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I think that Mr Crowley’s questions are absolutely pertinent. That is the reality on the ground. So, what is happening at the moment? We currently have a framework programme for technological research and development that the Commission has been funding since its adoption by Parliament and the Council. Until now there has been no link between what we do and what the European Investment Bank also does to support loans for innovation and infrastructures.
The objective therefore is to establish a link between the two. This idea of mutual recognition should obviously not be a mechanism whose sole purpose is to complicate matters. This is, therefore, why each body upholds its own procedures. We have our own specific procedures for scientific assessment as well as for the framework programme and the European Investment Bank has its own financial and economic criteria. It is true that we are currently, with the European Investment Bank, studying solutions that will hopefully be used in the development of new processes that help innovation and new financing procedures, taking account of experience already gained on the one hand by the framework programme for research, and by the European Investment Bank on the other.
This work is in progress. I cannot foresee what the results will be but I can already tell you that the mechanism has already been implemented at Heidelberg, amongst other places, where a technology transfer centre is to be financed by the European Investment Bank under conditions that are very favourable to this centre, which has chosen to work with the European Investment Bank. This would not have been possible without the privileged contacts that we had in relation to research programmes.
There are examples, therefore, but a great effort with regard to information and the study of dossiers still needs to be made. I thank you for your question and I hope that it will contribute to the dissemination of this information."@en1
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