The European Commission’s

science and knowledge service

Joint Research Centre

A modern JRC

in a modern Commission

Vladimír Šucha,

Director-General

DG JRC Role: facts & figures

• 6 locations in 5 Member States

• 1500 core research staff, out of around 3000 total staff

• 83% of core research staff with PhDs

• Research Fellows and visiting scientists

• 42 lаrge scale research facilities, more than 110 online databases

• More than 100 economical, bio-physical and nuclear models

• Independent of private, commercial or national interests

• Policy neutral: has no policy agenda of its own

• 30% of activities in policy preparation, 70% in implementation

• Transversal service - cuts across policy silos

DG JRC Role: facts & figures

• Focus on the priorities of the Commission (80% of activities co-designed with partner DGs)

• Work for more than 20 policy DGs and several project teams

• Expertise in a wide range of areas from economic and financial analysis through to energy and transport, health, environment and nuclear safeguards

DG JRC Role: facts & figures

DG JRC role in the policy cycle

Source: John Young, Overseas Development Institute

Monitoring and Evaluation

Agenda Setting

Decision Making

Policy Implementation

Policy Formulation

Civil

Society

Commission

Private Sector

Council /

Member

States

European

Parliament

Cabinet

• 40-50% of JRC publications belong to the top 25% most cited

publications

• Up to 23% belong to the top 10% most cited publications

• Up to 3% belong to the top 1% most cited publications

DG JRC Scientific Excellence

Vision:

"To play a central role in creating, managing and making sense of the collective scientific knowledge for better EU policy."

Mission:

"As the science and knowledge service of the Commission our mission is to support EU policies with independent evidence throughout the whole policy cycle."

Vision and Mission Statements

Organisational development

Modernisation of DG JRC

• A strategic partner at the core of the Commission

• Fully policy-relevant and world class knowledge production

• Priorities driven knowledge and competence management

• One JRC – anticipating emerging issues, understanding complexities and bridging silos

• People-centric, leaner and more efficient organisation

- Structuring knowledge both thematically and geographically

- Knowledge Centres – structured around policy challenge,

demand-driven

- Competence Centres – bring together in-house expertise on

analytical tools for any policy area

- Country-based knowledge

Knowledge and Competence Management

Knowledge Centres

Competence Centres