Science & Policy: What’s on the EU's agenda? October 2014 EUROPEAN COMMISSION JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE Policy Support Coordination International, Interinstitutional and Stakeholder Relations SCIENCE & POLICY: WHAT'S ON THE EU'S AGENDA? 1 October 2014 The JRC's monthly briefing to the scientific community, N° 29 Table of Contents 1. Activities of the European Institutions 3 1.1 European Commission 3 1.2 Council 3 1.3 European Parliament 3 1.4 International Relations 4 2. Conferences & Meetings 5 2.1 European Conferences Meetings 5 2.2 International Conferences 6 3. JRC News 8 Correspondence: Daniele Tagliavia Stakeholder Relations Officer – JRC European Commission, B-1049 Brussels Belgium. Telephone: (32-2) 299 11 11 Office: CDMA 05/194 – Tel. direct line +32 2 29-93204 Email address: [email protected] 2 1. Activities of the European Institutions 1.1 European Commission Date Event Subject TRADE – Communication regarding the regulation of product 1 October College Meeting coming from Equatorial areas ECFIN – Last economic developments Communication from the Commission to the European 8 October College Meeting Parliament and the Council: Enlargement Strategy and Main Challenges 2014-2015 15 October College Meeting Not yet publicly available 21 October College Meeting Not yet publicly available 29 October College Meeting Not yet publicly available 1.2 Council Date Event Venue/Location 8 October Transport, Telecommunications & Energy Council Luxembourg 13-14 October Agriculture and Fisheries Council Luxembourg 1.3 European Parliament Plenary Sessions Date Event Subject Venue/Location EP vote of consent about the new 20-23 October EP Plenary session Strasbourg College of Commissioners First participation of the new college of 24-27 November EP Plenary session Strasbourg Commissioners 15 – 18 First participation of the new President Strasbourg EP Plenary session December of the European Council Committee Meetings Hearings of the Commissioners-designate 29 September (by the Committees in Brussels – 7 October charge of their respective portfolio) Hearing for Carlos Moedas, Commissioner- Committee on Industry, 30 September designate for Research, Science and Brussels Research and Energy Innovation 3 Hearing for Tibor Navracsics , Commissioner- Committee on Culture and 1 October designate for Education, Culture, Youth and Brussels Education Citizenship Committee on Agriculture 6-7 October Brussels and Rural development 16 October Committee on Fisheries Brussels European Parliament 20-23 October Strasbourg Committee meetings Events organised in the EP European Conference on 15-16 October Public Communication Public Communication EP, Brussels (EuroPcom) Keynote Speaker: Thomas C. SUDHOF, 2013 18 November STOA Annual Lecture EP, Brussels Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology 1.4 International Relations Date Event Venue/Location 30 September Arctic Council - 4th Scientific cooperation Task Force Meeting Tromsø, Norway – 2 October Late September EU-Canada 2014 Summit Brussels (tbc) 5-7 October Science and Technology in Society (STS) forum – 11th Annual Meeting Kyoto, Japan 7 October EU-JAPAN Space Dialogue Tokyo, Japan 13 October 17th EU-China Summit Brussels (tbc) 14-15 October Arctic Futures Sympsosium 2014 Brussels Asia-Europe Meeting – 10th ASEM Summit, theme: "Responsible partnership 16-17 October Milan, Italy for sustainable Growth and Security" 15-16 G20 Leader's Summit 2014 Birsbane, Australia November 3–4 December EU-South Africa Joint Science&Technology Cooperation Committee South Africa 2014 (tbc) EU-Mexico Summit Brussels End 2014 (tbd) EU- RUSSIA space dialogue Brussels 2014 (tbd) EU-Mexico Summit Brussels 16-17 October First Angola – EU Ministerial Meeting Brussels 27 November EU-South Africa Space Dialogue meeting Brussels (tbc) 28 November EU-South Africa Cooperation Council Brussels 1-2 December Meeting of the Joint EU-Australia S&T Cooperation Committee Canberra, Australia 3-4 December EU-South Africa Joint S&T Cooperation Committee South Africa 8-9 December Joint EU-New Zealand S&T Cooperation Committee Wellington, NZL 17-19 April Spring Meeting of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Washington 2015 Monetary Fund (IMF) work 4 4-5 June 2015 The 41st G7 Summit Germany June 2015 EU-CELAC Summit Brussels 2. Conferences & Meetings 2.1 European Conferences Meetings Date Event Organiser Venue/Location Let's (Leading Enabling Technologies for Italian Presidency of the 29 September – 1 Societal Challenges 2014) Conference Council of the European Bologna, Italy October 2014 Union JRC-EASAC launch event of the joint report 30 September on the "Management of spent nuclear fuel JRC-EASAC Brussels and its waste" Social economy and social innovation as 1 October drivers of competitiveness, growth