Ispra hosts the third largest Commission site, it is located at the heart of Europe and it is nearby major transport links.
It offers great facilities and opportunities such as, for instance, the European School of Varese and it has the ambition to provide a conference centre to host meetings with several hundred participants.
Due to its geographical position, the site offers itself as an ideal hub for science diplomacy with focus on the Mediterranean and Danube regions, thus offering new impulses to the EU integration process.
Several entities are present today at EUCAMPUS Ispra: more than 200 staff, in fact, already belong to non-JRC entities such as DG HR, PMO and OIB.
It offers great facilities and opportunities such as, for instance, the European School of Varese and it has the ambition to provide a conference centre to host meetings with several hundred participants.
Due to its geographical position, the site offers itself as an ideal hub for science diplomacy with focus on the Mediterranean and Danube regions, thus offering new impulses to the EU integration process.
Several entities are present today at EUCAMPUS Ispra: more than 200 staff, in fact, already belong to non-JRC entities such as DG HR, PMO and OIB.
Our vision for the future of the Ispra site, already presented in 2018, comprises the following developments:
1. Make the JRC fitter and stronger, focusing on its scientifically based support role. In times of budgetary constraints, the JRC should focus on its historically strong topics combined with a healthy but limited number of innovative topics, ensuring the necessary critical mass to all activities.Reinforcing the scientific capabilities of the JRC as a keystone of the EU policy making process.
2. Free the JRC to focus on its scientific role to underpin policy-making, by entrusting routine tasks, not compatible with the current JRC strategy, under the direct control of policy DGs.
3. Host local antennae of policy DGs at the Ispra site, to build closer connections between policy and science, fostering a more efficient and effective collaboration
4. Consider Ispra as the hosting site of future new structures, enabling synergies with existing and future JRC activities in related areas
5. The Ispra site already hosts a very advanced crisis management infrastructure, and can provide increased resilience through decentralisation and geo-distribution of vital Commission services, thus guaranteeing business continuity in case of extreme events impeding their normal functioning at other major locations,
as we learned during the current Covid-19 pandemic. During the depths of the recent crisis, the Ispra-based staff made a difference thanks to its great operational and organisational capacity, its multiple skills and dedication.
In order to reach these goals we have engaged in discussions at the highest political level. We count on you to give strength to our idea.
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