How will the EU's R&D boost help meet the Lisbon goals?
23 March 2005 - 23 March 2005
Belgium
On the eve of adoption of the 7th Research Framework Programme, the main financial and legal instrument to implement the European Research Area (ERA), a number of burning issues need to be addressed.
Doubling the EU's research funding, creating European Centres of Excellence, establishing a European Research Council to stimulate basic research and making Europe more attractive for researchers are among the new Framework Programme's strategic aims. But how can European policymakers ensure that a substantial increase in public/private partnerships will serve to boost private R&D spending? How can the financing of basic research at a European level stimulate the work of ERA, and how can the ERA attract the best and most innovative minds?
Above all, will the EU's increased funding for research projects yield the growth and innovation Europe needs if it is to meet Lisbon goals?
Welcome address by Bernhard Marfurt, Ambassador of Switzerland to the EU
Speakers include:,- Janez Potoènik, EU Commissioner for Science and Research,- Thomas Hinderling, CEO, CSEM, Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology
Further information on this event can be found at http://www.friendsofeurope.org/conf_ataglance.asp?ConfId=381&page=home&frame=yes~basFriends(opens in new window) of Europe is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the analysis and wider understanding of European policy issues.
Doubling the EU's research funding, creating European Centres of Excellence, establishing a European Research Council to stimulate basic research and making Europe more attractive for researchers are among the new Framework Programme's strategic aims. But how can European policymakers ensure that a substantial increase in public/private partnerships will serve to boost private R&D spending? How can the financing of basic research at a European level stimulate the work of ERA, and how can the ERA attract the best and most innovative minds?
Above all, will the EU's increased funding for research projects yield the growth and innovation Europe needs if it is to meet Lisbon goals?
Welcome address by Bernhard Marfurt, Ambassador of Switzerland to the EU
Speakers include:,- Janez Potoènik, EU Commissioner for Science and Research,- Thomas Hinderling, CEO, CSEM, Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology
Further information on this event can be found at http://www.friendsofeurope.org/conf_ataglance.asp?ConfId=381&page=home&frame=yes~basFriends(opens in new window) of Europe is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the analysis and wider understanding of European policy issues.