Zajednički istraživački centar (Joint Research Centre - JRC)

INFORMATIVNI DAN OBZOR 2020. Društveni izazov 2 & 5, Biotehnologija, Marie Sklodowska

Curie akcije, Zajednički istraživački centar (JRC) Agronomski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu

30. siječnja 2014. godine Lana Žutelija

• President José Manuel Barroso/28 Commission Members

- DG Environment; - DG Mobility and Transport; - DG Agriculture and Rural Affairs; - DG Climate Action; - DG Energy… etc.

• Commissioner Geoghegan-Quinn: Research, Innovation and Science - DG Joint Research Centre (JRC) - DG Research and Innovation

• JRC Director-General: Vladimir Šucha

JRC in the EC

• to provide EU policies with independent, evidence-based scientific and technical support throughout the whole policy cycle

• to perform direct research: JRC is the European Commission's in-house science service and the only DG executing direct research; providing science advice to EU policy

• to serve society, stimulate innovation, support legislation

JRC’s Mission and Role

• Established 1957

• 7 institutes in 5 countries

• 2856 permanent and temporary staff as of Feb 2012

• 1467 scientific publications in 2011

• 245 key elements of support to the EU policy-makers in 2011

• Budget: €381 million annually, plus €67 million earned income

JRC Facts & Figures

JRC Institutes (1)

• IRMM: Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (Geel, Belgium) http://irmm.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

• ITU: Institute for Transuranium Elements (Karlsruhe, Germany, and Ispra, Italy) http://itu.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ • IET: Institute for Energy and Transport (Petten, The Netherlands, and Ispra, Italy) http://iet.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ • IPSC: Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen

(Ispra, Italy) http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ • IES: Institute for Environment and Sustainability (Ispra, Italy) http://ies.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ • IHCP: Institute for Health and Consumer Protection (Ispra, Italy) http://ihcp.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ • IPTS: Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (Seville, Spain) http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

JRC Institutes (2)

• Composed of high level representatives from each Member State and the FP7 Associated Countries (40 countries)

• Provides advice on strategic / management issues

• Its opinion is required on all EC decisions about JRC

• Members ensure a strategic link with their countries

• HR JRC BoG member:

dr.sc. Zdenko Franić, Institut za medicinska istraživanja i medicinu rada, Zagreb

JRC Board of Governors

• JRC is refocusing its activities to provide needed scientific support to the Europe 2020 policy priorities

• key policy priorities: - energy and transport - environment and climate change - agriculture and food security - health and consumer protection - information society and Digital Agenda - safety and security (incl. nuclear in the Euratom

programme) • cross-cutting and multi-disciplinary approach • JRC is working increasingly with Member States, industry

and the science community in the EU and internationally

JRC key priorities

• JRC collaborates extensively with over 1 000 public and private organisations, institutions and expert groups in more than 250 major networks worldwide

• Partners include: - Government departments; Government laboratories; Industry;

Universities and research institutes

• The JRC Provides: - Cooperation and partnerships with key organisations - Support to enlargement - Training and mobility of researchers - Access to scientific infrastructures - Support to European Research Area policies - Support to standardisation

JRC: A networked organisation

• Strengthening cooperation with EU Member States & FP7 Associated Countries:

Visits to Member States and FP7 Associated Countries

High-level meetings with Ministries & Permanent Representations Ambassadors (science and other portfolios: energy, climate, economy, finance)

Support to EU Council Presidencies

Strengthening links with Board Members/Participants

Strengthening links and cooperation with the JRC NCPs

JRC & the EU MS & FP7 AC

• Strengthening cooperation with the scientific community:

Collaboration with the European science academies: - EASAC (European Academies Science Advisory Council) - Letter of Intent (signed

on 18 October 2011), joint events and publications - Member States’ Science Academies (e.g. Scientific support to the Danube

Strategy collaboration)

Collaboration with major RTO’s (research and technological organisations):

- CEA, CERN, CNR, EMBL, ENEA, ESA, Fraunhofer, Helmholtz Association, IMEC, INRIA, Max Planck Innovation, NPL, NCBiR, Sintef, Tecnalia, TNO, Tubitak and VTT

