Policy Focus March 2004

• Security related research
  Euro 15 mill has been accorded for 2004 to launch a Preparatory Action entitled ‘Enhancement of the European industrial potential in the field of Security research 2004-2006’. It is planned that the Preparatory Action will last three years with a estimated total budget of 65 Mio€.  The preparatory action includes protecting against terrorism (including bio-terrorism and incidents with biological, chemical and other substances).
  ftp://ftp.cordis.lu/pub/era/docs/communication_security_030204_en.pdf
• Research to be one of prime beneficiaries of higher EU budget proposed by Commission
  http://dbs.cordis.lu/cgi-bin/srchidadb?CALLER=NHP_EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&RCN=EN_RCN_ID:21583
• Technology platforms:  The European union research advisory board recommendations
  http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/eurab/pdf/recommendations9.pdf
• Higher contributions from the EU’s Member States for research and innovation initiatives at EU level.
  http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/search/search_lip.html
• Critical first draft report evaluating the new instruments in the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) ,
  http://www.cordis.lu/fp6/instruments_review