Information on IMT projects
A synopses of RTD projects selected under the second call for proposals under the EU's Industrial Materials and Technologies research programme (BRITE-EURAM) has recently been published. The call for proposals opened on 15 December 1996, and covered the whole work programme except sub-area 3A: Aeronautics Technologies, which was covered in a separate call in 1996. A total of 939 proposals were submitted under this call and the publication provides information on the 242 projects selected. The Commission contributed a total of ECU 400 million to fund these projects, matched by a similar amount from industry. The projects selected covered Industrial Research (200) and Basic Research (42). The publication gives details of the objectives and content of each project, contract details including starting date, duration and EU contribution, contact details for the coordinator for each project and a list of the partners involved. The projects are divided into three categories covering production technologies, materials and technologies for product innovation and technologies for means of transport.