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At the recent event ‘Scientific support to Internal Market’ organized by JRC in Brussels on 21 February 2013 and attended inter alia by Commissioner Michel Barnier, the Deputy Secretary-General...

Interactions in research are multifaceted and need not go in the same direction. For example, higher overall mobility of researchers in science & technology need not go...

The main contribution of this project lies in the assessment of the efficiency of national research systems in achieving excellent research performances. The efficiency assessment is not only restricted to the production of research...

This report aims at assessing whether the economic structure of Europe is becoming more knowledge-intensive, in comparison with other countries (EU, EFTA and non-European benchmarks US, Japan, China)...

European forests are seen as a clear example of vegetation rebound in the Northern hemisphere, recovering in area and growing stock since the 1950s, after centuries of stock decline and deforestation...

This paper provides a geographical assessment of potential bioenergy production in the European Union from residues of eight agricultural crops (wheat,barley,rye,oat,maize,rice,rapeseed and sunflower).The evaluation is geographically explicit at the scale of1...

This report is the deliverable of the first work package (WP1) of the feasibility study entitled: ‘ERA monitoring: Composite Indicators measuring the progress in the construction and integration of a European Research Area’...

This report is the deliverable of the second work package (WP2) of the feasibility study entitled ERA MONITORING and financed by DG RTD. The objective of this work package is to explore the possibility to develop...

This paper provides a resource-based assessment of the available agricultural crop residues for bioenergy production in the European Union, at the level of the 27 Member States. The assessment provides the amount of the residues...

Percentage of residential houses, which have been built before 1950. Based on National Census and building stock statistics.