JRC news

Commissioner Gabriel meets representatives of villages and rural areas that host start-ups to discuss their needs to generate favourable conditions to attract businesses, pull investments for innovative projects, and create local job opportunities.

More than 2400 natural disasters have struck Europe in the last 30 year, causing huge economic losses from climatological, meteorological and hydrological. The Risk Data Hub (RDH) hosts resources to help authorities manage risks and justify financial support requests to cope with these major events.

Pesticides residues in food must be safe for consumers and as low as possible, and therefore EU laws set Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs) for each pesticide in each food product. The JRC releases a new Certified Reference Material for pesticides in wheat.

The March edition of the JRC's Anomaly Hotspots of Agricultural Production (ASAP) assessment is now available on ASAP assessment website.

The “Drought in northern Italy - March 2022” report offers an assessment of the evolution and impact of the 4-month long drought in the region, based on data from the JRC Global Drought Observatory (GDO) of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS).

The European Commission today awarded first prize to Bjarke Ingels Group, BIG in an international architectural competition to choose a concept design for the future permanent site of the JRC in Seville (Spain).

The JRC’s status report of the EU Reference Laboratory for alternatives to animal testing (EURL ECVAM), published today, describes JRC’s contributions to several of the actions set out in the Commission’s response to the Parliament in February 2022.

While the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to be dominated by the US and China, the EU has a worldwide revealed comparative advantage in several sophisticated AI-related sectors, the latest AI Watch Index reveals.

The rapid antigenic evolution of SARS-CoV-2 is likely to produce new, potentially more virulent variants. The lower severity of the currently dominant Omicron is a lucky coincidence, scientists from the JRC and the University of Oxford argue in a commentary published in Nature Reviews Microbiology.

According to the March issue of the JRC MARS Bulletin - Crop monitoring in Europe, published today, winter crops entered spring in fair to good condition in most parts of Europe following a predominantly mild winter. Weather and terrain conditions allowed for a good start to field operations.