EUROPEAN RESEARCH AREA
March 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE NETHERLANDS Shipbuilding Industry Association (VNSI) has welcomed the oncoming agreement of the Euro 16.2 billion EU Sixth Framework Programme for research as giving the European industry a chance to compete effectively against far East suppliers, such as those from South Korea.Its representative Michael Goldan told a European Commission meeting on the programme, staged in Brussels, that funds earmarked within its procedures to allow EU researchers to link up and collaborate would enable European shipbuilding R&D specialists to "mobilise ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.