Collaboration with Technology Transfer Offices (TTO): - The European TTO Circle is an initiative of the JRC aiming at connecting

Technology Transfer Offices of large European public research organisations (PROs)

JRC & the Scientific Community

• JRC - raising awareness, informing, promoting

• Information and tools for JRC NCPs:

JRC Country leaflets

Other JRC publications

JRC website: http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/

JRC events

• Conference: Research Cooperation between the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and Croatia (Zagreb, Croatia, June 5-6, 2013)

JRC Information Day & Young Researchers’ Event

>200 participants

JRC info & promo activities

• The JRC in Horizon 2020 will strengthen expertise and operational capability in:

Policy analysis: to allow cross-sectoral investigation of policy options (i.e. for the low-carbon society)

Economics: providing an integrated service covering both scientific-technical and macro-economic aspects

Anticipation & foresight: contributing to the Commission’s capacity to develop timely policy proposals, development of strategic intelligence on trends in science, technology and society (i.e. foresight study on standardisation)

Impact assessment: providing scientific evidence to support policy options

Modelling: making the Commission less dependent on outside suppliers for vital scenario analyses (i.e. energy, transport & climate change)

JRC outlook on Horizon 2020

• Focus on new JRC initiatives:

European Science and Industry Forum http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/index.cfm?id=6660

Scientific Support to the Danube Strategy http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/cooperate/danube/index_en.cfm

Smart Specialisation http://ec.europa.eu/research/regions/index_en.cfm?pg=smart_specialisation

New JRC initiatives

• Created by the JRC to continue the dialogue & cooperation on the scientific needs of industry in a regular & structured way

• Relevant economic sectors concerned by this initiative are:

- Clean transport; Health; Energy; Nanotechnologies; Environment and climate change; Food security; Water Danube strategy; Eco-Industry and biotechnologies; ICT; Behavioural and humanity social sciences

• Over 200 participants from public institutions, industry and adequate networks

• Forum open to interested stakeholders

• Regular newsletter on relevant activities and upcoming events

EU Science and Industry Forum

• Building on its expertise, the JRC aims to provide a strong scientific support to the EU Strategy for the Danube Region proposed by the EC in December 2010 and endorsed by the European Council in June 2011

• 4 vertical priorities: - Environmental protection; Irrigation & agriculture development;

Navigability; Energy production • 1 horizontal priority: - European governance & ‘Smart Specialisation‘

Danube Water Nexus Danube Air Nexus Danube Land & Soil Nexus Danube Bio-energy Nexus

Danube reference data and service infrastructure

Danube Strategy (1)

• High-level conference on Scientific support to the Danube Strategy (24 April 2012, Brussels)

• Scientific meeting on the Scientific Support to the Danube Strategy (21-22 March 2013, Ispra, Italy)

Croatian Expressions of Interest: 30

(10 institutions - IRB, IMI, EIHP, EIZG, AGR, PBF, PMF, FSB, FFZG, OIKON)

Croatian participation in the meeting: 12

(6 institutions - IRB, IMI, AGR, PBF, FSB, FFZG)

• High-level event co-organised by the European Commission and the Government of the Slovak Republic (16 May, 2013,

Bratislava)

Danube Strategy (2)

• Concept which implies concentrating resources on key priorities in a region based on the region's economic potential rather than spreading efforts and investments too thinly

• It aims to focus human and financial resources on a few globally competitive areas in order to boost economic growth and jobs

• Important element of ex ante conditionality for Regional Policy in the Multiannual Financial Framework (2014-2020)

• Smart specialisation is a great opportunity for Member States and regions to develop and implement Research and Innovation strategies, boost economic development and synergies between EU cohesion funds & Horizon 2020

Smart Specialisation (1)

• Smart Specialisation Platform (S3) - launched by the JRC in cooperation with DG REGIO in June 2011 - aims to support regional policy makers, implementing bodies and

Commission services in designing, implementing regional programmes in the field of research and innovation

