DG ECFIN and the JRC are interested in listening to research pitches on the following topics:

• Sustainable food labels that assess food produce in terms of its economic, environmental and social sustainability. The JRC would be interested in welcoming knowledge on labelling initiatives in the food domain or other relevant domains;
• The impact of climate change on debt sustainability. DG ECFIN would integrate such knowledge in its Fiscal Sustainability Report;
• Multilevel governance in the Transition to Sustainability in the Aerospace Industrial Ecosystem, specifically on the role of European regions and Member-States in the transition to a sustainable Aerospace industry. The JRC would be interested in applying such knowledge on designing policies and instruments to incentivise the green transition of the sector;
• Disaster Risk Management and National Budgetary Frameworks to inform DG ECFIN’s policy recommendations on how to integrate climate disaster risk in prudential budgetary practices;
• How a circular economy may reduce dependence on foreign imports and the role of harmonised waste collection in unlocking economies-of-scale in the EU single market for secondary raw materials, to complement research ongoing at the JRC;
• The role of monetary policy in mitigating climate change and promoting the transition to a carbon-neutral economy and society, that DG ECFIN would integrate in its own research on the topic;
• Green Budgeting, further developing the work began by DG ECFIN, the IMF and the OECD;
• Green Bonds and Green Financial Markets, that would inform the European Commission’s participation in international fora such as G7/G20;
• The Macroeconomic aspects of climate change, that shall reinforce policy knowledge and inform forthcoming policy recommendations issued by DG ECFIN;
• Micro data methods to distinguish green and brown jobs in order to assess adjustment needs in the green transition in EU countries, a research topic of interest to DG ECFIN;
• The distributional consequences of the green transition, also of interest to policymakers at DG ECFIN.

Each Research Pitch should last no more than 4 min and use at most a single static slide. The organisers of the Annual Research Conference shall invite no more than 15 pitches, implying your application may be rejected due to this limitation.

For more information about the event and the application process, please consult the source page of this call: https://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/arc2022/call_for_research_pitches.html