MET - European High Technology Market

An international two-day European High Technology Market, MET, will be held in Strasbourg, France, from 17 to 18 October 1996. Organized by the Comité Richelieu, with support from the Commission, its purpose is to encourage cooperation between small and medium-sized high-tech businesses and major European industrial groups.

Over 150 SMEs, 18 European relay organizations and 22 large corporations from 18 European countries will meet at MET to find new, competitive and innovative partners to participate in a wide range of European RTD programmes, and to find new customers and subcontractors.

Technological sectors represented at the event will include robotics, telecommunications and detection systems, measurement and testing, optics and optronics, electronics and micro-electronics, engineering and fluid physics, chemicals and energy, structural materials, simulation, and security.

The following European RTD programmes will be represented:

- Advanced Communications Technologies and Services (ACTS);
- Information Technologies (ESPRIT);
- Standards, Measurement and Testing (SMT);
- Industrial and Materials Technologies (BRITE/EURAM);
- Telematics Applications;
- Environment and Climate;
- Non-Nuclear Energy (JOULE/THERMIE);
- Transport;
- Marine Science and Technology (MAST);
- EUREKA initiative;
- European Space Agency programmes;
- EUCLID/EUROFINDER European Armaments R&D programmes;
- Bi- or multilateral military and civilian R&D programmes.
For further information, please contact:

Comité Richelieu
Mr. Bruno Accettone/Mr. Philippe Grélard
98 avenue du Général Leclerc
F-92100 Boulogne
Tel. +33-1-48259944; Fax +33-1-48259902