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Online job ads provide detailed and immediate data on the skills requested in the job market. But they may provide a misleading picture of actual needs.
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The European Radionavigation Plan describes how more resilient and efficient satellite position and timing can become the hidden utility that underpins many sectors of the European economy.
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Large parts of northern Europe experienced a distinct cold spell at the beginning of the New Year. Distinctly warmer than usual conditions prevailed in south-eastern Europe. A pronounced precipitation surplus continued to affect many parts of north-western, central, and eastern Europe.
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Rooftop photovoltaics combined with energy efficiency measures and new technologies are promising to achieve net-zero energy buildings and sustainable cities, concludes a research that assessed RTPV impact worldwide based on climate.
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A meta-analysis of interactions of environmental policies shows that combining behavioural and traditional instruments works better than deploying a single intervention.
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The energy transition, and related scale-up of EU net-zero technology manufacturing, will accelerate demand for workers with the right skills, many of which are already in short supply.
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Policy makers, primary producers, consumers and businesses got together to imagine the bioeconomy of the future. The policy recommendations are now out.
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The current decade is critical to limit temperature rise to 1.5°C: investment in low- and zero-emissions technologies is instrumental to achieving the Paris Agreement target.
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Students living in rural areas or villages are less likely to participate in international mobility programmes because of motivational and language barriers, research shows.
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Data points to increased elf workload.