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Mr President, Ladies and gentlemen, today the Commission adopted a Communication that is important for the future of research in Europe. It proposes guidelines for future Union research activities, for the period 2002-2006, and more especially for the Union's future Research Framework Programme. The aim is to define the specific contribution that this will make to the creation of a European Research Area.
By means of its Resolution of 18 May 2000, this Parliament lent its firm support to this project, which is now being put into action. A group of representatives from the Member States has therefore been set up to deal with the issues of benchmarking and the mapping of excellence, and this group is currently working with the Commission. A methodology and indicators have been defined and will be presented at the next Research Council. The initial results will be presented to the European Council meeting scheduled for next March, which aims to address general economic and social issues.
But it is clear that the Union's Research Framework Programme also has a more specific role to play. Before it can do so, however, there is a need for a comprehensive review of its design, the conditions under which it is implemented and, more specifically, its methods of intervention. The guidelines set out in the Communication adopted this morning have been defined with this in mind, on the basis, in particular, of the conclusions of the report on the five-year assessment of research programmes, drawn up by a panel of independent experts, and the mid-term review of the Fifth Research Framework Programme, carried out by the Commission.
The guidelines have been defined in such a way as to enable European research to be structured more efficiently via the European Union's research programme. They are based on the following principles: a switch from an approach centred on individual research projects to a broader approach, based on a set of cohesive actions of which European Union measures will constitute but a part. A real concentration of efforts in areas where action at Community level will generate a plus: that of European added value. Such areas would be pinpointed by applying criteria for defining this added value in terms of creating rankings and exclusion. The introduction of types of intervention of longer duration; half-way houses between support for projects and institutional financing, the use of the variable geometry instruments available under the Treaty, and, more specifically, European Union participation in national programmes, as provided for in Article 169 of the Treaty.
In tangible terms, there is, among other things, a proposal to have recourse to formulae such as the networking of national programmes through support for the mutual opening-up of programmes and, above all, European Union participation in programmes carried out in a coordinated fashion; the creation of European networks of excellence by networking existing capacities in the Member States around joint programmes of activities; the carrying out of large targeted research projects conducted by consortia of companies, universities and research centres, on the basis of overall financing plans; greater backing for regional and national efforts in support of innovation and research conducted by small- and medium-sized companies; reinforcing and diversifying action in support of research infrastructures of European interest; the increasing and diversification of mobility grants and, in general terms, measures in the field of human resources.
These new methods of intervention are the result of new methods of management. They will significantly enhance the impact of the measures taken under the current framework programme to increase the scale of projects and to simplify procedures. The guideline document adopted today is designed to trigger debate immediately, beginning with debate within the institutions. On the basis of the outcome of this debate, the Commission will present its formal proposals for the Research Framework Programme for 2002-2006, next February. These proposals will become part of a series of specific Communications, each of which represents a contribution to the establishment of a European Research Area.
I will have be able to present these guidelines in detailed fashion and discuss them at length at the meeting of the Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy, which is scheduled for 12 October, but I look forward to hearing Parliament’s views on this document."@en1
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