The About the European Commission class content covers the Commission's structure, how it works internally and together with other institutions, and provides contact details for each Department and executive agency.
The Aid, Development cooperation, Fundamental rights class content covers how the EU provides humanitarian and development aid around the world and promotes fundamental rights such as dignity, equality and solidarity.
The Business, Economy, Euro class content gives an overview of the European Commission's activities in this field, from economic performance by country to the EU coordination of the economic and fiscal policy. It includes a section on the banking and finance sector and content about the Euro.
The main objectives of the Education class content are to support EU countries' activities around education, encourage cooperation and promote geographic and occupational mobility.
The Energy, Climate change, Environment class contains information covering the issues, overall targets, international cooperation, implementation, monitoring and reporting. It also provides standards and tools related to energy, climate change and environment.
The EU regional and urban development class covers information on urban and regional development topics, together with details of investment and development and information on how they work; strategy and policy; and budget transparency.
The main objectives of the Food, Farming, Fisheries class content are to display information about products, statistics, food quality and safety, together with production methods and technology.
The main objective of the Funding, Tenders class content is to provide clear, easy-to-understand information on how EU funding works; funding available; how to apply and the results of funding.
The main objective of the Jobs at the European Commission class content is to provide information about vacancies, processes and events related to working for the European Commission. Much of this content sits on the website of the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO).
The main objective of the Law class is to provide clear, easy-to-understand information on the EU law-making process, EU legislation, and enforcement and allow users to contribute to law-making and give them practical information on matters related to law.
The Live, work, travel in the EU class content provides practical information on living, working and travelling in Europe, linking mainly to pages on the Your Europe portal (with a focus on residency, employment and consumer rights).
News, Publications, Events groups content on ec.europa.eu/info which is aggregated and displayed contextually, ie on the relevant page(s).
The Research and innovation class content covers the EU's research and innovation policy and current research and innovation funding opportunities. It also provides access to project databases and success stories, and information about networking and partnership opportunities.
The content in the Statistics class addresses users' interest in statistics as well as forecasts. It also provides information about how the EU is performing on policies such as addressing economic imbalances and sustainable development.
The Strategy class content covers how the European Commission approaches policy development and contributes to these goals; how priorities are set and how the strategy relates to the political priorities; how the policy decision-making process works.
The structure of the EC branded web presence is based on extensive external user research with stakeholders (DGs and people using EC websites) between September 2014 and February 2015.
Top-level architecture
The top-level architecture of the European Commission website comprises 15 content classes. The classes are the highest level of menu labels, giving access to all information provided on the EC branded web presence.
The classes are:
- About the European Commission
- Aid, Development cooperation, Fundamental Rights
- Business, Economy, Euro
- Education
- Energy, Climate change, Environment
- EU regional and urban development
- Food, Farming, Fisheries
- Funding, Tenders
- Jobs at the European Commission
- Law
- Live, work, travel in the EU
- News, Publications, Events
- Research and innovation
- Statistics
- Strategy
Process to define the 15 classes
The structure of the EC branded web presence is based on extensive external user research with stakeholders (DGs and people using EC websites) between September 2014 and February 2015.
See Process to define the 15 classes: original research for more information on the class definition process.
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