EU ROUND UP – EU PROMOTES PAINT AND COATINGS RESEARCH AS POLITICANS MULL NEW SCIENCE SPENDING

BY KEITH NUTHALL AS the European Union (EU) debates the cost and orientation of its next multi-billion Euro and eighth framework programme for research, the European Commission has been releasing success stories about previous EU studies helping the paint and coatings sector. The new programme, which would run from 2014 to 2020 could have as much as Euro EUR80 billion to spend, which private coatings companies could bid for, as long as they formed international research consortia focused on particular research topics. Brussels in the past month has released ...


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