The role of Joint Research Centre as reference centre for science and technology

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Promoting Collaboration of the Joint Research
Centre with IcelandDr. Giancarlo Caratti Head
of Customer and Stakeholder RelationsJoint
Research Centre, European Commission http
//www.jrc.ec.europa.eu Reykjavik, 27 August 2008
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Where does the JRC fit in the European Commission?
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The Mission of the Joint Research Centre
to provide customer-driven scientific and
technical support for the conception,
development, implementation and monitoring of EU
policies.
As a service of the European Commission, the JRC
functions as a reference centre of science and
technology for the Union.
Close to the policy-making process, it serves the
common interest of the Member States, while being
independent of special interests, whether private
or national.
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JRC Structure 7 Institutes in 5 Member States
IRMM - Geel, Belgium Institute for Reference
Materials and Measurements ITU - Karlsruhe,
Germany Institute for Transuranium Elements IE -
Petten, The Netherlands Institute for Energy IPSC
- Ispra, Italy Institute for the Protection and
Security of the Citizen IES - Ispra,
Italy Institute for Environment and
Sustainability IHCP - Ispra, Italy Institute for
Health and Consumer Protection IPTS - Seville,
Spain Institute for Prospective Technological
Studies
2750 staff 340 M/y budget ( 40 M/y
competitive income)
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JRC in FP7 Indicative Budget Breakdown

• 578 M Solidarity
• Environment
• Health
• Climate Change
• Rural Development
• 403 M Security
• Natural Disasters
• Internal/External Security
• Food Chain

• 683 M Prosperity
• Chemicals
• Biotechnology
• Energy and Transport
• Information Society
• 517 M Nuclear
• Nuclear Energy, Safety and Security
• 88 M World Partner
• Global Security

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JRC Typology of Activities

• EU Policy support intensive interaction with
  policy DGs and relevant stakeholders direct
  scientific/technical input into legislative
  process operational support alert/anticipation,
  quick response functions and monitoring of
  compliance (e.g., crop declarations under Common
  Agricultural Policy)
• Scientific-technical reference systems establish
  standardised methodologies and measurement
  protocols (GMO, BSE/TSE, environmental quality,
  nuclear safety etc)
• Research partnerships European Research Area,
  user laboratories, access to large facilities,
  networks, training and mobility, co-operations
• Specific actions towards New Member States and
  Candidate Countries

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Several projects focused on specific needs of the
target countries, including

• Environment (Air Quality, Mining Waste, Water
  Quality, MAHB, etc.)
• Food (GMO, mycotoxins)
• Agriculture (MARS, Animal identification,
  Sustainable Agriculture)
• Energy (Cogeneration, Renewables, Conservation)
• Metrology
• Nuclear Safety and Security
• Support to IS Policies

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Current JRC Priorities

• Contribute to the European Strategic Energy
  Technology (SET) Plan, namely for developing a
  Technology Map (status and prospects of key
  energy technologies) and a Capacity Map
  (sketching the energy research capacities and
  infrastructures in the EU Member States).
• Support EU Climate Change policy aiming at
  limiting Global Climate Change to 2C compared to
  pre-industrial level, by means of climate change
  research, scenario development socio-economic
  impact studies, etc.
• Increasing Internal and External security
  (addressing terrorist threats, combating
  proliferation of CBRN, support border control,
  ).
• Support to the Lisbon Process (digital divide,
  econometric tools, interplay between innovation
  and regulation, standards and references in
  support of growth, ).

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JRC Policy Support Example Foresight
3rd International Seville Conference on
Future-Oriented Technology Analysis 16-17 Oct.
2008

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JRC Policy Support Example Security Through Open
Sources - EMM Service
Live news Push alerts By SMS
All Europes newsBreaking News 5,000,000 article
Archive since 2002
EMM Europe Media Monitor http//emm.jrc.org

• EMM in active use by all DGs
• 700 sources updated every 10
  minutes
• 3000 email alerts/day
• 7000 active web users
• 100 SMS/day to VIPs
• 350 topic alerts real-time
• 8000 keywords real-time
• 15000 articles/day
• 30 languages
• EMM is the EU fastest impartial news monitor

RNS Rapid news service
State of the World Identify hotspots forgotten
crises
State of the World Country watch
News related to particular person
Monitors all World Countries Derives statistical
indicators and time trends
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JRC Policy Support Example Support to
e-passport interoperability

• Hague Program 2005 Action Plan Coherent
  approach and harmonized solutions in the EU on
  biometric identifiers and data
• Integrate biometric identifiers in travel
  documents, visa, resident permits, EU citizens
  passports information system
• Tests of conformity of passports issued by Member
  States
• Tests of interoperability of electronic passports
  and readers
• Evaluation of performance of biometric
  identificaiton systems
• Technical support to the development of standards

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JRC Policy Support Example JRCs contribution
to GMES

• Long-standing experience in support to a range of
  Community policies requiring GMES related
  information, e.g. in the areas of
• Natural Resources
• Agriculture
• Environment
• Development andHumanitarian Aid
• Global Change
• Civil Protection
• Security

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JRC Policy Support Example Food Safety and
Quality

