COIN

The COIN Open Days are one-day/half-day workshops that bring together researchers and policy analysts from European Union institutions, international organisations, think tanks and the academia with scientists of the European Commission’s Competence Centre on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards (COIN).

On 08 October 2019, the European Commission released the second edition of its Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor, a tool designed to benchmark and boost the creative and cultural potential of European cities, which is vital to driving economic growth and social cohesion.

On November 4-8, the JRC Week on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards will bring together academics, policy makers, data and policy analysts with a common interest in multidimensional indicator frameworks to inform policy making.

With the growing momentum towards the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and ahead of the United Nations High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in New York, two international indexes measuring progress on sustainable development issues were launched in June 2019: the Sustainable Development Goals Index and Dashboards (SDG Index) and the EM2030 Sustainable Development Goals Gender Index (SDG Gender Index).

AESCON is the first scientific conference on Asia-Europe Sustainable Connectivity, bringing together researchers and policy analysts working in the field of international connectivity, globalisation and their impacts on sustainable development, with a particular focus on Asia-Europe connections.

In the occasion of the International Women's Day, DG JRC in collaboration with DG REGIO launched the Regional Gender Equality Monitor, which assesses the level of disadvantage and achievements of women in EU regions. The Monitor in based on two indices. The Female Disadvantage Index measures the difference between the performance of men and women in all EU regions. The Female Achievement Index measures the level of achievement women in a region compared to the region with best performing women.

On 19 October 2018, as a deliverable of the 12th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit in Brussels, the European Commission has presented the ASEM Sustainable Connectivity Portal – an online tool offering a wealth of data on the political, economic and social relationship between the two continents.

The JRC Week on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards is an annual five-day event during which local and international policy and decision makers, academics, think tanks, and practitioners in a wide range of socio-economic fields.

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Promoting Cultural Awareness: The Cross Cultural Competence Learning & Education Research Lab

The purpose of this two-day workshop is to bring together policy analysts and researchers from the European Commission and the academia, to foster a practical exchange of ideas and experiences related to the impacts, uses and abuses of indicators, and to explore the implications for the design of scoreboards and indicator frameworks.

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

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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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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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’.

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.