JRC and systems analysis body sign deal
The heads of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) have signed a research co-operation deal in Austria.
The deal will allow the bodies to co-ordinate research in common fields, including transport, environment, energy, climate action and the bioeconomy; the agreement is signed on the occasion of the first JRC-IIASA ‘Summer School on Evidence and Policy’.
The pact was signed in the town of Laxenburg by Vladimír Šucha, director general of the JRC, and the Pavel Kabat, director general and chief executive of IIASA, and sets the framework for future collaboration between the two bodies.
The joint Summer School on Evidence and Policy sees scientists and policy makers come together to discover how to better scientific evidence for policy making, and it is anticipated that both organisations will collaborate in the area of science for policy following the new deal.
The JRC and IIASA have worked together for more than two decades, including scientific support to European Union Strategy for the Danube Region.
