research_agenda_june_2020.pdf
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… made protection from organised and transnational crime one of the EU’s top priorities. The nature of crime today necessitates new forms of police cooperation across regional, national and European borders as well as potentially increased powers in foreign affairs and defence. Democracy, politics and decision making in the EU Here the focus lies on systematic analysis of the role played by institutions at various levels of governance – Euro- pean, national, regional and local – as well as the … challenges are global in nature, Europe, with its existing institutional and supranational framework, is in a unique position to take the lead on a number of issues: en- ergy transition and CO2 reduction, intergenerational equity, the EU emissions trading scheme, the legal framework for climate change, the funding of social entrepreneurship and innovation, and the determinants and conditions for impact investing by both small-scale and institutional investors. With respect to the latter, the … applications are claimed to have facilitated political uprisings, solutions to scientific problems and the development of new television storylines. The validity of such claims is sometimes questioned, with commentators highlighting the dangers of online hoaxes, misinformation and loss of privacy. The focus in this research area is on how social media (also referred to as Web 2.0, user-generated content and crowdsourcing) are used to support participation in knowledge production in different …