- 2 main action types: Support to policy-makers through the release of the 'RIS3 Guide‘

which was written together with DG REGIO and other policy actors Development of mutual learning tools, incl. the informal peer-reviews

(workshops where regions submit their strategies to be peer-reviewed

- Registration on the Platform is open to all EU regions & MS - S3 newsletter - S3 website: http://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

Smart Specialisation (2)

• Policy Anticipation: - Sustaining European Soil: The JRC has developed robust databases supporting the

European Soil Thematic Strategy and as a result created three soil atlases, unique collections of maps illustrating the varying patterns of different soil types occurring across Europe. One of the resulting outputs is the first ever European Atlas of Soil Biodiversity.

- New developments in nanotechnology: The JRC is working closely with policy

makers providing science and research-based policy support for improving regulation of nanotechnology. It also hosts the largest repository of nano reference materials, has developed an internationally available database containing test and measurement results used by the OECD, Member States and industry. In February 2011, the JRC released the world's first certified reference material for nanoparticles, based on industry-sourced materials.

- INSPIRE - Harmonising environmental data worldwide: The JRC is the

technical and scientific coordinator of INSPIRE, the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe, which provides the knowledge needed for mitigating natural and man-made hazards to make more efficient use of natural resources, to better protect the environment and to adapt to climate change.

JRC priorities & developments (1)

• Policy implementation: - Making the EU's electricity grids smarter: The JRC has identified and analysed the

vulnerabilities of MS’ electricity transmission systems for the implementation of a Directive on Critical European Infrastructures.

- Calculating greenhouse gas emissions from biofuel crops: The JRC developed

a new methodology to estimate changes in global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions due to biofuel crops. This work underpinned the Commission Report required for the implementation of the Renewable Energy Directive.

- Detecting GMOs in food and feed: The JRC provided the "Compendium of

Reference Methods for GMO analysis", a reference report listing 79 GMO detection methods validated according to international standards in support of the Regulation on official food and feed controls.

JRC priorities & developments (2)

• Ad-hoc policy support: - Nuclear forensics support to Member States: The JRC supports safeguard

authorities by providing environmental sampling and measurements techniques that are essential in the detection of non-declared nuclear activities. The JRC ‘clean lab’ is used for the measurement of uranium enrichment in particles founded in ‘swipes’ taken by IAEA or Euratom inspectors across the globe.

- Responding to crises: GDACS (the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System) provides near real-time alerts about natural disasters around the world. In addition, the JRC provided support to rescue operations by carrying out a rapid damage assessment based on the analysis of very high resolution satellite imagery.

- European Flood Alert System and European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS): JRC provides essential information to prepare for floods in Europe by complementing the information of national hydrological services with novel probabilistic flood forecasting information up to 10 days in advance. EFFIS comprehensively addresses forest fires in Europe providing EU level assessments from pre-fire to post-fire phases, thus supporting fire prevention, preparedness, fire fighting and post-fire evaluations.

JRC priorities & developments (3)

• Joint FP7 and future H2020 proposals

• Institutional Networks

• Collaboration Agreements

• Enlargement & Integration Action (E&IA): Workshops, Study Visits, Summer Schools - Croatian Experts Grantholder Positions Seconded National Experts (SNE) Positions http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/index.cfm?id=1720 (E&IA 2014)

• Memorandum of Understanding JRC - Croatia (under H2020?)

• JRC initiatives (Danube Strategy, Smart Specialisation)

• JRC Board of Governors

• EPSO CAST: job opportunities (contract agents)

JRC & Croatia - Cooperation (1)

• FP7 Environment projects: COPHES: European coordination action on human biomonitoring (Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health)

ECLAIRE: Effects of Climate Change on Air Pollution Impacts and Response Strategies for European Ecosystems (National Meteorologocal and Hydrological Service)

PERSEUS: Policy-oriented marine Environmental Research in the Southern EUropean Seas (Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries)

PEGASO: People for Ecosystem Based Governance in Assessing Sustainable Development of Ocean and Coast (Priority Actions Programme Regional Activity Centre)

CLIM-RUN: Climate Local Information in the Mediterranean region: Responding to User Needs (National Meteorologocal & Hydrological Service)

JRC & Croatia - Cooperation (2)

• FP7 Research Infrastructures projects: SEADATANET: A Pan-European infrastructure for ocean and marine data management (Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries)

SEADATANET II: SeaDataNet II: Pan-European infrastructure for ocean and marine data management (Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries)

• FP7 Energy projects: ATEST: Analysing transition planning and systemic energy planning tools for the implementation of the energy technology information system (Energy Institute “Hrvoje Požar”)

ECCO: European value chains for CO2 (INA industrija nafte d.d.)

