The DG JRC promoting collaboration with

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The DG JRC promoting collaboration with
Romanian ST organisations Joint Research
Centre European Commission http//www.jrc.cec.eu.
int
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DG JRC within the EU Institutions
Committee of the Regions
Court of Auditors
The European Parliament
The Council of Ministers
Economic and Social Committee
Court of Justice
The European Commission 2004-2009 (the College
25 Commissioners)
President Jose-Manuel Barroso
Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik
SANCO
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IRMM ITU IES IHCP
IE IPSC IPTS
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JRCs Mission
to provide customer-driven scientific and
technical support for the conception,
development, implementation and monitoring of EU
policies the JRC functions as a centre of
science and technology reference for the EU,
independent of special interests, private and
national
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The structure of the JRC
7 Institutes in 5 Member States ? 2650 staff
? 300 M/y budget ( 40 M/y competitive)

• IE - Petten The Netherlands
• Institute for Energy
• IRMM - Geel Belgium
• - Institute for Reference Materials and
  Measurements
• ITU - Karlsruhe Germany
• - Institute for Transuranium Elements
• IPSC - IHCP - IES - Ispra Italy
• - Institute for the Protection and Security of
  the Citizen
• - Institute for Health and Consumer Protection
• - Institute for Environment and Sustainability
• IPTS - Seville Spain
• - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies

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JRC Work Programme 2003-2006 (1)
3 core competencies Food, Chemical Products and
Health (food safety quality, food chain
consumer protection, GMOs, chemical products,
alternative testing methods, biomedical
technologies, health environment) IRMM, IHCP
and IPTS (mainly) Environment and Sustainability
(air, water soil quality, land resources,
sustainability issues, climate change, ecosystem
monitoring, energy technologies) IES, IE, IPTS
and IHCP (mainly) Nuclear Safety and Security
(waste treatment storage, nuclear
non-proliferation, reactor safety, radiation
monitoring, basic actinide research). ITU, IE,
IRMM and IPSC
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JRC Work Programme 2003-2006 (2)
Horizontal activities Techno-Economic Studies
(technology techno-economic foresight,
statistical methods for analysis of economic
indicators). IPTS Reference Materials and
Measurements (reference materials methods,
certified reference materials, radionuclide
metrology, neutron data measurements).
IRMM Public Security and Antifraud (antifraud
technologies, cybersecurity, technological
natural emergencies, humanitarian aid) IPSC, IES,
IPTS (mainly)
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JRC towards FP7Future Priorities

• Support to the Lisbon Process (digital divide,
  econometric tools, interplay between innovation
  and regulation, standards and references in
  support of growth, )
• Increasing Internal and External security
  (addressing terrorist threats, combating
  proliferation of CBRN, support border control, )
  
• Understanding of the relationship between
  Environment and Health (exposure to harmful
  agents -especially with respect to children-,
  epidemiological studies, public health studies,
  enviro- and toxico-genomics, chemical stressors,
  )
• Sustainable Agriculture (integrated use of
  agricultural resources, protection of the
  agri-environment and of the landscape, social
  issues, monitoring impact of changes in the use
  of the European land, ...)

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JRC Enlargement Integration Action

• Strategic Objectives
• To help the New Member States and Candidate
  Countries take up and implement the EU acquis
  in areas of JRC competence
• To contribute to the development of the European
  Research Area

• Tools
• Workshops training project cooperation
  dedicated temporary positions short visits
• About 100 enlargement workshops/year involving
  some 4000 experts

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JRC Enlargement and Integration Action Five
Intertwined Instruments

• Focus JRC core projects on specific
• Enlargement needs
• Networks and Indirect Actions
• Host experts, research fellows
• Advanced training courses and workshops
• Information and awareness actions

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Increasing JRC collaboration with Romania

• 39 Romanian researchers are currently working at
  the DG JRC institutes within projects of interest
  to JRC and Romania
• 32 JRC networks and projects involve Romanian
  partners covering core competence areas of the
  JRC
• 320 Romanian experts participated in 102 JRC
  specialised workshops in 2005 dealing with ST
  aspects of the EU acquis
• 8 JRC workshops organised in Romania in 2005

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JRC - Project Knowledge System integrates
JRCCORDIS databases
http//projects.jrc.cec.eu.int
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Adrese de web ale institutelor JRC(1)

• Institutului pentru Energie (The Institute for
  Energy IE), Petten, Olanda
• http//ie.jrc.cec.eu.int/
• Institutul pentru Elemente Transuranium
  (Institute for Transuranium Elements - ITU) ,
  Karlshruhe, Germania
• http//itu.jrc.cec.eu.int/
• Institutul pentru Prospectarea Studiilor
  Tehnologice (Institute for Prospective
  Technological Studies IPTS) , Sevilia, Spania.
• http//www.jrc.es/home/index.htm

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Adresele de web ale institutelor JRC(2)

• Institutul pentru   Materiale de Referinta si
  Masuratori ( Institute for Reference Materials
  and Measurements - IRMM),   Geel, Belgia.
• http//www.irmm.jrc.be/html/homepage.htm
• Institutul pentru Protectia si Securitatea
  Cetatenilor ( Institute for Protection and
  Security of Citizen - IPSC) , Ispra, Italia.
• http//ipsc.jrc.cec.eu.int/
• Institutul pentru Sanatate si Protectia
  Consumatorilor (Institute for Health and Consumer
  Protection - IHCP) , Ispra, Italia .
• http//ihcp.jrc.cec.eu.int/
• Institutul pentru Mediu si Durabilitate
  (Institute for Environment and Sustainability -
  IES) , Ispra, Italia
• http//ihcp.jrc.cec.eu.int/

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JRC contacts whom to contact, where?
At the JRC institutes IPSC carmelo.addabbo_at_ec.eu
ropa.eu IES arwyn.jones_at_jrc.it IHCP
nicholas.nicholson_at_cec.eu.int IPTS
adriana.cristoiu_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
JRC, Brussels giancarlo.caratti_at_ec.europa.eu mil
ena.raykovska_at_ec.europa.eujana.smieskova_at_ec.europ
a.eu
Gateway http//www.jrc.cec.eu.int/enlargement
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DG JRC Robust Science for Policy
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