We coordinate knowledge services to address the growing need for reviewing and analysing knowledge.

On the basis of our open data principles we publish tools and databases. The tools and databases are categorised by name and acronym.

The JRC maintains a wide range of laboratories and research facilities across five EU countries and six sites.

The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) opens its scientific laboratories and facilities to people working in academia and research organisations, industry, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and more in general to the public and private sector.

The JRC is a centre of reference in its key competence areas through extensive networks with the relevant organisations in the Member States and...

Our Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) aims to enhance our capabilities to better understand and address complex and long-term societal challenges facing the EU.

In order to provide a high standard of scientific and technical support to EU policy, the JRC carries out high-quality crosscutting research.

In pursuing its mission to provide scientific and technical support to policy-makers, the JRC generates inventions and technologies, most of them protected by patents. Selected patents and technologies available for licensing are listed here below.