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European Commission - Joint Research Centre - Institute for Prospective Technology Studies (Spain)

IPTS is one of the 7 scientific institutes of the EC's JRC

Acronym: EC-DG JRC-IPTS

Since 1994, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) promotes and enables a better understanding of the links between technology, economy and society. Its mission is to provide customer-driven support to the EU policy-making process by developing science-based responses to policy challenges that have both a socio-economic as well as a scientific/ technological dimension.

The mission of IPTS is to provide customer-driven support to the EU policy-making process by developing science-based responses to policy challenges that have both a socio-economic as well as a scientific/technological dimension.

The Institute's main competences consist in providing policy option analysis and policy impact assessment, analysing the socio-economics of new technologies, delivering techno-economic tools and platforms to our customers, and managing information exchange and consensus-building among policy-makers and stakeholder on highly complex techno-economic issues (something that we call "bureau services").

The Institute's activities mainly contribute to the conception and development of EU policies, but some IPTS projects also support the monitoring and implementation phases of the policy cycle. The research focuses on policy challenges of strategic importance to the European Union. Its work is undertaken, mainly, at the request of other Directorates General of the European Commission. In addition in recent years several assignments have been carried out for the European Parliament. IPTS collaborates closely with the other Institutes of the Joint Research Centre and multiple partners across Europe.

Website: http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

Address:
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies. C/ Inca Garcilaso, 3; 41092
Seville
Spain

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