CORDIS focus 81. 24 FEBRUARY 1997

Directorate-General For The Information Society And Media

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ISSN 1022-6559 24 February 1997 The contents of this bulletin are based on RTD-News, updated every day, and other CORDIS databases PREPARING THE FIFTH RTD FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME AN INSIDE VIEW An interview with Professor Jorma Routti, Director­General of l)(ì XII Professor Jorma Routti, Director­General of DG XII (Science, research and development) of the European Commission, recently gave an interview to CORDIS, the Community R&D Information Service, in which he outlines some of the central factors influencing the Commission in its preparation of the Fifth RTD Framework Programme. ■ Could you outline some of the considerations which are influencing your approach to preparations for the Fifth Framework Programme? My feeling is that it is interesting to have interaction in the evaluation, amongst people of different disciplines. I found it rather useful, in a small organization, to have a biology project looked at by a team which includes biologists, econo­mists, and technologists. In the scientific world, it is very often crossbreeding between ideas from different fields which is most fertile. If one has a very compartmentalized Framework Programme then of course the experts are also very d and they see the world in the way they are used to seeing it and it becomes somewhat predictable. If they (the evaluators) are predictable, there might be very interesting research areas which do not find a proper place in our evaluation of calls for proposals.

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• Publié par: DIRECTORATE-GENERAL-FOR-THE-INFORMATION-SOCIETY-AND-MEDIA
• Nombre de lectures: 8
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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