News and Events archive 2016

14th JRC Annual Training on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards & 2016 Annual meeting of Community of Practice.

18 Sep 2016

The training (26-28 September 2016) will offer the lessons learnt from the JRC assessments on more than 100 well-known composite indicators and scoreboards.

Towards meaningful performance budgeting: How to proceed after 60 years of failure?

17 Apr 2016

Why meaningful performance budgeting is hardly successful? What are the limitations of performance measurement? How to make the best of performance budgeting? 
“What’s the use of measuring speed if you don’t go in the right direction”

Performance-based budgeting: towards a new methodological approach

4 Apr 2016

How to puzzle out the new challenges of PBB at EU level? How to set up key-performance indicators? What is the role of stakeholders?
“It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance."

Composite Indicators and Scoreboards: Sharing Best Practices

1 Feb 2016

The purpose of this half day event is to bring together policy analysts and researchers from the European Commission, international organisations, think tanks and the academia, to foster a practical exchange of experiences across a wide range of key policy areas that are monitored through composite indicators and scoreboards. The event will also see the launch of the Competence Centre on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards (COIN).

Performance-based budgeting

4 Jan 2016

Lessons from academic research and practices in the public sector

Launch of the Small Business Act country Fact sheets 2016

28 Nov 2016

The European Semester 2016 Spring Package encouraged EU Member States “to ensure an environment that is conducive to investment and to remove barriers and bottlenecks to investment”.

3rd ENCATC Research Award on Cultural Policy and Cultural Management

15 Jun 2016

ENCATC, the European network on cultural management and policy*, launches the call for applications for the 3rd ENCATC Research Award on Cultural Policy and Cultural Management (the JRC is a member of the Steering Committee of the Award).

Simplifying the complex: informing and monitoring policies with composite indicators

3 Feb 2016

On 3 February 2016, the European Commission launched a competence centre to bring together the policy and scientific expertise available in-house to ensure their highest quality.