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EU: Common approach to R&D; Policy. Council will make a reality of the European Research Area
26/11/2002
The EU Member States will listen more to each other in the future when national policies for R&D; are being put in place. This is a way of remedying for the fragmentation which is still the picture of the overall research and innovation efforts in Europe, and which is one of the major handicaps for European enterprises in the global competition... read more
Danish EU-presidency opens conference on e-skills in Copenhagen
17/10/2002
Thursday October 17th 2002 the Danish Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Mr. Helge Sander, opened the conference "eSkills Summit 2002". The conference follows an extensive work carried out by the European eSkills Monitoring Group, which in the recent year has been surveying the best practice policies of e-skills in the European Union... read more
European Research gets go-ahead. The five Specific Programmes of the 6th Framework Programme adopted by Council
30/09/2002
The Competitiveness Council today gave the decisive go-ahead for EU's new 17.5 bn € 6th Framework Programme (2002-2006). This means that activities can be launched before the 5th Framework Programme expires by the end of this year... read more
Compromise on bio-ethics achieves broad support
31/07/2002
Final deal within reach on EU's 6th Research Framework Programme (2002-2006)... read more
IT and research ambitions of the Presidency
During the Danish Presidency, the Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Helge Sander, will be the President of two Councils of Ministers: Telecommunications (IT and Tele) and Research. At the summit in Seville last week it was agreed that research will become part of a new council formation designated "Competitiveness", which also includes industry and the single market... read more | 
