The European Commission s science and knowledge service

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1 The European Commission s science and knowledge service General Assembly of the Estonian Academy of Sciences 6. December 2017, Tallinn Maive Rute Deputy Director-General Joint Research Centre

2 3% disagree 97% of climate scientists agree with AGW 55% think the Science is unsettled or don't know 45% think there is a scientific agreement on AGW Source and image credit: US data, J. Cook, S. Lewandowsky

3 Image credit: pixelrobot - Fotolia

4 Andrea Izzotti - Fotolia

5 Crisis in science Nature magazine illustration by David Parkins, September 2015 Image credit: Nature Magazine

6 Policy cycle: from theory to practice Policy Formulation Cabinet Agenda Setting Decision Making Member States Civil society Monitoring and Evaluation Policy Implementation Business community

7 Science v/s Policy

8 Dana Fradon, Filing cabinets labelled, New Yorker, 7 March 1977

9 Image credit: Bryan Bedder

10 Title Facts speak for themselves

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15 2% 2% 3% 8% 4% Science for Policy 7% 33% JRC and EC priorities 1. Jobs, growth and investment 2. Digital single market 3. Energy union and climate 4. Internal market 5. Deeper and fairer economic and monetary union 7. Justice and fundamental rights 13% 4% 8. Migration 9. Stronger global actor 10. Union of democratic change 24% Stronger knowledge management capacity (JRC priority)

16 JRC Role: facts & figures 386 million Budget annually, plus 62 million earned income Independent of private, commercial or national interests 30% of activities in policy preparation, 70% in implementation 125 instances of support to the EU policy-maker annually More than 100 economic, bio-physical and nuclear models JRC 6 locations in 5 Member States: Italy, Belgium, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain Policy neutral: has no policy agenda of its own 42 lаrge scale research facilities, more than 110 online databases 83% of core research staff with PhD's Over 1,400 scientific publications per year

17 JRC Scientific Excellence 40-50% of JRC publications belong to the top 25% most cited publications Up to 23% belong to the top 10% most cited publications Up to 3% belong to the top 1% most cited publications

18 JRC Scientific Excellence Environment Sicence mistry, Genetics and olecular Biology xicology utics aterial Science Biochemistry, 15 Genetics and Molecular Biology 10 Pharmacology, Toxicology0 and Pharmaceutics Energy Material Science Earth Environment and Planetary Sciences Sicence Engineering Earth and Planetary Sciences Physics and Astronomy Agricultural and Biological Sciences JRC Physics and Astronomy Agricultural and Biological Sciences World average JRC Top 15 institutions by N of citations (lowest value) World average TOP 15 institutions Top by 15 N institutions of citations by N of citations (highest value) (lowest value) TOP 15 institutions by N of citations (highest value) Chemistry Energy Engineering Chemistry

19 Knowledge Centre on Migration and Demography Knowledge Centre for Territorial Policies Knowledge Centre for Disaster Risk Management Competence Centre on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards Competence Centre on Microeconomic Evaluation Competence Centre on Text Mining and Analysis

20 Advising Policymakers Engaging with the public Communicating scientific knowledge Managing Collaborative Expert communities SKILLS for better evidenceinformed policies Understanding policy and science Monitoring and evaluation Synthesising Research Interpersonal skills

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23 Thank you! EU Science Hub - Joint Research Centre Joint Research Centre EU Science Hub