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Past Event
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LocationPrague / online
The EUROMOD Annual Meeting and Research Workshop took place from 28 to 30 September 2022 in Prague, co-organised by the Czech EUROMOD National Team based at the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute (CERGE-EI) and the EUROMOD team at JRC. The events gathered more than 100 participants, including JRC staff, representatives from partner DGs, members of the 27 EUROMOD National Teams (i.e. the teams providing technical support for the development and update of the model) and several invited experts.
The goal of the Annual Meeting is to take stock of the development and maintenance of EUROMOD, plan the coming work, and exchange views on the future development of the model. The main sessions of the Meeting covered an overview of the work carried out in 2022; uses of EUROMOD for both country-specific analysis and EU-wide initiatives, highlighting the continuous importance of the model to support EC policies; statistics on external use, access to the data and training attendance; recent and planned software updates; developments of the model and its extended functionalities; input data; and the EUROMOD Indirect Tax Tool. The Annual Meeting ended with presentations of EUROMOD-related research carried out by National Teams and the JRC.
The Research Workshop gathered academic and institutional EUROMOD users, to share mainly their model-based work and get feedback from the EUROMOD community. The presentations were grouped in four sessions, covering topical issues such as macroeconomic challenges in microsimulation modelling, indirect taxation in light of the energy crisis and the green transition, the redistributive role of welfare policies and labour markets, and non-EU model developments. Additionally, several experts were invited to participate in a round table on “Distributional Impact Assessments using microsimulation methods”, a timely debate in view of the adoption of an EC Communication on the topic on the very same day.
On the side, CERGE-EI organised a special event in the framework of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU, chaired by Klára Kalíšková (CERGE-EI) about the importance of evidence-based policy-making, using EUROMOD as illustrating example. Speakers included Štěpán Jurajda (Deputy Minister for R&D of the Czech Government), Karel Bláha (Deputy Minister for Legislation of the Czech Government), Salvador Barrios (Head of Unit, JRC), Anne Clemenceau (Head of Unit, Eurostat), Christoph Schwierz (Head of Unit, DG REFORM) and Loukas Stemitsiotis (Head of Unit, DG EMPL).
Overall, a successful event that allowed most of the EUROMOD community to gather in person again after holding the meetings online during the last two years. Congratulations to everyone who made it possible!
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