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Joint Research Centre (JRC)

Institution overall role: 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. It has 2 750 scientific and technical personnel in 7 scientific institutes in 5 sites in Italy, Belgium, Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands:

  • Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (BE)
  • Institute for Transuranium Elements (BE & IT)
  • Institute for Energy and Transport (NL & IT)
  • Institute for the Protection and the Security of the Citizen (IT)
  • Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IT)
  • Institute for Health and Consumer Protection (IT)
  • Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (ES)

Role in research, knowledge transfer & innovation: The JRC is the European Commission’s in-house science service. There are 18 research areas, one of these is Rural Development Agriculture and Fisheries. A number of other research areas are also relevant to rural development (competitiveness and innovation, information society, environment and health, climate change, food and feed safety and quality, etc). As a European institution conducting and collaborating with partner organisations in scientific research, the JRC provides evidence-based contributions for EU policy development through a wide range of applied fields.

Priorities/objectives of rural development research, knowledge transfer & innovation: The JRC is independent of any national, private or industry interest and aims to provide sound and relevant scientific input for the conception, development, implementation and monitoring of EU policies. Overall, JRC has seven priority themes: towards an open and competitive economy; development of a low carbon society; sustainable management of natural resources; safety of food and consumer products; nuclear safety and security; security and crisis management; reference materials and measurements.

Institutional networking linkages: The JRC collaborates with organisations sharing a common interest in specific research areas – over 650 partner organisations in around 60 institutional networks worldwide.

Research & innovation links: The JRC Project Browser is the central repository of annual Work Programme Action descriptions of the JRC. The browser allows users to search by actions included in the Multi-annual Work Programme since 2004.

Homepage: https://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/index.cfm

Contact details:
European Commission
Joint Research Centre (JRC)
Internal and External Communication Unit
SDME 10/78,
B-1049 Brussels
Belgium
Tel: +32 2 29 74181
E-mail: jrc-info@ec.europa.eu