Competence Centre on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy

Science for Policy Handbook provides advice on how to bring science to the attention of policymakers. The handbook is dedicated to researchers and research organisations aiming to achieve policy impact. Today...

Drawing from many disciplines, the report adopts a behavioural psychology perspective to argue that “social media changes people’s political behaviour”. Four pressure points are identified...

This report summarises key findings and recommendations arising from a number of citizen engagement activities conducted by the JRC from May – October 2019 concerning the future of mobility and in particular...

This report summarises key findings and recommendations arising from narrative analysis of policy and industry proposals in the field of connected and automated vehicles, based on a hybrid methodology of ‘discourse analysis’...

BiodiverCities, a European Parliament pilot, aims to improve civil society participation in planning decision-making with respect to urban biodiversity, the nature in and around cities. The project has two...

Recognising that advances in behavioural, decision and social sciences demonstrate that we are not purely rational beings, this report brings new insights into our political behaviour...

In January 2018, the President of the Island Council sent and official letter to the JRC to explore the possibility of carrying out a similar workshop in Gran Canaria with regards to the topic of climate...

Technological innovations seem to be among the great promises for achieving the urgent modernisation of economies towards carbon-neutrality. Ranging from fusion energy, bio-based fuels, carbon capture...

Wearable sensors are an integral part of the new telemedicine concept supporting the idea that Information Technologies will improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare. The use of sensors in diagnosis...

On 2 and 3 November 2017, the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre organised a workshop on resilience in Tenerife. It was attended by a variety of people (academics, social...