Experts comment on the Energie programme
A need for clearer differentiation between short and medium to long term research and for increased concentrating and focussing in the work programme are among the areas most recently highlighted for attention by the external advisory group (EAG) to the European Commission's non nuclear energy research programme (Energie). During discussions to make recommendations on the mid-point revision of the Energie work programme, the EAG also suggested a need to: - revise the structure to the work programme, with the introduction of a certain number of 'targeted actions; - propose a certain number of topics which could be chosen as future 'targeted actions'; - revise the weighting of selection criteria for project evaluation. - discuss selection criteria for the evaluation of projects. In addition, the EAG recommends the following horizontal areas should be strongly encouraged within the general part of the work programme: - management of carbon dioxide emissions and climate change; - proposals exploiting the interrelation and synergies between information technologies and the electricity grid; - socio-economic research related to energy technologies and their impact; - international cooperation, coordination with Member State research programmes, and EU wide research networks.; - pre-normative research of interest at EU level.