and EESC Brussels social well-being 1 October Ocean Energy Conference Ocean Energy Europe Paris, France Conference: What development EESC, EFNI (European forum 2 October opportunities does the TTIP bring to Sopot, Poland for new ideas) Europe? High level conference on Roma inclusion 2-3 October EC/Council of Europe Brussels on the ground - The ROMACT experience Cohesion Policy and the synergies with the Prague, Czech 2-3 October research and innovation funds: Stairway to JRC – DG REGIO Republic Excellence (launching event of S2E) High Level conference "Future of Europe is 6-7 October JRC, BEPA, Office of CSA Lisbon, Portugal Science" Open Days 2014 – 12 European Week of 6-9 October Committee of the regions Brussels Regions and Cities 5 Conference of the Animal Welfare 7-9 October Intergroup in the European Parliament: Eurogroup for animals EP, Brussels "Act4Animals" Presidency of the Council of 8-9 October Bioeconomy Stakeholder Conference Turin, Italy the EU, EC Nanosafety Cluster and 8-9 October Nanosafety Forum for Young Scientists Siracusa, Italy MODENA COST action World Climate Research Program (WCRP) - European Organisation for the Darmstadt, 13-17 October Climate Symposium 2014 Exploitation of Germany Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) 6th JRC/ DG AGRI annual conference on 21-22 October "Commodity Market Development in JRC, AGRI Brussels Europe – Outlook" Conference: "Disruptive innovative 4 November JRC Brussels technologies: the flying car" Energising cities – energy intelligent cities 5-8 November Eurocities Munich, Geramny of tomorrow" 2014 Conference on Big Data From Space 12 – 14 November JRC, ESA, Satcen Frascati, Italy (BiDS '14) Conference: A new Industrial Policy for European Policy Centre, 12 November Brussels Europe EESC 20th MARS (Monitoring Agricultural Dresden, 19 - 20 November JRC Resources) annual Conference Germany Dresden, 19-20 November 20th Annual GeoCAP Conference JRC Germanyt 20 November Europeaid Infopoint Conference Europaid Brussels European Structural and Investment Funds 20 November Committee of Regions Brussels 2014-2020 Conference JRC / DG EMPL / Centre for Counterfactual Methods for Policy Impact 27-28 November Research on Impact Rome, Italy Evaluation (COMPIE) Conference Evaluation (CRIE) (EESC), the International Confederation of Popular Co-operative banks: a real model to Banks (CIBP) and the 1 December Brussels finance the real economy European Association of Craft, Small and Medium- Sized Enterprises (UEAPME) December SET (Strategic Energy technology)-Plan JRC – European Energy Rome, Italy 2014(tbc) Conference Research Alliance 2.2 International Conferences Date Event Organiser Venue/Location Human Proteome 5-8 October HUPO 13th Annual World Congress Madrid, Spain Organization 5-7 October 11th Science and Technology in Society Science and Technology in Kyoto, Japan 6 (STS) Forum Society (STS) XXIV International Union of Forest Salt Lake City, UT, 5-11 October Research Organizations (IUFRO) World IUFRO United States Congress 2014 10th Congress of the World Association of 5-10 October Theoretical and Computational Chemists WATOC Santiago, Cile (WATOC 2014) 8-10 October Ninth International Life Cycle Assessment American Center for Life San Francisco, of Foods Conference Cycle Assessment USA 13-16 October 16th International Conference on Thin Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Dubrovnik, Films Div. Materials Physics Croatia Darmstadt, 13-17 October Climate Symposium 2014 WCRP / EUMETSAT Germany 19-22 October World Health Summit 2014 WHS Berlin, Germany Austrian Ministry of Transport, Innovation and International Conference ECO-MOBILITY Technology (bmvit) and the 20-21 October Vienna, Austria 2014 Austrian Agency for Alternative Propulsion Systems (A3PS) Conference: ''Continuing Vocational 21 October Training in Eastern Europe: mobilising the ETF and CoR/CORLEAP Kiev, Uckraine demand, enhancing the supply'' NuMat (Nuclear Materials) Conference Clearwater (FL), 26-30 October DoE-INL, Elsevier 2014 USA 31 October – 2 2014 Assembly of Arctic Circle Arctic circle Rekyavik, Iceland November National Institutes for 1st Agrifood Nanotechnology International Agricultural Technology Buenos Aires, 4-6 November Conference (INTA) and Industrial Argentina Technology (INTI) IASS (Institute for Advanced 9-15 November 20th Latin American Soil Science Congress Sustainability Studies) / Cuzco, Peru Global Soil Forum International Union for Conservation of 12-19 November IUCN Sydney, Australia Nature (IUCN) World Parks Congress Intergovernmental 2nd International Ocean Research Oceanographic Commission 17-21 November Barcelona, Spain Conference of UNESCO and the Oceanography Society EASE (European Association of Storage of Energy ESA 19-21 November Global Energy Storage Conference (US Energy Storage