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The main targets of the Competitive and Sustainable Growth Programme are:

• to produce, disseminate and use the knowledge and technologies needed to design and develop processes and produce high quality, environment- and consumer-friendly products which will be competitive on tomorrow's market;

• to help increase economic growth, maintain and/or create new jobs in Europe;

• to sustain the continuing innovation and modernisation efforts of manufacturing, processing and services enterprises (including SMEs) so as to improve their competitiveness;

• to support the development and implementation of Community policies that enable competitive and sustainable development.

This goes hand in hand with the development of related services, including transport, which are economic, safe and protective of the environment and quality of life as well as with the development of quality materials, reliable measurement and testing methods and the optimal use of specific research infrastructures.

Competitiveness and sustainability require a "systems approach" in which research activities support the development of coherent, interconnected and eco-efficient industrial and social systems, responding to both market and social needs.