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The Group of Chief Scientific Advisors to the European Commission, together with 37 International Senior Scientific Advisers from around the globe, released a joint statement ahead of the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference COP26, calling world leaders to take action for successfully mitigating climate changes and protect our planet.

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RI-URBANS is transforming air quality monitoring in Europe, advocating for cleaner urban air with innovative tools and strategies. It has significantly influenced the revision of the European Air Quality Directive, aligning it with WHO standards and introducing advanced monitoring for pollutants like ultrafine particles and black carbon. With 20 pioneering tools and comprehensive reports, RI-URBANS enhances air quality assessments, improves management practices, and safeguards public health across Europe.

In September, the first cohort of 40 cities were selected to join the NetZeroCities Twinning Learning Programme. They embarked on an important journey of shared learning, best practices, and much more in order to to replicate new approaches to climate neutrality. The next Call for Twin Cities is due to open in early spring 2024.

30 January, 10:00 - 12:00 CET, Zoom We invite you to join us online to hear about the latest innovations and outputs from the Horizon 2020 Green Deal Call-funded projects and the thematic working groups. At this webinar you can pose your questions directly to the projects to find out more about their work, discuss with like-minded peers and explore collaborative opportunities to foster meaningful connections.

German and French language versions of the scientific opinion on "Strategic Crisis Management in the EU" are now available online!

One-page summary of the Scientific Opinion of the Chief Scientific Advisors to the European Commission has been translated in 22 EU languages and is available for downloads.

Two of the papers prepared for the JRC science for policy ecosystem workshop series have now been published. The first paper, prepared by Stella Ladi, Dimitra Panagiotatou, and Angelos Angelou, focuses on the “The Greek ecosystem of science for policy” while the second one, written by Vítor Corado Simões, provides an analysis of “Science for policy in Portugal”.

Are you also trying to wrap your head around what artificial intelligence has to offer for boosting the societal use of scientific knowledge and which tools and strategies exist to help valorising your research results? Then this webinar is for you!

Agenda of the webinar is available now. Join us for best practices and lessons learnt from real life case examples about the different steps to prepare an innovation procurement: (1) Prior art analysis and needs identification, (2) Open market consultation and market analysis, (3) Developing a business case for the procurement, (4) Preparing the tender documents and launching the procurement. The European Assistance For Innovation Procurement will explain the free of charge assistance that it offers to public procurers around Europe to implement these four types of activities. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions.