Job creation has been a key focus of recovery in Europe since the 2008 Economic Crisis. This report assesses the potential of EU funding programmes to create high-quality jobs.
In 2009, RAND Europe conducted a literature review in order to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of peer review for grant funding. This report presents an update to that review to reflect new literature on the topic, and adds case studies exploring peer review practice at six international funders.
Terrorist attacks cause emotional trauma but there are other impacts, from economic losses for EU member states to the psychological effects on witnesses. This study explored the costs inflicted by terrorism within the EU between 2004 and 2016.
This report defines and describes the updated Vitality Age model. While maintaining the core concepts of the original Vitality Age model, the new version expands the number of input factors used in the analysis, builds on a more comprehensive and consistent data source, incorporates age-related mortality, improves handling of missing data, and substantially expands the possibilities for sensitivity analysis of results.
This report looks at the practical applications of citizen science in research. It includes advice for designing and implementing citizen science projects and how to evaluate success.
This paper prepared for the European Platform for Investing in Children (EPIC), sets out the different EU programmes and funds available to fight poverty among children in the EU and promote their social inclusion and general well-being.
This Perspective summarises the results of a table-top exercise that examined factors that could potentially upset Arctic cooperation in the 2020 decade, focusing on overlapping extended continental shelf claims; increased maritime activity; and maritime incidents. This exercise confirmed the solidity of Arctic cooperation, but also identified potential "wild cards" that could make negotiated solutions more difficult to reach.
In recent years, Indonesia has re-conceptualised its identity as a maritime nation whose livelihood both derives from and depends upon the sea, evidenced by President Joko Widodo's Global Maritime Fulcrum and Sea Policy proposals. This study identifies the threats and priority areas for Indonesia in the maritime security domain as a first step in an overall assessment of capability requirements and gaps
RAND Europe ...on a page describes the characteristics of our research, people and organisation. It explains why our clients rely on us to be a trusted source for objective policy research and analysis in Europe.
This RAND Europe study, conducted in collaboration with the Saatchi Institute, examines organisational capacity assessment. This study explores how organisational capacity is understood and measured in a range of organisations, before analysing how culture and communication drive organisational performance and offering an initial outline of a diagnostic tool for organisational capacity.
Education stands at the forefront of policy agendas as children grow up in an increasingly complex and connected world. A focus on education looks at the core areas in education, detailing RAND Europe's expertise and work in the sector.
The findings of this European added value assessment (EAVA) suggest that it is necessary to revise the current legislative EU framework for liability rules and insurance for connected and autonomous vehicles.
This study uses a stated choice experiment to quantify travellers' willingness to pay for a tolled tunnel in Copenhagen. Discrete choice models are used to quantify travellers' value of travel time savings. The discrete choice models take account of systematic heterogeneity in terms of traveller and trip characteristics and random heterogeneity.
We propose a list of questions that researchers and policy-makers can use when writing or critiquing policy in order to bring broader perspective to the forefront of their analysis of the problem.
Communities of Practice (CoPs) are self-organising and self-governing groups of people who strive to be better practitioners by developing and spreading new knowledge and practices. CoPs are seen as valuable means to improve collective learning in health and social care, but measuring their effect is difficult. This scoping study collected data to assess the feasibility of, and best approach to, a full-scale evaluation of CoPs.
The evidence suggests that school-based interventions are effective at reducing school exclusion immediately after, and for a few months after, the intervention.
This study describes how cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment is carried out in practice across Europe.
UK recommendations to provide shorter prescriptions are not substantiated by the current evidence base.
This infographic sets out the existing evidence from the literature around the importance of the international mobility of researchers to the UK and UK-based researchers.
Cybersecurity has risen to become a prominent issue of national and global security for governments and international organisations worldwide. A focus on cybersecurity looks at the issues and details RAND Europe's expertise and work in the area.
After recruitment issues had led to the cancellation of a randomised controlled trial on the impact of incentivised pay on teaching in the UK, RAND Europe conducted a follow-up investigation exploring the reasons behind the recruitment difficulties. The study found that a combination of teachers being resistant to the principle of financial incentives and a lack of awareness about the trial were key reasons why recruitment had been unsuccessful.
RAND Europe's annual review, Spotlight on 2017, features some of the objective research and analysis we do to help policy and decision makers keep pace with an ever-changing world.
The paper should assist the transport modellers and policy makers in choosing appropriate trip frequency modelling tools which best suit their problem.
This study supports Impact Assessment on the review of Directive 91/553/EEC. RAND researcher Barbara Janta conducted the case study on the UK's compliance as part of the review.
This report looks at the cost of non-Europe in relation to procedural rights and detention conditions.
