INRAE and JRC renew their collaboration for four years

Illustration INRAE and JRC renew their collaboration for four years © INRAE Today in Brussels Stephen Quest, Director-General of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) and Philippe Mauguin, CEO of the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE) renewed their strategic partnership by signing a four-year agreement to continue their collaboration in the fields of agriculture, climate change, environment, health and food systems, with a view to support efficient public policies. The signing of this new collaboration agreement continues and expands on the previous agreement between JRC - the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission - and INRAE, which was signed in 2018 . T he successful implementation and fruitful collaboration of the five past years contributed to deliver concrete solutions for policymakers and society, such as the development of the EU Soil Observatory or the improvement of methods for the meta-analysis of scientific publications to measure and monitor the impacts of agricultural systems on environment and ecosystems, in order to better advise policymakers.