Overview   Composite Indicators

This workshop brings together the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) with scientists of the European Commission’s Competence Centre on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards (COIN) with a view to discuss together how to further improve the Inclusive Digital Economy Scorecard (IDES) and to ensure that it is developed using the highest standards in composite indicator methodology.

The aim of our Webinar 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 Energy Transition Index (ETI) benchmarks countries on their progress towards transition to a secure, sustainable, inclusive, and reliable future energy system. It provides decision makers insights on countries’ energy system performance, and their readiness for energy transition. In addition to tracking core energy metrics, the ETI considers an inter-disciplinary definition to energy transition – reflective of the interconnectedness of energy transition with other aspects of the economy and society. ETI scores enable tracking progress of countries across different energy transition dimensions over time, benchmarking with peer economies, and identification of improvement areas for accelerated energy transition.

The aim of our Webinar 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 Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor and Cultural gems are two projects designed to help European cities monitor and map culture and creativity. Developed by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, they promote peer learning and a better understanding of how to get and use meaningful data.

Minderoo’s Global Fishing Index is an ongoing, independent, global study that tracks national-level progress towards ending overfishing in line with the Sustainable Development Goals. The Index tracks both health of fish stocks and fisheries governance systems in nearly 150 maritime countries and areas. The Governance Index characterises each country’s fisheries governance across 83 indicators and six dimensions that have been identified in the scientific literature and by fisheries experts as key for constraining overfishing in national waters. This unique global dataset will increase transparency, data availability and accountability across the fisheries sector and is due to launch in early 2021.

This two-day workshop aims to provide a summary of the main findings of the project on two of the domains studied: the impact of innovative private investments, and the impact of developments in artificial intelligence and digitalization.

he Advanced Technologies for Industry (ATI) project merges the indicators from two major EU initiatives, the KETs observatory and the Digital Transformation Monitor. In addition, the project implements the result of the project ‘Towards better monitoring innovation strengths, regional specialisation, and business trends in support of industrial modernisation in the EU’ namely its shortlisted indicators (30 in total). Besides the inherited indicators from previous initiatives the project also generates indicators via surveys and novel data sources (company websites, crunchbase and linkedIn). The indicators compose the data repository of ATI.

The aim of our Webinar 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.

Firstly launched in 2007, the Global Innovation index (GII) is now a widely recognised benchmarking tool for ranking about 130 economies by innovation around the world. The 2020 edition marks the 10th consecutive year that the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) assesses the GII through a methodological lens, at the invitation of the GII developers - Cornell University, INSEAD Business School and the World Intellectual Property Organization. This article celebrates this recurrence by shedding light on the independent assessment, to which the JRC has contributed since the GII moved its first steps to guarantee its transparency and reliability.

AESCON (Asia-Europe Sustainable CONnectivity) is the first scientific conference on Asia-Europe sustainable connectivity, bringing together researchers and policy analysts working in the field of international connectivity, globalization and their impacts on sustainable development, with a particular focus on Asia-Europe connections.

This workshop brings together DEVCO Unit 04, with scientists of the European Commission’s Competence Centre on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards (COIN) with a view to discuss together how to further improve the index and to ensure that it is developed using the highest standards in composite indicator methodology.

The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre is hiring five Quantitative Policy Analysts and five Trainees on Quantitative Analysis to work in the Monitoring, Indicators and Impact Evaluation Unit.

The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted Europeans’ life, preventing much of the economic and social life happening in cities. In this context, culture and creativity have played a central role in enhancing people’s capacity to cope with the confinement. At the same time, however, the physical distancing measures imposed by the pandemic have exposed cultural sectors and jobs to an unprecedented shock, with many cultural institutions, companies and professionals struggling for professional survival.

On 27 May 2020, the European Commission launched the 2020 Science, Research and Innovation performance of the EU (SRIP) Report, which reveals that research and innovation play a key role in providing solutions to overcome immediate challenges such as the coronavirus pandemic and making our society more resilient in the longer term. The SRIP report is a biannual Commission's flagship publication, which analyses Europe's performance in science, research and innovation and the driving factors behind that performance in a global context. The JRC traditionally contributes to the SRIP report through the

European cities with a high share of cultural and creative jobs are particularly exposed to the economic impacts of the coronavirus crisis, according to a new JRC report.

As part of its activities to analyse public opinion on the coronavirus pandemic and its consequences, a JRC research team is using Google search data to understand better the concerns of EU citizens.

Recently, the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) published a report on the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on existing gender divides in Europe. Brussels Binder volunteers Scarlett and Ana (virtually) met with its authors Zsuzsa Blaskó, Eleni Papadimitriou and Anna Manca Rita to discuss the report and their views on what role gender quality measures should play in the debate about recovery.

The JRC’s Cultural gems web app now includes ‘EU culture from home’: a hub of cultural initiatives from across Europe, from online opera performances to virtual art galleries.

On World Environment Day, the newly released Environmental Performance Index reveals that countries with long-standing policies to protect public health, preserve natural resources and decarbonising their economies top the ranking. European countries take the first 10 places in a list of 180 countries. Nevertheless, no country – even those at the top – can claim to be on a fully sustainable path.