Europe
The European Commission provides financing through numerous specific calls for project proposals within Framework Programms and beyond. The Seventh Framework Programme is currently in progress.
In March 2000, the European Council created the Lisbon Agenda; the aim was to ensure that Europe became the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010. The success of the agenda depended, in part, on the strategic and targeted use of technology.
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Famous quotes containing the word europe:
“I’ve come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
“The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred to in the newspapers as blacks and African Americans must include Europe and Native America.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
“You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a wind-blown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.”
—Bill Bryson (b. 1951)