Competence Centre on Modelling and Decision Analysis

An integral part of the model quality control and quality assurance at the European Commission is a scientific peer-review of models, including those developed and used by its Directorate-General Joint Research...

Air quality has significantly improved in Europe over the past few decades. Nonetheless we still find high concentrations in measurements mainly in specific regions...

Security of gas supply is a crucial stake for the European countries. The ProGasNet simulator has been developed by the European Commission to study the vulnerability of the gas network to different threats...

Several methods are proposed in the literature to perform global sensitivity analysis of computer models with independent inputs. Only a few allow for treating the case of dependent inputs...

The present report discusses innovation challenges under the following headings: The 3% R&D target and industrial structure: is it still a relevant goal? if we cannot...

When a public administration wishes to implement policies, there is a need of comparing different options and valuating and evaluating them to assess their social attractiveness. Traditionally, welfare...

European Commission‘s current practice of Impact Assessment (IA) considers three main objectives i.e. efficiency, effectiveness (including proportionality) and coherence and it is based on the assessment...

Fairness in the policy process can be seen as an ethical obligation to take a plurality of social values, perspectives and interests into account. This means that fairness is very much linked...

The policy discourses often refer to the term “efficiency” for indicating the necessity of reducing resources devoted to interventions and whole sub-sectors, while keeping the output produced constant. In this technical...

The current economic crisis has put ever more to the forefront the need to achieve educational goals in the most efficient way. Therefore, this report provides an empirical analysis...