CORDIS Archive

External Advisory Groups

"External Advisory Groups" (EAGs) provide independent advice to the Commission on the content and directions of the research to be carried out under the key actions of the Fifth Framework Programme. Following a call for applications, 17 EAGs have been established. View the list of groups and their members.

The following provides access to the first reports of the External Advisory Groups that are currently available. These are contained on the European Commission's (DG Research) Europa server.

• Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources

• • Pivotal role of the "Cell Factory" Key Action
    Position paper by the "Cell Factory" External Advisory Group

  • Advice for the year 2000 workprogramme

  • GMO Research in Perspective
    Report of a workshop held by External Advisory Groups of the "Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources" Programme

  • Entrepreneurship: Networking of biovalleys in Europe
    Report of a Workshop organised under the aegis of the External Advisory Group (EAG) of the Cell Factory Key Action

  • Advice for the year 1999 Work Programme

  • The Cell Factory Key Action
    2002 Final report by the External Advisory Group

• User-friendly Information Society

• Competitive and Sustainable Growth

• • Aeronautics for Europe - A Partnership for Research and Technology and European Growth; Position paper by the Aeronautics External Advisory Group

  • Second opinion of the External Advisory Group for the key action "New perspectives for aeronautics" on revision of the workprogramme, priorities and evaluation criteria for the 15 December 1999 Call for Proposals

  • Second Opinion of the External Advisory Group to the Key Action "Sustainable mobility and intermodality"

  • Opinion of the External Advisory Group for the Key Action "Innovative products, processes and organisation"

  • First Opinion of the External Advisory Group to the Key Action "Sustainable mobility and intermodality"

  • First Report to the Commission of the External Advisory Group for the Key Action "Land transport and marine technologies"

  • First report to the Commission of the External Advisory Group for the Key Action "New perspectives for aeronautics"

• Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development

  • EUR 19790 E-WOG Working Paper "Sustainable and Affordable Energy for the Future : Priorities for EU Energy RTD"
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  • Opinion of the External Advisory Group on the Mid-Point Revision of the Work Programme

  • Opinion of the External Advisory Group for the key actions "Sustainable Management and Quality of Water" and "Sustainable Marine Ecosystem"

  • Opinion of the External Advisory Group for the Key Action "Global Change, Climate and Biodiversity"

  • First Report to the Commission of the External Advisory Group for the Key Action "City of Tomorrow and Cultural Heritage"

  • First report to the Commission from the External Advisory Group on Key Action "Cleaner Energy Systems" and "Economic and Efficient Energy"

• Improving Human Research Potential and the Socio-Economic Base

  • Opinion on the Draft Workprogramme for the Key Action "Improving the socio-economic knowledge base"

• Research and Training in the Field of Nuclear Energy

• • External Advisory Group on the Key Action "Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion" (EAG-FU)
    Final Opinion of the EAG-FU (1998-2002)
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  • Open letter to the Research Council - Commission Proposal on FP6 (22 October 2001)
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  • Opinion of the External Advisory Group on "Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion" on European Fusion Research (March 2001)
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  • EUR 19790 E-WOG Working Paper "Sustainable and Affordable Energy for the Future : Priorities for EU Energy RTD"
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  • Opinion of the External Advisory Group-FISSION (EAG-FISSION): - Advice on the Implementation of European Support to Nuclear Fission Related Research in the Framework of the European Research Area (ERA)
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  • Opinion of the External Advisory Group-FISSION (EAG-FISSION): - Advice on the Review of the Work Programme 2001
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  • Opinion of the External Advisory Group-FISSION (EAG-FISSION): - Advice on the Review of the Work Programme 2000

  • First Report of the External Advisory Group on "Nuclear Fission"

  • Opinion of the External Advisory Group (EAG) for the Euratom Key Action "Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion" on the Commission's Draft Work Programme concerning Fusion RTD in FP5