• Method development, validation harmonisation
  (e.g. food allergen BSE tests)
• Measurement evaluation programmes (e.g. heavy
  metals)
• Proficiency testing (e.g. acrylamide)
• Monitoring data bases (e.g. European wine)
• Reference materials
• Help desk in emergency cases
• 6 Community Reference Laboratories (DG SANCO)
• Feed additives
• Mycotoxins
• Poly-aromatic hydrocarbons
• Heavy metals in food and feed
• GMOs in food and feed
• Food contact materials

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JRC Policy Support Example Combating Illicit
Trafficking of Nuclear Materials

• Since 1993 300 confirmed cases of illicit
  trafficking of radioactive and nuclear material,
  215 of them in the past 5 years
• About 400 samples analyzed annually (including
  for ESO and IAEA, samples from Irak Iran)
• A workshop on the application of mobile
  identification techniques to combat illicit
  trafficking was organised together with INRNE in
  Sofia on 6-9 December 2005

JRC support

• Techniques for identifying nature of seized
  material, assess risk, locate origin
• Contacts with law enforcement agencies and
  nuclear forensics development
• Assistance to NMS and CC (advice, training,
  equipment supply)
• Maintain / update database on commercial nuclear
  materials

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JRC Policy Support Example JRC activities
related to GMOs

• CRL for GMOs in food and feed
• a consortium of 120 national GMO enforcement
  control laboratories from EU Member States and
  partner countries
• Development of science-based validation and
  harmonization of analytical tools for the
  traceability and authentication of GMOs and their
  derived products
• Examples corn (Bt10),rice (LL601, Bt63,), .
• Scientific support to Commission in formulating
  regulations concerning labelling of GM-bearing
  food, detection limits of non-authorized GMOs
• Studies on co-existence measures for GMO-bearing
  and non-GMO crops, on performance of GMO-bearing
  crops 2008 host of the European Co-existence
  Bureau for studying co-existence measures of
  selected crops
• Production of reference materials for GMO-bearing
  food and feed

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JRC Policy Support Example The Generation IV
International Forum (GIF)

• Generation IV is a framework for international
  co-operation in research for a future generation
  of nuclear energy systems on which 10 founding
  countries agreed.

FR
US
CH
UK
CA
EUR
JP
BR
KR
AR
SAR

• Euratom adhered to the GIF Charter on 30 July
  2003 and signed the Framework Agreement in 2006

• GIF supports research and development of
  concepts for one or more nuclear reactor systems
  that should
• provide competitively priced and reliable
  supply of energy
• address satisfactorily nuclear safety,
  waste, proliferation and public perception
• concerns
• The JRC is entrusted with the co-ordination of
  the Community contribution to GIF

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Crisis Response Recent Examples
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JRCs quest for scientific excellence

Publications
Awards
Formation of a New Dynamical Mode in -Uranium
Observed by Inelastic X-Ray and Neutron
Scattering M. E. Manley, M. Yethiraj, H. Sinn, H.
M. Volz, A. Alatas, J. C. Lashley, W. L. Hults,
G. H. Lander, and J. L. Smith Physical Review
Letters 96(12),
Impacts of Atmospheric Anthropogenic Nitrogen on
the Open Ocean R. A. Duce et al. SCIENCE VOL 320
16 MAY 2008
Bt corn in Spainthe performance of the EUs
first GM crop Manuel Gómez-Barbero, Julio Berbel
Emilio Rodríguez-Cerezo NATURE
BIOTECHNOLOGY VOLUME 26 NUMBER 4 APRIL 2008
POLICYFORUM Climate Assessment Whats
Next? Frank Raes and Rob Swart 30 NOVEMBER 2007
VOL 318 SCIENCE
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JRC Present Collaboration with Iceland

• 1 Collaboration Agreement
• The Icelandic Radiation Protection Institute is
  part of the REMdB
• (Radioactivity Environmental Monitoring)
  Implementation of Euratom
• Treaty together with the JRC Institute for
  Environment Sustainability.
• 2 Institutional Networks
• The Environment and Food Agency is partner in the
  Combustion and
• Industry Expert Panel Network together with the
  JRC Institute for
• Environment Sustainability.
• The Icelandic Radiation Protection Institute is
  partner in the
• Radioactivity Environmental Monitoring Network
  together with the
• JRC Institute for Environment Sustainability.
• 12 Competitive Activities with all JRC Institutes.

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JRC contacts whom to contact, where?
NCP (Iceland) Mr Lydur Skuli Erlendsson lydur_at_ra
nnis.is
Contacts in the JRC institutes IPSC
carmelo.addabbo_at_ec.europa.eu anne-marie.morrissey
_at_ec.europa.eu IES arwyn.jones_at_ec.europa.eu ca
rla.dal-molin_at_ec.europa.eu IHCP
nicholas.nicholson_at_ec.europa.eu IPTS
paolo.barbosa_at_ec.europa.eu EI
roger.hurst_at_ec.europa.eu IRMM doris.florian_at_ec.eur
opa.eu ITU victor.esteban-gran_at_ec.europa.eu
Contacts in the JRC - Brusselsgiancarlo.caratti_at_
ec.europa.eu azza.kassis_at_eceuropa.eu jana.machajo
va_at_ec.europa.eu milena.raykovska_at_ec.europa.eu ole-
peter.ostermann_at_ec.europa.eu
Gateway www.jrc.ec.europa.eu
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