soon as possible, in order to facilitate innovation networking across Europe, and in particular to facilitate the creation of and collaboration between upcoming regional innovation valleys. While the Eye@RIS3 tool for the period 2014-2020 has been closed for encoding or editing, the tool for the period 2021-2027 is now ready to propose or edit the respective S3 priorities.
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During the three-day event, representatives of six pilot countries (The Gambia, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Rwanda, and Seychelles) shared the state of the art on STI systems, policies and frameworks towards the SDGs. Needs, expectations and next steps were discussed both in plenaries and bilateral meetings. Dedicated capacity building training and workshops were provided, also in collaboration with invited partners including UNDESA and AUDA-NEPAD. The project aims to help design effective STI policies and strategies to support innovation ecosystems towards the SDGs in Africa, to strengthen STI capacities and to build more inclusive, sustainable societies.
This Newsletter summarises the activities of the Territorial Data Analysis and Modelling team
We are glad to inform that the application period for the EUROMOD Spring training which will take place in Seville is now open! Click on "more" below to apply and for detailed information.
We are glad to inform that a new public version of EUROMOD (I5.0+) has just been released! Click on "more" below for detailed information and access to the new model and software.
On the 23rd of November, we hosted an Iberian workshop at JRC Seville with cross-border regions from Portugal and Spain. The Portuguese Minister for Territorial Cohesion, Ana Abrunhosa, and the Portuguese Secretary of State for Regional Development, Isabel Ferreira, joined the debate with JRC researchers and representatives from 8 Portuguese and Spanish regional managing authorities. The workshop aimed to foster a collaborative culture, to exchange experience and knowledge about monitoring and evaluation, governance and inter-regional collaboration between Spanish-Portuguese border regions.
A REMO analysis on 2014-2020 ERDF beneficiaries using text mining analysis to identify circular economy projects is included in the report
The PRI aspiration towards Interregional Cooperation was presented in the 4th PRI Plenary event held. 132 representatives of the 74 PRI territories participated in the event. The European Committee of the Regions and the Joint Research Centre introduced jointly the PRI’s playing field for territories to cooperate on transitions to sustainability pathways. PRI members’ valuable experiences were exposed, and, after intense parallel working sessions, meaningful insights were harvested about the Interregional funding mechanism, Innovations Services and Collaboration in Policies and Tools for accelerating the transitions; the above can prove excellent building blocks for the regions to collaborate and for building up together joint proposals to submit to the European instruments/programs at the disposal of the Interregional Cooperation. Interreg, I3, Euroclusters and Missions and the forthcoming Deep Tech Valley’s Call were presented by DG RDT, DG REGIO, DG GROW and DG CLIMA.
A new public version of EUROMOD will be released on 30 January 2023. It will include 2022 policies for all countries and various improvements in the model's core and extended functionalities. The release will also be accompanied by a new software version. Watch this space for more information!
Do you use or are you interested in using EUROMOD for your teaching activities? Interested to participate in a forthcoming conference dealing with this topic? Click on "more" below for detailed information about this initiative from e-pública!
Antonio F. leads the development and update of EUROMOD Indirect Tax Tool. He also contributes to the assessment of the impact of indirect and green tax-benefit reforms and inflation analysis in EU Member States.
He has also wide experience in projects related with supply-use and input-output tables and on Productivity. Antonio previously worked for the Andalusian Regional Statistical Office and the Spanish Trade and Economic Office (Embassy of Spain in Chile). He is also Associate Professor in Pablo de Olavide University (Seville, Spain) with more than ten years’ of active experience in Quantitative Methods for Economics, on permanent special leave to serve at the European Commission since 2012. He was a visiting researcher at Tilburg University (the Netherlands).
Paola has recently joined the EUROMOD team. She works on the development and maintenance of EUROMOD and its Indirect Tax Tool extension. She also contributes to the assessment of the impact of tax and benefit policy reforms in EU Member States.
Paola is an experienced social science researcher specialising in applied micro-econometric analysis of social policies. Before joining the JRC in 2022, she worked as senior economist at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) in the UK where she led JRF’s economic modelling and econometric analysis. Her work focused on developing JRF’s modelling capabilities to better understand the causes of poverty in the UK and develop effective policy solutions to reduce it. She has also worked at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex as a Senior Research Officer and EUROMOD developer.
She holds an MSc in Applied Economics and Data Analysis (2001) and a PhD in Applied Social and Economic Research (2008) from the University of Essex (UK).
Her research interests lie in the fields of policy evaluation using microsimulation methods, redistributive effects of tax-benefit policies and poverty. Other research areas that she is interested in are consumer spending choices, health consequences of policy choices, environmental and economic planning, health care financial systems, forecasting and spatial micro-simulation models.
EUROMOD is becoming increasingly relevant as a research/analysis tool. In order to further facilitate its use in your projects and possibly to expand its reach to other research fields, we are currently looking into ways of improving its integration with other software, such as Stata, R, Matlab or Python.
The Croatian EUROMOD national team is comprised of Slavko Bezeredi and Ivica Urban. Let's find out more about them!
JRC recently gave an online technical session on the creation of EUROMOD input data based on alternative data sources, such as personal income tax returns, population registers and social insurance records.
We also delivered the 3-day general EUROMOD training course, which included sessions on microsimulation models and their applications, input data, model and software, along with hands-on exercises on the main EUROMOD functions and tools.
The material and slides of the technical session and the training course can be found here.
The user interface is the graphical view through which you interact with EUROMOD, is what you see when you open EUROMOD. We are considering the possibility to build a new EUROMOD user interface, in order to make it more efficient, flexible and user friendly.
Please click here to access the survey. It will remain open until 31 December 2022.
Your ideas and suggestions would be most welcome!
On the 28th of September, the European Commission proposed a Council Recommendation on adequate minimum income schemes. This proposal aims at combating social exclusion by ensuring adequate social safety nets, and in particular minimum income schemes, allowing persons lacking sufficient resources to live in dignity, as laid down by principle 14 of the European Pillar of Social Rights. Among the specific objectives of the initiative, improving the adequacy of income support and the coverage and take-up of minimum income schemes take a central role.
The European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan put forward a number of initiatives aiming at reducing socio-economic inequalities and poverty. One of them was for the Commission to adopt in 2022 guidance to Member States on making greater use of distributional impact assessments (DIAs).
On October 18 and 19, 2022, the Marriott hotel in Skopje was the chosen venue for the international conference “Implementing the Western Balkan Agenda on Innovation, Research, Education, Culture, Youth and Sport – Support to Smart Specialisation in the Western Balkans and Türkiye”. More than 100 participants attended the event including high officials, policy makers, innovation practitioners, representatives from start-ups and SMEs, academia, business society and civil organisations from the EU Enlargement region but also from the EU member states. The agenda included a diverse group of panel discussions that sought to elaborate on the benefits of the implementation of EU-style innovation policies, with particular focus on Smart Specialisation in the EU Enlargement region concerning the Western Balkan Agenda on Innovation, Research, Education, Culture, Youth and Sport.
Hannes has recently joined the EUROMOD team. He works on the development and maintenance of EUROMOD, and contributes to the assessment of tax-benefit policies. Before joining the JRC, Hannes worked as a functional analyst for a health insurance fund.
He is currently a PhD candidate at KU Leuven and holds a M.Sc. in European Studies and a M.Sc. in Economics and has a passion for programming.
His main research interests are in the fields of public and welfare economics and more specifically in the areas of microsimulation modelling, non-parametric welfare analysis, (optimal) income-tax reform analysis, and incorporation of fairness considerations in welfare measures.