SITUATION AND OBJECTIVES
1. Research in Europe
2. Better investment in knowledge
3. Public research effort
4. private investment
5. Organisation of research in Europe
6. A real european policy: towards a European research area
A EUROPEAN RESEARCH AREA
1. A stock of material resources and facilities optimised at the European level
1.1 Networking of centres of excellence and creation of virtual centres
1.2 Defining a European approach to research facilities
1.3 Better use of the potential offered by electronics networks
2. More chherent use of public instruments and resources
2.1 More co-ordinated implementation of national and European research programmes
2.2 Closer relations between scientific and technological cooperation organisations in Europe
3. More dynamic private investment
3.1 Better use of instruments of indirect aid to research
3.2 Development of effective tools to protect intellectual property
3.3 Encouragement of the creation of companies and risk capital investment
4. A common system of scientific and technical reference for policy implementation
4.1 Developing the research needed for political decision
4.2 Establishment of a common system of scientific and technical reference
5. More abundant and more mobile human resources
5.1 Greater mobility of researchers in Europe
5.2 Introduction of a European dimension into scientific careers
5.3 Greater place and role for women in research
5.4 Giving the young a taste for research and careers in science
6. A dynamic European landscape, open and attractive to researchers and investment
6.1 More of a role for the regions in the European research effort
6.2 Integration of the scientific communities of western and eastern Europe
6.3 Making Europe attractive to researchers from the rest of the world
7. An area of shared values
7.1 Tackling the questions of science and society in their European dimension
7.2 Development of a shared vision of the ethical issues of science and technology
