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RSS![Transboundary watersheds are key contexts for EU’s Green Deal to protect the environment, address climate change challenges and invest in R&D and human capital to promote sustainable youth employment.](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2021-06/14.png?itok=pgKWlTSQ)
The water-energy-food-ecosystems (WEFE) nexus represents an emerging, integrated approach to resource management that aims to tackle rising demands...
![Benchmarking has becom gradually, one of the major indicators of the quality of many new research papers in the AI field.](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2021-06/adobestock_250415151.jpeg?itok=Dl3njl3g)
Benchmarking has been gradually replacing the traditional methods of evaluating scientific outputs (peer-review, etc.), becoming one of the major...
![Renewable hydrogen: long-distance supply can be competitive.](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2021-06/cmalp_adobestock_205368769.jpeg?itok=EfV5iTMg)
Renewable hydrogenis an energy carrier produced fromrenewablesources and can be used to replace fossil-based hydrogen for industrial processes or as...
![The Work Programme reflects the work the JRC will carry out in 2021/2022.](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2021-06/sergey_nivens-fotolia_99103349_subscription_monthly_xl.jpg?itok=BBvnPubX)
The JRC brings solid evidence and wide-reaching expertise to help the Commission achieve its political priorities.
![The JRC laboratory for alternatives to animal testing is 30 years old this year.](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2021-06/dsc_3954.jpg?itok=wXCcf69k)
Researchers are pushing scientific boundaries to identify new methods that will ultimately make animal testing redundant in the EU.
![The framework spans 10 key life domains, from knowledge, health and material wellbeing to culture and environmental conditions.](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2021-06/mimf_social_media_02-01.png?itok=NudBTmd-)
New framework provides useful insights to monitor, map, track and compare inequalities across the EU.
![The airborne route is a potentially important transmission pathway for SARS-CoV-2 or influenza in indoor environments.](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2021-05/adobestock_336010520.jpeg?itok=AkhnWd20)
Scientists in the Joint Research Centre published a study on how covid-19 virus spreads by aerosols and droplets.
![Transition periods and proper use of various alternative fuels are important because new technologies need time to be developed.](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2021-05/adobestock_336895491.jpeg?itok=577fpg5B)
A JRC study analyses R&I in low-emission alternative energy for transport in Europe excluding energy and fuel production.
![The FIGARO database provides consistent access to figures from different national sources for all EU member states and their main trading partners.](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2021-05/figaro_twitter_visual.png?itok=AWY0lJkD)
Launched today as a unique and harmonised product developed by the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) and the Joint Research Centre...
![The blue economy as a whole presents a huge potential in terms of its contribution to a green recovery](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2020-06/adobestock_187475954_marima.jpeg?itok=347xEoy1)
The EU blue economy employed close to 4.5 million people in 2018 and generated around €650 billion in turnover.
![Bees, butterflies and other pollinating insects are vital cogs in the ecological machine.](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2021-05/kosolovskyy_adobestock_215409363.jpeg?itok=c5qmDqLp)
New report has ten key messages on the current state of Europe’s ecosystems and the way forward
![All hospitals should establish a risk management strategy for oxygen hazards.](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2021-05/20210519_webnews_saelim_adobestock_209235141.jpeg?itok=0V3xHUNe)
The JRC issued a series of recommendations to help prevent the hospital fires associated with medical oxygen needed for Covid-19 severely ill patients...
![The concept of health must encompass physical, mental and social well-being.](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2021-05/mary_long_adobestock_297877756.jpeg?itok=fS9P3jC4)
The Joint Research Centre launches a section on mental health on its Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Knowledge Gateway.
![Climate change will cause more frequent and intense droughts in southern and western parts of Europe](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2021-05/drought_losses.png?itok=OdDWJxRB)
The impact of droughts on Europe’s economy could reach over €65 billion a year by 2100, according to a JRC study published today
![The EU aquaculture sector reached €4.1 billion in turnover in 2018, according to a new JRC report. However, the report estimates that the coronavirus pandemic hit the sector by decreasing income sources and increasing costs.](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2021-05/eu.aquaculture.report_copyright.mariusltu_adobestock_263321963.jpeg?itok=SzrEKNGe)
Globally, aquaculture – farmed fish, shellfish and aquatic plants – recently surpassed wild capture fisheries as the main source of all the seafood we...
![A damaged heavy oil tank in Haramachi Thermal Power Plant, June 2011.](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2021-05/1024px-damaged_heavy_oil_tank_in_haramachi_thermal_power_plant_2.jpg?itok=ZbumJE-H)
According to a JRC study, the Black Swan metaphor is overused for technological accidents in general and for those caused by natural hazards in...
![New genomic techniques have significantly expanded over the last twenty years.](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2021-04/marina_zlochin_adobestock_327339423.jpeg?itok=OxB-A5p9)
The JRC contributed to a new study published today by the Commission on the status of new genomic techniques under Union law.
![The Atlas of Demography is a new knowledge management tool to better understand demographic change.](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2021-04/aod_generic_2.jpg?itok=24MFH98O)
The Commission has launched an EU 'Atlas of Demography'– an interactive online tool to visualise, monitor and anticipate demographic change in the...
![Wastewater is an efficient and cheap tool to monitor the ‘health’ of the population.](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2021-04/wastewater_hr.jpg?itok=56BlEU9Y)
A JRC report describes the development of a Europe-wide wastewater surveillance system for tracking SARS-CoV-2.
![One of the Paris Agreement’s goals is to limit the global temperature increase to 2OC above preindustrial levels.](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2021-04/climate_forest_trees_giacomo_grassi.png?itok=048Zfi8M)
The JRC study proposed a method for improving the assessment of collective progress towards the Paris Agreement’s goals