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The Competence Centre on Modelling (CC-MOD) of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission is organizing the 91-st Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding (EWG-MCDA) which will be held from Thursday April 2-nd to Saturday April 4-th, 2020, at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Ispra site, Italy. The main theme of this meeting is "Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding in Public Policy". We are extremely sad to announce this meeting cancellation.

As the Covid-19 outbreak disrupts travel and meetings around the world, the RPCA held this year’s restricted meeting as a videoconference in order to share crucial information on the food and nutrition situation in the region. More than 200 participants connected from various sites in Abuja, Accra, Bamako, Niamey, Ouagadougou, Roma, Paris and many other places. The videoconference focused on the agricultural, food and nutrition situation, validation of the Cadre harmonisé results as well as implementation of national response plans. Members also took stock of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the food and nutrition situation in the region.

With just ten years to go before the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDG 2030) is to be fulfilled, reducing food loss and waste is critical to achieving this agenda.

At the conference, the Interreg projects BioBIGG and BalticBiomass4Value will look into the bioeconomy potential in the Baltic Sea region and provide the opportunity to build and strengthen networks.

Forward-thinking regions are taking the lead in the development of a sustainable and circular forest-based bioeconomy with the launch of a new European Bioregions Facility.

The event will bring together high-level speakers from EU and UN institutions, EU Member States and regions, the UN global pilot programme countries, other international institutions as well as experts and practitioners.

This meeting place for the global pellet community offers a great opportunity to get informed about current trends in the pellet and bioenergy world.

This presentation discusses the role of trade and global value chains in sustainable food systems and the role that private standards and public regulations play in this process, drawing on a variety of empirical indicators and studies.

The European Commission announced an ambitious roadmap to tackle the challenges ahead of us. The “European Green Deal” is designed in such a way that no individual nor any region should be left behind the great transformation. The governmental initiative for knowledge-based agriculture, aquaculture, and forestry in the bioeconomy – BIOEAST, of 11 Central and Eastern European member states could play a key role in helping to form the necessary partnerships, to join forces in developing needs, priorities and to work together at the European level in order to achieve the common objectives.

The meeting will discuss how rural climate efforts can be proved and demonstrated, in order to be recognised by markets, authorities and the wider society. Building on examples from different parts of rural Europe, the meeting will discuss possible ways of demonstrating rural activities’ contribution to climate action and environmental sustainability. These may include participatory certification schemes, shared sustainability criteria, or territorial climate labels, among other things. The meeting is addressed at National Rural Networks, RDP Managing Authorities, Local Action Groups and any stakeholders involved in bioeconomy value chains or rural bioeconomy initiatives.

We are excited to announce our first conference “A European perspective on Artificial Intelligence (AI): Paving the way for SMEs’ AI adoption in key industrial value chains”. This two-day conference, will focus on knowledge exchange and networking among European SMEs, decision makers, AI innovators and academics in order to assess existing and potential future policy initiatives to support AI adoption.

Co-Organized by IFPRI and the European Union.

Global trends in population growth and dietary changes show that the overall demand for food will continue to increase, and there are risks of natural resource degradation and scarcity due to increased competition and climate change.

The aim of our Seminar Series is to bring together international experts and scientists to share their knowledge on the development, study, and use of Composite Indicators and Scoreboards. Indices aggregate multi-dimensional concepts into a simplified one.

The world’s forests are in serious danger from deforestation and forest degradation. Pressures on EU forest ecosystems due to climate change and unsustainable forest management are a reason for concern and are expected to increase in the future. Protecting forests means protecting biodiversity and working for a climate neutral and climate resilient land. In this context, DG Environment organises an international Conference on Forest for Biodiversity and Climate Change.

In this report, the KCMD adopted a new perspective to investigate the complex relationship between voting preferences and attitudes towards migration across the EU. In particular, the project investigates the importance of territorial contexts in shaping opinions and electoral behaviours in all 28 Member States of the EU. It does so by analysing Eurobarometer data from 2011 to 2019 and mapping votes in the 2019 European Parliament elections at different geographical resolutions. The findings offer useful insights to improve our understanding of the complex interplay between perceived and/or actual socio-economic realities, demographic change and migration. Doing so enables us to better understand their impact on politics and the extent to which they affect trust in the EU. (Photo credit: © European Union, 1995-2020)

The OECD will launch the OECD AI Policy Observatory, a platform to encourage responsible, trustworthy and beneficial artificial intelligence systems and policies.

Dynamic of Work for a Transition Senegal (DYAETS), with the support of Enda Pronat, MISEREOR, Ndiob City Hall and GRET, organizes the 3rd edition of Agroecology Days, on January 30th and 31st, 2020, at Dakar.

14th Arctic Frontiers conference with the theme “Power of knowledge”. The conference has a pan arctic perspective and builds new partnerships across nations, generations and ethnic groups. Arctic Frontiers provides a forum for dialogue and communication between science, government and industry in the Arctic.

The conference brought together key representatives from within the European Commission to meet and discuss two key themes with the community of KT practitioners represented by ASTP. The first focused on sharing the results of the most recent joint project with the JRC, while the second identified topics for further direct collaboration with the EC, highlighting several other intitiatives driven by these national and pan-European communities.