News and Events archive 2017

Launch of the Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor

6 Jul 2017

The first edition of the Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor represents a first step towards creating a better measurement and understanding of how diverse Cultural and Creative Cities behave and perform across Europe. This tool allows monitoring and assessing the performance of 168 ‘Cultural and Creative Cities’ in Europe compared to their peers using both quantitative and qualitative data.
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15th JRC Annual Training on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards & 2017 Annual meeting of Community of Practice.

6 Nov 2017

The training (06-08 Nov) will offer the lessons learnt from the JRC assessments on more than 100 well-known composite indicators and scoreboards.

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Launch of the Social Scoreboard Platform

26 Apr 2017

The Social Scoreboard supports The European Pillar of Social Rights implementation with key indicators tracking major social and employment developments in the EU and the Euro area. It aims to be a tangible, holistic and objective monitoring tool easily accessible and understandable to the citizens.
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European Research Area Progress Report 2016 Published

16 Feb 2017

The newly published European Research Area Progress Report 2016 benchmarks country performance using a set of headline indicators, including the JRC’s ‘Adjusted Research Excellence Index’.

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JRC Supports 2017 Global Talent Competitiveness Index

25 Jan 2017

The JRC has been invited for the fourth time to contribute its statistical expertise to the Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI), which was launched at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos on January 16th 2017.

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