- Contributes to European Commission priorities
- A global Europe: Leveraging our power and partnerships
- A new era for European Defence and Security
- A new plan for Europe’s sustainable prosperity and competitiveness
- Protecting our democracy, upholding our values
- Supporting people, strengthening our societies and our social model
- Sustaining our quality of life: Food security, water and nature
Portfolio overview
Upscaling the use of sustainable and circular materials and products will be the basis for a strong future-proof EU economy. Securing more affordable energy and resources internally, including critical raw materials, will make the EU more independent, and therefore more resilient and competitive.
This portfolio aims to provide solutions to help shape this new reality. Scientific and technical insight can support this shift, by helping to develop new advanced materials to widen the range of policy options, by sustaining effective and smart implementations, but also by giving consumers confidence in these innovative and sustainable products and business models.
Objectives
Develop methods to evaluate product sustainability and safetyCreate new tools to measure and verify the sustainability, circularity and safety of a broad range of products, materials, value chains and waste management options during their life cycles.
Promote green productsMake green products the norm through research and scientific support for policy, including public procurement, while ensuring consistency between the various policy instruments.
Provide knowledge for clean and circular industrial policyImprove the knowledge base to support Green Deal policy implementation and inform the Clean Industrial Deal and circular economy policies.
Foster EU competitiveness through sustainable productionInform policy options to promote sustainable and efficient production and consumption systems, to improve EU competitiveness and open strategic autonomy, for example, through developing single market instruments.
Improve raw materials knowledge and its accessibilityStrengthen knowledge of raw materials, their criticality, circularity and use across sectors and technologies.
Make such knowledge accessible and policy-relevant, for example through the JRC’s Raw Materials Information System.
