Commission adopts new JRC work programme
The European Commission has adopted the Joint Research Centre’s (JRC) Work Programme for 2016-2017 under Horizon 2020.
The key objectives of the programme reflect the ten priorities set by the commission’s agenda for jobs, growth, fairness and democratic change. In particular, the JRC will support a wide array of policy initiatives addressing economic growth, energy and climate, and migration.
The JRC’s activities across all policy areas will help identify synergies and trade-offs between policies and foster collaborative working. They will especially support the commission’s work on ‘better regulation’, which focuses on designing efficient policies and laws with minimum cost while avoiding over-regulation.
In support of the commission’s objective of improving the way it manages knowledge, the JRC intends to set up a number of pilot knowledge and competence centres in priority policy areas aimed at facilitating knowledge management across the commission’s departments. While knowledge centres will create and structure internal and external scientific knowledge for a specific policy field or across policy fields, competence centres will bring together analytical expertise such as modelling or data mining which are independent of any theme, and can be applied across policy areas.
A pilot knowledge centre for territorial policies is envisaged for this year. As for the competence centres, they will be set up in the areas of microeconomic evaluation and modelling. A competence centre on composite indicators and scoreboards was launched on 3 February.
