Innovation QTechnotogy Trami-* -b tn KJ PUBLISHED BY INNOVATION/SMEs PROGRAMME · MARCH 1999 EUROPEAN COMMISSION CONTENTS Solar Roof, page 18 A Europe of knowledge Europe's prosperity will be largely determined by the priority it awards to education and training.This is an essential investment, not only because it will allow young people to Innovation/SMEs programme O-O gain access to quality jobs and permit their personal fulfil•The Fifth Research Framework Programme — ment, but also because now - more than ever before - It is the role of the new Innovation/SMEs programme the key to our industry's competitiveness. • Innovation project — robotised welding We are currently facing a paradox. While unemployment for the European rolling stock industry remains a major problem in all European countries, we are Dossier: also seeing that the development of many high-tech sectors Education and training: 6-11 is being held back by a shortage of skills. What is more, these • Vocational training, fellowships and training networks for researchers are the very sectors which are - and will long remain - the • Industrial involvement in the transnational training of European researchers strongest engines for economic growth worldwide.