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People are pictured outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium June 14, 2017. Photo by Francois Lenoir/Reuters

Critical Tech Forum: Promoting UK-EU dialogue on the security of frontier technologies and economic security
RAND Europe, in collaboration with the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), facilitated the Critical Tech Forum. The Forum provided a platform for European partners to discuss shared challenges and find ways to improve cooperation, protect key technologies, and strengthen Europe’s economic resilience.
11 Aug 2026
Addressing EU demographic challenges: Supporting large families and single parents
RAND Europe, together with the Institute for Structural Research, explored how EU and member state policies support large families and single-parent households.
17 Jun 2026
Assessment of medical countermeasures-related actions and interventions
RAND Europe is identifying and analysing potential new and existing medical countermeasures (MCMs) and assessing MCM-related actions and interventions to address the EU’s need for actionable intelligence on the availability, supply chains and shortage prevention mechanisms for MCMs.
23 Oct 2025
Cancer Mission Monitoring
RAND Europe researchers will develop and implement a monitoring strategy to assess the progress of the EU Cancer Mission.
01 Aug 2025
Cannapol: A European cannabis policy toolkit
The European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA) commissioned RAND Europe to produce a European cannabis policy toolkit – CannaPol.
28 Jul 2025
Assessment of maritime shipbuilding skills on the Clyde
RAND Europe helped the Clyde Mission enterprise partners and Skills Development Scotland enhance their understanding of the skills gaps and associated issues affecting the maritime sector on the Clyde River.
28 Jan 2025
Exploring AI Governance: Short Reports on Key Issues
Researchers explore artificial intelligence (AI) governance options that the U.S. may consider in light of the EU AI Act, and highlight the need for collaboration between the U.S. and the EU.
20 Nov 2024
Clean energy R&I opportunities to ensure energy security in the EU
RAND Europe and partners assessed current and future energy security challenges of clean energy value chains. Using this analysis, they developed an action plan to mitigate risks and capitalise on strengths and opportunities to ensure EU energy security as it transitions to clean energy technologies.
17 Jul 2024
Financial independence and gender equality in the EU
Being financially dependent on someone else can create and reinforce multiple forms of vulnerability and disadvantage. Through this study, researchers aimed to strengthen the institutional capacity to address gender inequalities in financial independence across EU member states.
10 May 2024
Trafficking human beings in the European Union
At the request of the European Commission and to inform proposals to revise EU legislation, RAND Europe evaluated the 2011 EU directive on preventing human trafficking and outlined priority areas for improvement.
17 Feb 2024
Identifying conflict-affected and high-risk areas for EU importers of minerals
RAND Europe is developing and maintaining an updated list of conflict-affected and high-risk areas to facilitate the calibration of due-diligence efforts made by EU importers of specific metals and minerals.
29 Sep 2023
Online hatred in the EU
RAND Europe researchers examined the different characteristics of online hatred, as well as legal assessments of how online hatred interferes with fundamental rights of victims and the challenges associated with online content moderation.
19 Sep 2023
Study on the factors influencing the uptake of EU-Funded Security Research Outcomes
RAND Europe researchers identified hindering and enabling factors for EU security innovation uptake.
26 Jul 2023
Evaluating the closed coffeeshop chain cannabis experiment in the Netherlands
Researchers examined the possible effects of an experiment to cultivate and deliver quality-controlled cannabis through a closed supply chain for coffeeshops in the Netherlands.
31 May 2023
Assessing the use of new technologies for infectious disease surveillance, prevention and control
RAND Europe is providing research and support for the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) for the assessment of new technologies for infectious disease surveillance, prevention and control.
04 Jan 2023
How the Dutch approached Brexit
An independent evaluation of the Dutch response to the UK withdrawal from the European Union found that the Netherlands fared well in negotiations and preparations, but Brexit's total costs to the Netherlands remain unclear.
19 Dec 2022
Combatting psychological violence against women across the EU
Commissioned by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), researchers conducted a study to help strengthen the institutional capacity of the EU and member states to combat psychological violence against women and coercive control.
19 Jul 2022
Developing future scenarios for the sustainable use of pesticides
There is a complex landscape surrounding pesticide use, which needs to be addressed holistically across all contexts, including political, legal, economic, societal, technological and environmental. The inherent variation across regions must also be considered, in an increasingly globalised context.
12 Jul 2022
Truth Decay in Europe
Using the framework of RAND's original Truth Decay study, which focused on the United States, researchers uncovered evidence for the trends, drivers and consequences of Truth Decay in Europe. As the phenomenon is less pervasive than in the US, however, they also suggest actions to slow its growth.
17 May 2022
New insights into the medical use of cannabis
Researchers are examining the latest developments and available evidence concerning the medical use of cannabis and cannabinoids for the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.
17 May 2022

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