Within the context of the European Forum on Science and Industry, the JRC together with the European Committee for Standardization (CEN), the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC), and the European Commission Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs have launched an initiative to bring the scientific, industry and standardisation communities closer together entitled "Putting Science into Standards".
As part of this initiative, workshops are held to facilitate screening of emerging science and technology areas to identify those where concerted research and standardisation activities are required to enable innovation and promote industrial competitiveness. The fourth workshop of this series will be held on 22-23 September 2016 at the JRC's Petten (NL) site on the subject "Driving Towards Decarbonisation of Transport: Safety, Performance, Second life and Recycling of Automotive Batteries for e-Vehicles".