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The materials 'common house'

 

Specific challenge: The fragmentation of research efforts has long been identified as a major European weakness. A significant part of national R&D budgets is spent without substantial coordination across the Union, a significant waste of resources at a time of shrinking funding possibilities.

A dynamic structure, following materials research and innovation across the European Union, is called for. The goal is to make Europe a more coherent system, and also to help in better coordinating future EU materials activities with those in Member States, Associated Countries, industry and academia, to avoid duplications and gaps.

Scope: Support to a monitoring system and a forum to debate developments and needs, identify gaps and opportunities, establish priorities in order to create a sound, authoritative, consensual, science-based, economy pushed, society-driven Europe-wide knowledge base of materials science and engineering. Synergy with or use of present structures and existing sch