Translation of "VL for education and training in satellite meteorology " (English → French) :

Innovative satellite communication services, seamlessly integrated in the global electronic communication networks, for citizens and enterprises in application sectors encompassing civil protection, e-government, telemedicine, tele-education, search and rescue, tourism and leisure time, personal navigation, fleet management, agriculture and forestry, meteorology and generic users.

These include general analysis and forecasting, weather radar and satellite observations, surface and upper-air observation networks, meteorological communication systems, data-processing centres and supporting core research, training and administration,

promote investment in knowledge, new technologies and innovation by increasing public and private expenditure on research and development (RD) to make progress towards the 3% of GDP objective, for example by developing a framework conducive to RD, facilitating the protection of intellectual property, promoting the e-Europe 2005 Action Plan, developing the Galileo satellite navigation system and improving education and training.

Promote investment in knowledge and innovation and make progress towards the 3% of GDP objective of total RD investment by: (i) developing framework conditions conducive to RD and innovation and realising an affordable, legally-certain, Community patent; (ii) promoting access and use of ICT in line with the e-Europe 2005 Action Plan; (iii) facilitate the development of the Union's satellite navigation system Galileo; and (iv) improving the quality and efficiency of education ...[+++] and training systems, including lifelong learning and active labour market policies, in order to respond adequately to changing skills requirements, thereby maintaining and upgrading the human capital base (see also Employment Guideline 4).

Take active steps to promote investment in knowledge, new technologies and innovation and reach by 2010 the 3% of GDP objective of total RD investment (2/3 private, 1/3 public) by: (i) increasing the resources in national budgets devoted to these objectives; (ii) developing framework conditions conducive to private investment in RD and innovation primarily based on tax benefits for related expenses and investments, facilitating priority access to venture capital markets, and enhanced involvement of the European Investment Bank; (iii) realising an affordable, legally-certain, Community patent; (iv) promoting access to and the use ...[+++]of ICT in line with the e-Europe 2005 Action Plan; (v) facilitate the development of the Union's satellite navigation system Galileo; and (vi) improving the quality and efficiency of education and training systems, including lifelong learning and active labour market policies, in order to respond adequately to changing skills requirements, thereby maintaining and upgrading the human capital base (see also Employment Guideline 4).

11. Expresses its support for all measures, especially all timetabled policy steps, in the direction of a transition to a knowledge-based economy; underlines, however, that the achievement of a knowledge-based economy presupposes increased activity in the areas of research and development, of higher education, of training and retraining of the labour force and ultimately the emergence of a process of lifelong learning for all members of society, such increased activity requiring both additional private and public investment in human resources as well as in projects to ...[+++]develop information highways, e.g. in the form of common satellite projects or TENs projects, and asks the Council to remedy this deficiency in the final version of the guidelines;