Europe and the new technologies

European Economic And Social Committee

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Industrial research and development

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• Innovation
• Research program
• RE/Search
• Sciences et techniques

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• Publié par: EUROPEAN-ECONOMIC-AND-SOCIAL-COMMITTEE
• Nombre de lectures: 11
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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EUROPEAN
COMMUNITIES
ECONOMIC AND
SOCIAL COMMITTEE
EUROPE
AND
THE
NEW
TECHNOLOGIES
OFFICE FOR OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS
OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES EUROPE AND THE
NEW TECHNOLOGIES ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE
Rue Ravenstein 2 Tel. [phone] Telegram ECOSEUR
Β - 1000 Brussels Telefax 513 48 93 Telex 25 983 CESEUR
Catalogue number: ESC-87-020-EN EUROPEAN
COMMUNITIES
ECONOMIC AND
SOCIAL COMMITTEE
Europe
and the
new technologies
Document prepared by the Studies and Research Division
of the General Secretariat of the Economic and Social Committee
Brussels 1988 This publication ¡s also available in the following languages:
DE ISBN 92-830-0140-0
FR ISBN 92-830-0139-7
Cataloguing data can be found at the end of this publication
Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1988
ISBN 92-830-0138-9
Catalogue number: EX-52-88-219-EN-C
© ECSC-EEC-EAEC, Brussels - Luxembourg, 1988
Reproduction is authorized, except for commercial purposes, provided the source is
acknowledged.
Printed in Belgium Foreword
In February 1986 the Economic and Social Committee published a brochure
entitled 'Europe and the New Technologies'. This consisted of three
information reports:
New Technologies and R + D
New Industry
New - Social Aspects.
These three reports were supplemented by an appendix on Technological
Research, Cooperation and Innovation in Europe, which attempted to
summarize the various research and technological development programmes
of the European Community and similar programmes arising from
multilateral agreements between European states or European companies.
In view of the interest which this publication received, and in view of the
rapid growth of new research programmes, it was decided to re-issue the
appendix as a separate volume, while at the same time updating it to ensure
that it contained the most recent information, i.e. up to 31 December 1987.
Part 1 of this new text consists of a programme by programme review of
current and proposed Community actions in the areas of new technologies
in Europe. Part 2 is structured in the same way as Part 1, and consists of
a programme by programme review of major European multilateral scientific
and technological cooperation projects. The final part, Part 3, consists of
a glossary of abbreviations.
The ESC's General Secretariat is particularly grateful to those Directorates
General of the Commission (DG V - Employment, Social Affairs and
Education, DG XII - Science, Research and Development; DG XIII -
Information Market and Innovation; DG XVII - Energy), the library of the
European Parliament, and the other organizations which kindly provided
material and suggestions used in this text.
March 1988
Jacques Moreau
Secretary General CONTENTS
page
Introduction V
PART 1 — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY PROGRAMMES 1
a) General, Evaluation and Forecasting
Framework Programme for Scientific Research 3
Stimulation Plan (and BRAIN) 5
FAST 7
CODEST (European Committee for Science and Technology Development) 9
b) European Technology - Market and Market Standards
Information Services Market 10
SPRINT1
BC-Net2
Business and Innovation Centres3
BCR4
c) Information and Telecommunications Technologies
ESPRIT (information)6
RACE (telecommunications) 18
INSIS; integration of Community/Member State services) ... 20
CADDIA (computerization of data, farm market organizations and trade)
(and SHIFT) 21
EUROTRA (computerized translation)
STAR (telecommunications and disadvantaged regions) 2
TEDIS (trade electronic interchange systems)6
AIM (bio-informatics)7
d) New Technology Training
COMETT8
DELTA 30
e) New Technologies and Conventional Industries
BRITE (basic technological research and applications of new technologies) 32
EURAM (research on advanced materials) 33
DRIVE (dedicated road safety systems)5 f) Energy
Hydrocarbons (technological innovation in petrol and natural gas) 36
JET (Joint European Torus) 38
JRCt Research Centre: Safety and development of nuclear energy) 40
Energy Demonstration Programme (energy savings — alternative sources) 42
Non-nuclear energy 44
Valoren5
g) Biotechnology
BIOTECHNOLOGY (R & D in biotechnology)7
h) Environment
Environment Programme9
i) Cooperation with non-Community countries
COST 50
PART 2 - MULTILATERAL AGENCIES AND PROGRAMMES
OUTSIDE THE COMMUNITY FRAMEWORK 53
Space cooperation and research
ESA5
ARIANESPACE 6
EUTELSAT2
EUMETSAT4
APOLLO6
Nuclear cooperation and research
CERN8
NERSA 71
Aircraft industry
AIRBUS INDUSTRY3
Technological cooperation between European Industries in the field of Innovation
EUREKA5
PART 3 — GLOSSARY9
IV