CORDIS FOCUS 31 May 1999. NUMBER 134

Directorate-General For The Information Society And Media

Description

ISSN 1022-6559 31 May 1999 Based on information from the CORDES databases available on the Web at http: www.cordis.lu RESEARCH COUNCIL WELCOMES FP5 PARTICIPATION FOR CANDIDATE COUNTRIES The Research Council has completed the European Union's procedures to permit the participation of the ten Central and Eastern European countries as well as Cyprus in the Fifth RTD Framework Programme (FP5). The agreements will enter into force after their formal conclusion in meetings of the Association Councils bringing together the EU and the individual countries concerned, once each country has completed its own procedures. The Decisions approving the agreements on behalf of the As mentioned in the communication, the Commission will EU were taken during the Research Council meeting on 20 gather and disseminate statistics from the implementation May 1999, at which the Council also responded to the Com­ of FP5 on the number of women participating in research mission's communication on "Women and Science". activities and in the various advisory and decision­making bodies. According to the Commission's Women and Sci­Acting Commissioner Cresson reported on the measures ence sector, such statistics are already heing prepared and that have heen taken, or are about to he taken, with a view should be available on the Web later in 1999. to associate the ten candidate countries of Central and East­ern Europe and Cyprus to the FP5.

Sujets

• Marketing et communication

Informations

• Publié par: DIRECTORATE-GENERAL-FOR-THE-INFORMATION-SOCIETY-AND-MEDIA
• Nombre de lectures: 26
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 6 Mo

Extrait