EUROPEAN COMMISSION STARTS PLANNING FOR EIGHTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME
September 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has already started considering the potential shape of the eighth framework programme on research (which would start in 2014), even as the final details of its seventh predecessor are still being thrashed out.
Brussels' directorate general (DG) for research commissioned a study, and it has recommended that the next big EU research programme look well beyond the shores of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.
Notably, the 'Scope 2015' project has recommended that the EU devote future resources to helping developing ...
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