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:
“Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the whole world depends even when rejecting it. This is why I do not believe in a Europe unified under the weight of an ideology or of a technocracy that overlooked these differences.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labour being abundant: here it is to make the most of our labour, land being abundant.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“The people of Western Europe are facing this summer a series of tragic dilemmas. Of the hopes that dazzled the last twenty years that some political movement might tend to the betterment of the human lot, little remains above ground but the tattered slogans of the past.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)