Competence Centres

The JRC manages a number of Knowledge and Competence Centres in priority policy areas. The knowledge and competence centres facilitate knowledge management and promote new collaborative working methods.

Competence Centre on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards

Composite indicators are powerful, practical tools that can help policymakers summarise complex and interdependent phenomena

How to ensure that EU actions and policies are effective?

The Competence Centre on Microeconomic Evaluation aims to improve the EU policy process through ex-post causal evaluation and data-driven microeconomic analysis.

Transparency and coherence in science for policy

When developing evidence-based policies, the Commission Competence Centre on Modelling, hosted by the Joint Research Centre, is a vital source of information.

Competence Centre on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy

Let's team up! This Competence Centre builds capacity on citizen engagement in policy making by providing services, guidance and tools to support socially robust policy.    

With MIDAS, you can learn about the models that drive EU policy

MIDAS is a user-friendly platform for exploring the models used to support evidence-informed policymaking in the EU.

Competence Centre on Technology Transfer

The EU is well-known for being a world leader in scientific research. How can we ensure that research findings are effectively transferred to the market and wider society? 

Megatrends Hub

A knowledge-management platform and an engagement tool for policymakers to help understand potential future developments and support forward-looking thinking.

Making EU's Open Strategic Autonomy future-proof by 2040 and beyond

JRC researchers engaged over a hundred of stakeholders and experts in a foresight process looking at the future of EU’s Open Strategic Autonomy by 2040 and beyond.