JRC & Croatia - Cooperation (3)

• FP7 NMP projects: SMART-NANO: Sensitive MeAsuRemenT, detection, and identification of engineered NANOparticles in complex matrices (Ruđer Bošković Institute)

• FP7 KBBE projects: BACSIN: Bacterial abiotic cellular stress and survival improvement network (Ecoengineering Ltd.)

IFAAM: Integrated Approaches to Food Allergen and Allergy Risk Management (Srebrnjak Children’s Hospital)

• FP7 INCO projects: WBC-INCO.NET: Western Balkan Countries INCO-NET (Ministry of Science, Education and Sports)

JRC & Croatia - Cooperation (4)

• JRC Institutional Networks:

ESBN (European Soil Bureau Network) - Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb

ENGL (European Network of GMO Laboratories) - member: Ministry of Health and Social Welfare - Croatian National Institute for Public Health - associated labs: - GMO quantification and risk assessment Unit, Croatian National Institute of Public Health - Seed testing Laboratory, Institute for Seed and Seedlings, Osijek

REM data bank (Radioactivity environmental monitoring) - Croatian Radiation Protection Association

JRC & Croatia - Cooperation (5)

• Croatia - JRC Collaboration Agreements:

Collaboration Agreement with the Croatian Radiation Protection Association - Ruđer Bošković Institute on ICE2004: Intercomparison exercise for 2004

Memorandum of Understanding with State Office for nuclear safety of Croatia on EURDEP- European Radiological Data Exchange Platform since 13/05/2008

Memorandum of Understanding with the Croatian Meterological and Hydrological Service on the European Flood Alert System (EFAS)

JRC & Croatia - Cooperation (6)

• JRC Enlargement & Integration Action Study Visits: JRC Ispra (16/10/2012): „Development of a low carbon society & sustainable management of natural resources“ JRC Ispra (5/2/2013): „Health and Consumer Protection”

• JRC Enlargement & Integration Action Workshops: JRC Ispra (4-5/10/2012): „Countering obesity by combining behavioural insights and novel ICT tools“ Istanbul, Turkey (11/10/2012): TÜBİTAK-JRC Joint Workshop on „Food Safety” JRC Ispra (25-26/10/2012): „Environmental & socio-economic issues of unconventional energy in Europe” TUBITAK Marmara Research Centre (27/2/2013): JRC-TUBITAK Joint Workshop on „Smart Grids“ Zagreb, Croatia (9-10/4/2013): „Trans fatty acids (TFAs) in diets: health and legislative implications”

JRC & Croatia - Cooperation (7)

Vacancies (recently announced vacant positions/calls for expression of interest - 29.1.2014.) • Grantholders [+] Ph.D. students (Cat.20) (2) [ ] Post-doc researchers (Cat.30) (0) [+] Senior researchers (Cat.40) (1) • Traineeships [+] Trainee positions (8) • Other categories [ ] Contract Staff members (0) [+] Auxiliary Contract Staff members (2) [+] Seconded National Experts (1) [ ] Temporary Agents (0) [ ] Permanent officials (0)

JRC current vacancies

Kontakt

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Obzor 2020. nacionalna osoba za kontakt

- Društveni izazov 2: „Sigurnost hrane, održiva poljoprivreda i šumarstvo, istraživanje mora, pomorstva i unutarnjih voda, i bioekonomija“

- Industrijski prioritet „Biotehnologija“

- Društveni izazov 5: „Klimatska aktivnost, okoliš, učinkovitost resursa i sirovine“

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