… to provide customer-driven scientific and technical support for the conception, development, implementation and monitoring of EU policies.

The Mission of the Joint Research Centre

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.

www.jrc.ec.europa.eu

IRMM - Geel, BelgiumInstitute for Reference Materials and Measurements

ITU - Karlsruhe, GermanyInstitute for Transuranium Elements

IE - Petten, The Netherlands and Ispra, Italy Institute for Energy

IPSC - Ispra, ItalyInstitute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen

IES - Ispra, ItalyInstitute for Environment and Sustainability

IHCP - Ispra, ItalyInstitute for Health and Consumer Protection

IPTS - Seville, SpainInstitute for Prospective Technological Studies

Structure: 7 Institutes in 5 Member States

~ 2650 staff + 250 competitive~ 330 M€/y budget (+ ~ 40 M€/y competitive income)

Through 4 intertwined instruments:

1. Projects (Institutional Networks, Indirect Actions, Collaboration Agreements)

2. Job opportunities

3. Advanced training courses and workshops

4. Information and awareness actions

How to collaborate with the JRC

Institutional Networks: for harmonisation and validation of methods and measurements, establishment of common standards, provision of scientific and technical support in the implementation of EU legislationJRC collaborates with over 1000 partner organisations in some 100 institutional networks.

Indirect Actions: JRC participates on equal competitive basis in the EU Research Framework ProgrammeJRC is involved in 250 actions, collaborating with some 1000 partner organisations (FP6)

Collaboration Agreements: concern joint research, information sharing and sometimes the exchange of personnel JRC has some 200 operational collaboration agreements with public and private research organisations, universities and national and international bodies

1. Projects (Networks, Indirect Actions, Agreements)

http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/index.cfm?id=2380

• Policy of attracting top scientists and professionals

• Working in multidisciplinary institutes in 5 different countries; wide range of scientific activities

• Multinational, multilingual teams

• Scientific and cultural diversity

• Supporting researcher’s integration

• Welcoming staff from new Member States and Candidate Countries / PCCs Visit:

www.jrc.ec.europa.euwww.jrc.ec.europa.eu/jobs

2. Job opportunities at the JRC

Types of Contract Available at the JRC

• Permanent Staff• Temporary Agents• Contract Agents

• Grantholders • Seconded National Experts• “Enlargement & Integration Action” job positions• JRC Trainees• Other working opportunities

Statutory Staff

Through open competitions launched by the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO), http://europa.eu/epso/

Guided by Staff Regulations.

Non Statutory Staff

Also open to countries associated to FP and Candidate Countries

Grantholders

• Characteristics: For researchers holding a grant from JRC or another organisation

• Access: open calls launched through the website of the JRC Institutes or other granting authority

• Types: Category 20 (for Ph.D Students), Category 30 (for postdocs) and Category 40 (for senior scientists)

• Contract duration: between 3 months and 4 years • Financial conditions: depending on the grants

Seconded National Experts (SNEs)

• Characteristics: – SNEs detached to JRC by public organisation, national authority,

university, institute, etc.– SNEs remain in the service of their employer– Stimulates brain circulation, exchange of knowledge

• Access: Open calls launched through the permanent representations to the EU

• Contract duration: between 6 months and 4 years

• Financial conditions: daily subsistenceallowance of 119,39 EUR/ for each day

“Enlargement and Integration Action” job positions

• Characteristics: – Positions for SNEs published annually under the JRC Enlargement

and Integration Action– JRC reserves 40 positions for SNEs from New Members States, FP

Associated Countries and Candidate Countries– Extensions / Publications

• Access: open calls launched on JRC web-page• Contract duration: 1 year with a possibility to 1 year more

extension• Financial conditions: daily subsistence allowance of 118,92

EUR/per each day plus the salary at home country/organisation

JRC trainees

• Characteristics: – Enables trainees to acquire personal experience or to prepare

university degree – Within the fields of activities of JRC

• Access: open calls for trainees launched through each Institute website

• Contract duration: between 3 months and 12 months • Financial conditions: 963 EUR/month

* European Commission Traineeship Programme http://ec.europa.eu/stages/

3. Advanced training courses and workshops

Goal: to disseminate the results of individual projects and studies and to support Member states in implementation of EU policies

Areas: Food, Chemicals, Environment, Metrology, Agriculture, Energy and Nuclear Safety, etc. areas of competence of the JRC

Statistics:

JRC 2005 2006 2007 2008

Advanced courses and workshops 102 137 86 45

Experts attending 4 020 4 460 3 500 3 000

Gateway: www.jrc.ec.europa.eu

Contacts in the JRC institutes:IPSC carmelo.addabbo@ec.europa.eu

anne-marie.morrissey@ec.europa.euIES arwyn.jones@ec.europa.eu

carla.dal-molin@ec.europa.euIHCP nicholas.nicholson@ec.europa.euIPTS vincenzo.cardarelli@ec.europa.euEI roger.hurst@ec.europa.euIRMM sari.lehto@ec.europa.euITU victor.esteban-gran@ec.europa.eu

Contacts in the JRC - Brussels:ulla.engelman@ec.europa.eu milena.raykovska@ec.europa.eujana.machajova@ec.europa.eu

JRC contacts: whom to contact, where?

Institute for Health and Protection of Citizen• - September (the date is not fixed yet), on BEVABS (European Office for Wine, Alcohol and

Spirit Drinks http://ihcp.jrc.ec.europa.eu/facilities/bevabs.htm )• - 29-30 Sept in Croatia. International Workshop on Harmonisation of GMO Detection and

Analysis for Candidate and Potential Candidate Countries, European Neighborhood Policy Countries and Russia. Organized by the Molecular Biology and Genomics Unit with the support of TAIEX.

• - 10 December, in Ispra, Italy. Enlargement workshop in NanoBiotechnology with special emphasis on Bio/non-Bio interfaces and their role in cell culture and imaging.

• - December, in Ispra, Italy. The 6th annual CYCLEUR network meeting, supported by the Enlargement and Integration Programme, with participation of many cyclotron-operating or user institutions from the EU and Associated States. It will take place over 2 days.

Workshops are announced on the web-site; you can propose your participation to your national JRC contact point (Branka Zizic – Ministry of Education and Science

Branka.zizic@gov.me )

Announcement of upcoming workshops in JRC