12 Jun 2019Our Call for Proposals in the #DLT4Good Pilot Project is now over. But the EU Policy Lab is also supporting the EIC Horizon Prize #EICHorizonPrize 'Blockchain for Social Good'. the European Commission will award 5 prizes of EUR 1 million each to innovators that use Blockchain technology to develop decentralized, scalable, efficient and high-impact solutions to bring positive social change.
17 May 2019On May 2- 3 we got to be part of the first UN Interagency Innovation Bootcamp, sponsored by the recently established UN Innovation Network. This took place in the context of #DLT4Good, our new project dedicated to the co-creation of a European ecosystem of Distributed Ledger Technologies for Public and Social Good.
2 Apr 2019The EU Policy Lab is kick-starting another project in the Blockchain space! This new project is supported by the European Parliament, and will run in cooperation with The Next Generation Internet Unit of DG CNECT (Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology).
29 Jan 2019The EU Industry Days 2019 will focus on key industrial challenges such as sustainability, digitalisation, investment and globalisation. The event, on 5-6 February, will demonstrate how EU industrial policy benefits European citizens and provide input for future policy making. This will gather around 1,500 participants from across Europe and beyond, including stakeholders representing industry, trade unions, national and regional authorities, and civil society. You can read more about the EU Industry Days 2019 on its
8 Jun 2018On May 24 we organised the final event of #Blockchain4EU at the Berlaymont, European Commission headquarters in Brussels. We gathered high level EU policy makers such as the Director-General of the Joint Research Center (JRC), Vladimir Šucha, and several stakeholders already engaged with, potentially interested in, or working in sectors that may be impacted by Blockchain and other DLTs. It was an opportunity to present the project's main outputs, with the launch of our Final
7 May 2018The Final Event of #Blockchain4EU will take place on May 24 2018 at the European Commission headquarters, Berlaymont Building (Schuman Room) in Brussels. This event will gather policy makers, Blockchain stakeholders and others interested in the development or uptake of Blockchain and other Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) for non-financial / industry sectors. Livestream of the event will be available through the Joint Research Centre's EU Science Hub webpage. Registration is mandatory to enter the Berlaymont building. Furthermore, there
25 Apr 2018The final event of the project #Blockchain4EU: Blockchain for Industrial Transformations will take place on May 24 2018 at the Berlaymont (Schuman Room), Brussels. We will gather Blockchain communities and other stakeholders interested in the development or uptake of Blockchain and other Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs), counting also with the presence of high level policymakers as Lowri Evans, DG GROW’s Director-General, and Vladimir Šucha, DG JRC’s Director-General. Throughout a full-day with multiple sessions, our main
3 Apr 2018On March 15 we organised the third workshop of our project #Blockchain4EU: Blockchain for Industrial Transformations. As #Blockchain4EU is now coming to its end, this workshop was the last in our larger series of participatory and stakeholder engagement activities. You can read about our first workshop in July here and also have a look at our second workshop in November here. Project #Blockchain4EU: Blockchain for Industrial Transformations is a forward looking sociotechnical exploration of existing,
18 Dec 2017On November 15-16 we organised the second workshop of our project #Blockchain4EU: Blockchain for Industrial Transformations, as part of a series of participatory and stakeholder engagement activities taking place until February 2018. You can read about our first workshop here. This workshop took place at FabLab Brussels of Erasmusschogeschool, and we wish to thank its coordinator Ann Peeters for kindly hosting us and also to the students for their interest and support. The project #Blockchain4EU:
6 Nov 2017The project #Blockchain4EU: Blockchain for Industrial Transformations, currently coordinated by the Joint Research Centre’s EU Policy Lab in cooperation with DG GROW, is fully supporting the exploration of the opportunities and challenges for the development and uptake of Blockchain and other Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) within EU industrial and business contexts, with key focus on the innovation and competitiveness capacity of SMEs. Within its scope, the European Commission has just published a new Call ‘Blockchain