Latest News & Upcoming Events

2020 COIN Open Days

24 Feb 2020

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).

Commission launches new edition of the Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor 2019

8 Oct 2019

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.

JRC Week on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards 2019

29 Jul 2019

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.

Behind the numbers:JRC audits two major indexes related to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

8 Jul 2019

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).

Asia-Europe Sustainable Connectivity Scientific Conference (AESCON)

27 Jun 2019

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.

 

Launch of the Regional Gender Equality Monitor

6 Mar 2019

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.

Commission launches online tool to measure how well Europe and Asia are connected

22 Oct 2018

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.

JRC Week on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards - 05/09 November 2018

14 Aug 2018

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.

Cultural and Creative Treasure Hunt in Toulouse

3 Jul 2018
The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, in cooperation with Toulouse Tourism Office and the Toulouse based Tourism School, will be proposing a graphical interactive preview of Cultural gems app at the EuroScience Open Forum in Toulouse “Science in the City” Festival.

Cultural Gems in Europe: tell us what you think!

25 May 2018

We are carrying out a short survey to better assess the needs and interests of potential users of "Cultural gems" Mobile Web App. Your contribution will help us shape an App that fits your needs.

JRC Seminar

8 May 2018

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

2018 Workshop: The Impacts and Methodology of Indicators and Scoreboards

20 Mar 2018

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.

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.

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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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’.

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.

Past News & Events

Publication of paper on “Characterizing and comparing innovation systems by different 'Modes' of knowledge production: a proximity approach”

25 Oct 2014

JRC Scientist, Sjoerd Hardeman, publishes a paper entitled “Characterizing and comparing innovation systems by different 'Modes' of knowledge production: a proximity approach” in the journal “Science and Public Policy”.

12th JRC Annual Seminar on Composite Indicators

22 Sep 2014

The 12th JRC Annual Seminar on Composite Indicators will be based on the lessons learnt from the JRC audits that were carried out on more than 60 well-known composite indicators, upon request of their developers.

Global Innovation Index 2014

18 Jul 2014

This report studies the occupational mismatch phenomenon, focusing on mismatching in both education and skill. Using PIAAC we calculate several indicators of overeducation and overskilling, investigating how the different measures are related to each other and the differing effects of the mismatch on several European countries. We find that mismatches in education and skill respectively measure two separate domains, and that the majority of the European population is either overeducated or overskilled, but not both.

The Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool

1 Jul 2014

Poverty is relative and multidimensional. Given its complexity, multidimensional nature and the connections with history, context, politics and power, understanding and measuring poverty is by no means straightforward. A recent study co-authored by the JRC and the University of Berkley and published at the Journal of Development Studies, discusses the participatory creation of the Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool (MPAT).

Validating Environment and Gender Index

15 Jun 2014

JRC Scientist, Michaela Saisana PhD Eng. Senior Scientific Officer and Project Leader of the Composite Indicators (COIN) team, gives a presentation on "Validating Environment and Gender Index" at the Gender Summit EU 2014. 

New tool to address rural poverty

3 Apr 2014

The JRC supported the United Nations' International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to develop the Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool (MPAT), launched today at the UN IFAD premises in Rome. MPAT is an innovative tool for assessing, understanding and addressing rural poverty. It provides data that can inform all levels of decision-making by providing a clearer understanding of rural poverty at household and village level.

JRC assesses the Rule of Law Index

18 Mar 2014

Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece and Romania rank at the bottom of EU countries in terms of their nation’s adherence to the rule of law from the perspective of how ordinary people experience it. Five EU countries ‒ Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden ‒ rank among the top 10 best performers in the Rule of Law Index, launched on 5 March 2014 by the World Justice Project (WJP) and audited by the JRC.

Policy uses of composite indicators

1 Feb 2014

JRC head of the Unit of Econometrics and Applied Statistics (EAS), Andrea Saltelli participates at the European Framework for Measuring Progress (e-Frame) Conference 2014 with the presentation “Policy uses of composite indicators”, prepared with Michaela Saisana.

JRC contributes to the Yale and Columbia Environmental Performance Index 2014

25 Jan 2014

The latest edition of the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) was presented and discussed on January  2014 during the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos. The EPI is released biannually since 2006 by Yale and Columbia Universities, in collaboration with the Samuel Foundation and the WEF. The EPI ranks how well countries perform on high-priority environmental issues concerning the policy areas of environmental health and ecosystem vitality.

Monitoring the harmful consequences of several drugs in the USA

21 Jan 2014

The JRC and the University of South Carolina co-authored a study developing a series of indices to measure the drug consequences in the USA over the last decade. It is the first set of indices developed in a US context that summarises the multidimensional phenomenon of drug-related consequences over a multi-year period. The JRC was invited to underpin all the analytical work, given its renowned expertise on composite indicators for policy making. The study was published by the Office for National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) of the White House.