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:
“It is not unkind to say, from the standpoint of scenery alone, that if many, and indeed most, of our American national parks were to be set down on the continent of Europe thousands of Americans would journey all the way across the ocean in order to see their beauties.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“I’ve come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
“Positively I sit here, and look at Europe sink, first one deck disappearing, then another, and the whole ship slowly plunging bow-down into the abyss; until the nightmare gets to be howling. The Roman Empire was a trifle to it.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)