Traduction de «community research and information crossroads » (Anglais → Français) :

In particular, again in the document “Sustaining Canada as an Innovative Society”, which was given to you in September 1997, the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada called for the establishment of what they termed CRICS, or the community research and information crossroads, as a method of transferring knowledge from the social science and humanities to Canadians.

2. The Seventh Framework Programme shall comprise Community research, technological development, international cooperation, dissemination of technical information and exploitation activities as well as training, to be set out in two specific programmes.

3. In the implementation of the Programme, the Commission shall, in close cooperation with the Member States, ensure general consistency and complementarity with other relevant Community policies, programmes and actions that impinge upon the development and use of European digital content and the promotion of linguistic diversity in the information society, in particular the Community research and technological development programm ...[+++]es, IDA, eTEN, eInclusion, eLearning, Modinis and Safer Internet.

Recalls its conclusion of 29 April 1993, according to which detailed criteria and mechanisms should be established for cost-effective implementation and improved management of the Framework Programme in order to ensure that its objectives are fully met; reaffirms also its emphasis on the need for the improvement of procedures for systematic, independent and timely evaluation of the Framework Programme; 2. Welcomes in this respect the initiatives undertaken by the Commission with a view to improving the management of the EC research programmes and encourages the Commission to develop further such initiatives in time for the implementati ...[+++]on of the Fourth Framework Programme; 3. Emphasizes that procedures and tools for programme implementation should as far as possible be simplified and harmonized in order to facilitate participation in Community research programmes, particularly by SMEs, and to allow for smooth, transparent and timely implementation of the Framework Programme; welcomes in this respect the circulation by the Commission of information bulletins on a regular basis; 4. Would welcome in particular, without prejudice to the quality and transparency of the selection procedure, improvements in specific areas, such as the shortening of delays between deadlines for receipt of proposals and start of selected projects and the provision of information to applicants on non-selected proposals; 5. Takes note of the Commission's intention to assess in further detail the possible benefits and disadvantages of decentralized management and possible further concrete measures that could be taken in this field, so as to enable Council to take a view on this issue as soon as possible; 6. Considers that possible new types of activities, for example thematic networks of excellence, concertation networks and consortia for integrated projects, as proposed by the Commission, need to be clarified further; 7. Reaffirms the importance of the role of programme committees in th ...

The proposal for the establishment of community research and information crossroads, or CRICs, on Canadian campuses is an important potential tool in knowledge transfer.

To tackle the serious problems resulting from the lack of coordination at different levels, and to avoid the dangers of continuing to manage the research and technological innovation process via insufficiently integrated policies when these should be focused on the rapid transformation of scientific break-throughs into job-creating industrial and commercial successes, the Committee lists in its Opinions a number of recommendations, and in particular: - the need to reform bodies implementing Community RTD programmes and to simplify the ...[+++] administrative organization of such programmes; - the need to make coordination part and parcel of the Community RTD framework by creating networks for systematic exchange of information and "tableaux de bord" on national and Community research actions; - the need to develop a flexible, interdisplinary approach in the light of the fifth framework programme; - the need to create a single European market for innovation by eliminating the present segmentation; - the need to promote a coordinated European environment in respect of national tax incentives for intangible investment and for innovation, especially in SMEs; - the need to stimulate the further intertwining of research and industry within the framework of new and more sophisticated machinery and a favourable legal and regulatory framework; - the need to develop international cooperation through the advance, systematic coordination of activities carried out by the Member States and by the European Union; - the need to reinforce coordination between the research/technological innovation policy and other Community policies, ensuring greater consistency between them.