SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME OFFERS RICH PICKINGS FOR UTILITY GRANT SEEKERS
May 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLIN today's highly competitive global markets, utilities and their suppliers are always looking for an edge, especially in technology. So it can only be good news that the European Union (EU) will from this year until 2013 be spending Euro 2.3 billion on energy studies, Euro 1.8 billion on environmental research and a whopping Euro 9.1 billion on information and communications technology innovation. These budgets form part of the EU's largest ever research spending scheme, commanding budgets worth Euro 53.2 billion in total: its 'seventh framework ...
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