06 - My secondment at the JRC Seville
Hello guys, I think that it’s time to properly talk to you about my secondment (or research visit) at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Seville (Spain). This visit started in November 2018 and lasted seven months. It was an amazing experience both professionally and personally. To summarise this experience, I thought that I could answer four questions: What is the JRC? The Joint Research Centre (JRC) is the European Commission's science and knowledge service. The JRC aims to provide EU and national authorities with independent scientific evidence and support to help tackle big challenges facing society. To this end, the thousands of scientists working at the JRC create, manage and make sense of knowledge, and develop innovative tools for policymakers. The JRC’s headquarters are in Brussels (like most of the EU institutions) but the JRC also has research facilities in Geel (Belgium), Ispra (Italy), Karlsruhe (Germany), Petten (the Netherlands), and Seville (Sp