Web intelligence for measuring emerging economic trends: the drone industry — 2022 edition

The ‘Web Intelligence for Drones’ project targeted the development of a method to retrieve information from the web on businesses based in EU countries that have their main activity in the sector of civil unmanned aerial systems (UAS) also known as ‘drones’. The study presents a novel methodology and the tools developed to identify drone companies through the web and to extract company-relevant information from their websites. The method was developed with a perspective of generalisation in mind (across countries and across economic sectors) wherever possible. It has already been fully applied to three European countries (Spain, Italy and Ireland), and the results are presented in this report. [+]

Sustainable development in the European Union — Monitoring report on progress towards the SDGs in an EU context — 2022 edition

Sustainable development is firmly anchored in the European Treaties and has been at the heart of European policy for a long time. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by the UN General Assembly in September 2015, have given a new impetus to global efforts for achieving sustainable development. The EU is fully committed to playing an active role in helping to maximise progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. This publication is the sixth of Eurostat’s regular reports monitoring progress towards the SDGs in an EU context. The analysis in this publication builds on the EU SDG indicator set, developed in cooperation with a large number of stakeholders. The indicator set comprises around 100 indicators and is structured along the 17 SDGs. For each SDG, it focuses on aspects that are relevant from an EU perspective. The monitoring report provides a statistical presentation of trends relating to the SDGs in the EU over the past five years (‘short-term’) and, when sufficient data are available, over the past 15 years (‘long-term’). The indicator trends are described on the basis of a set of specific quantitative rules. This 2022 edition also analyses the COVID-19 pandemic’s impacts during 2020, 2021 and the beginning of 2022 that are visible in Eurostat’s official statistics. [+]