We are glad to inform that the registration for the EUROMOD Spring training that will take place in Seville is already open! Click on "more" below to apply and for detailed information.
The third edition of the Banca d’Italia Workshop on Microsimulation Modelling will be hosted in Rome, on 4 July 2025. The workshop brings together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to explore innovative methodologies and discuss applications of microsimulation modelling.
We are glad to inform that a new stable version of EUROMOD has just been released! Click on "more" below for detailed information and access to the new model and software.
On Tuesday 11 March 10:30 CET, JRC will give a 1h session on the new features included in today's release.
Find out about available positions in the team here
As previously announced, two technical sessions are scheduled for February: one on using the Stata Connector to EUROMOD (20 February, 11:00 CET) and one on benefit take-up adjustments (25 February, 11:00 CET).
On Thursday 6 March 14:00 CET, JRC will offer an online interactive session on consumption taxes in EUROMOD. Click on "more" to register and find out more about this event.
The 2025 European Meeting of the International Microsimulation Association will be hosted by the University of Galway on 24-25 June 2025. Submissions in the fields of microsimulation, agent based modelling and computational methods are welcome.
The JRC will be launching a new call for higher education institutions or universities to participate in the Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Programme. One of the topics is related to analyses of labour taxation with the use of EUROMOD-HHoT.
We are excited to share that we got a host of applications for all three tracks of the “Innovation for Place-Based Transformation” initiative! We are busy evaluating the applications for the experimentation journeys and capacity-building projects. Keep an eye out for updates, as we will be reaching out to applicants in the next few weeks.
Colleagues at the Joint Research Centre have published a paper finding that spending more than 2 hours per day on social network sites is associated with a substantial increase in the prevalence of loneliness.
The Commission has sent a request for information to Shein on the presence of illegal content and goods on its marketplace, the transparency of its recommender systems and access to data for qualified researchers.
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!
ECAT is still a new and growing team, with colleagues joining from a wealth of backgrounds with a diversity of high-level expertise.
As part of the REGDUALOSA project, after the exciting gathering in Podkarpackie (Poland) in December 2024, stakeholder consultations in Seville (Andalusia) and Tallinn (Estonia) in January marked key milestones for two of our territorial case studies. These cases explore how place-based innovation policies can support dual-use technologies and the defence industry, contributing both to regional development and to Europe's Open Strategic Autonomy.
The Commission has addressed three additional technical investigatory measures to X relating to the platform’s recommender system. These fact-finding steps take place in the context of the formal proceedings opened in December 2023.
The Commission published an elections toolkit, providing practical details on how the DSA Election Guidelines can be applied during electoral processes. It summarises the best approaches and practices pioneered by national regulators over the past year to mitigate risks on VLOPs and VLOSEs during elections.
Welcome to the first 2025 edition of the ECAT newsletter! In case you recently joined us, this is a quarterly newsletter where we share the latest updates on enforcement of the Digital Services Act (DSA) and relevant research by the ECAT team, colleagues within the European Commission, and the wider research community.
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.
In startup villages, innovative entrepreneurship helps unlock the development potential in rural areas. If you think your municipality is or could become a Startup Village, learn more and become part of the network!
