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News and information from the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission's science and knowledge service.

Geschiedenis

The JRC is a Directorate-General of the European Commission under the responsibility of Tibor Navracsics, Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth & Sport.

As the Commission's science and knowledge service, the Joint Research Centre's mission is to provide EU policies with independent, evidence-based scientific and technical support throughout the whole policy cycle. Its work has a direct impact on the lives of citizens by contributing with its research outcomes to a healthy and safe environment, secure energy supplies, sustainable mobility and consumer health and safety.

The JRC draws on over 50 years of scientific work experience and continually builds its expertise based on its seven scientific institutes, which host specialist laboratories and unique research facilities.

The Directorate-General's headquarters are located in Brussels, as well as the Policy Support Coordination Directorate. The Resources Directorate has offices at the JRC's sites in Brussels and Geel (Belgium), and Ispra (Italy).
The seven JRC institutes are located on six separate sites in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain. The Institutes are:
- the Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES)
- the Institute for Energy and Transport (IET)
- the Institute for Health and Consumer Protection (IHCP)
- the Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC)
- the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS)
- the Institute for Transuranium Elements (ITU)
- the Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (IRMM)
The Ispra site management (ISM) Directorate is responsible for the site management and for the nuclear decommissioning, safety, security and protection.

While most of our scientific work serves the policy Directorates-General of the European Commission, we address key societal challenges while stimulating innovation and developing new methods, tools and standards. We share know-how with the Member States, the scientific community and international partners. The JRC collaborates with over a thousand organisations worldwide whose scientists have access to many JRC facilities through various collaboration agreements.

The JRC is a key player in supporting successful investment in knowledge and innovation foreseen by the Horizon 2020 Work Programme, the EU’s programme for research and innovation.
Horizon 2020 sets out the overall objective for the JRC non-nuclear work as follows: to provide customer-driven scientific and technical support to Union policies, while flexibly responding to new policy demands. The JRC contributes to the overall objective of Horizon 2020 with its long-standing scientific expertise, modelling capacity, foresight studies; work on standards, infrastructure and e-infrastructures.

The JRC's nuclear work, funded by the EURATOM Research and Training Programme, has as its objective the pursuit of research, knowledge management and training activities with an emphasis on nuclear safety and security; thus we contribute to the transition to a carbon-free economy in a safe, efficient and secure way.