Translation of "top-up program " (English → French) :

KICs could develop coaching programs for young Europeans by means of internships, school visits, grants for top high-school students and university students in STEM fields, funded management or business school and/or entrepreneurship classes for top science students over the summer.

expects that local and regional authorities will be fully involved in the design of "Partnership Contracts" in order to respond to the needs of a bottom-up and integrated approach to regional development strategies; calls on the Member States to start work on the strategic planning of Cohesion Policy in order to be ready to begin programming CSF Funds by 1 January 2014; in that respect, requests the European Commission to closely monitor the elaboration of those contracts by avoiding a top-down and sectoral approach to programming;

22. Deplores the fact that research funding is still very fragmented in Europe, with multiple sources of funding from the Member States and the Community applying different priorities, evaluation criteria, definitions and procedures, leading to unnecessary overlap, confusion, error and lack of critical mass; asks the Commission and the Council to put the issues of cooperation and coordination between the various EU and national programmes at the top of the agenda; calls on the Commission to carry out an analysis to improve the link between European and national actions, including possible coordination in the phases of formulating calls ...[+++] for proposals and evaluating projects, as well as the identification of national rules or laws that hinder or complicate the financial management of international research cooperation projects; asks that calls for proposals, including those of July 2011, be issued in consultation with the Member States, not duplicating or competing with national initiatives but complementing them; in this respect, considers that the ERA-Net scheme should be strengthened as a tool to support excellence and the development of criteria for quality indicators which constitutes the basis for coordination between programmes or joint ventures; suggests that FP7 should complement the efforts of actors managing national programmes involved in joint programming in order to move the RDFPs away from project management thinking towards programme management thinking, but without neglecting the management of small projects; believes that for Joint Programming to be successful, projects should be selected on the basis of excellence, tailored to the characteristics of each sector, the coordinating role of the Commission should be strengthened, and participating Member States should honour their financial commitments; asks that the last three years of FP7 be devoted to helping structure the European Research Area;

We know that government employers and union workplaces have a higher level of participation in the program with the top-up program.

In turn, pay-TV has been driven by multi-channel and premium programming, together with operators' subsidies for set-top-boxes.

That is one of the reasons why improving the quality and efficiency of actions in Greece funded jointly by the European Social Fund was a top priority for the Commission during previous programming periods for the Structural Funds and it will continue to be a sector which requires special attention during the new programming period for 2000-2006.