Translation of "domaines davantage " (French → English) :

In the future, European standardisation will play a crucial role in a wide variety of areas, wider than today , ranging from supporting European competitiveness, protecting the consumer, improving accessibility of disabled and elderly people to tackling climate change and the resource efficiency challenge.

ACTIONS The Commission will: Key action 9: Leverage more private investment through the strategic use of pre-commercial procurement[36] and public-private partnerships[37], by using structural funds for research and innovation and by maintaining a pace of 20% yearly increase of the ICT RD budget at least for the duration of FP7; Other actions: Reinforce the coordination and pooling of resources with Member States and industry[38], and put greater focus on demand- and user-driven partnerships in EU support to ICT research and innovation; Starting in 2011 propose measures for ‘light and fast’ access to EU research funds in ICT, making th ...[+++]em more attractive notably to SMEs and young researchers in view of a wider implementation within the revision of the EU RTD Framework; [39] Ensure sufficient financial support to joint ICT research infrastructures and innovation clusters, develop further eInfrastructures and establish an EU strategy for cloud computing notably for government and science; Work with stakeholders to develop a new generation of web-based applications and services, including for multilingual content and services, by supporting standards and open platforms through EU-funded programmes.

Maintain the EU’s coordinative role in the development of the EU policy on rare diseases and to support Member States in their activities on the national level. Continue to support the development of high quality National Rare Diseases Plans/Strategies in the European Union. Provide continued support for the International Rare Disease Research Consortium and initiatives developed under its umbrella. Continue to ensure proper codification of rare diseases. Work further to decrease inequalities between patients with rare diseases and patients suffering from more common disorders and to support initiatives promoting equal access to diagnosi ...[+++]s and treatment. Continue to promote patients empowerment in all aspects of rare diseases policy development Continue activities increasing public awareness about rare diseases and EU activity in this field Make use of the Directive 2011/24/EU on the application of patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare to bring together European Reference Networks on rare diseases. Support the development of the tools facilitating cooperation and interoperability of the European Reference Networks for rare diseases. Stimulate development and use of eHealth solutions in the area of rare diseases. Implement and continue support for the European Platform on rare diseases registration. Continue playing a global role in the rare diseases initiative and collaborating with important international stakeholders.

This requires more competition-based funding in research and more output-related funding in education.

The Commission will: implement, in cooperation with Member States, the European Indicator of Language Competence; promote discussion and produce a recommendation on ways of bringing language teacher education up to date; publish a study of best practice in early language learning in 2006; provide support through the proposed Lifelong Learning Programme for studies on the state of multilingualism in higher education and the creation of chairs in fields of study related to multilingualism and interculturalism; continue to support the teaching and learning of languages through its cooperation programmes in the field of education, training, youth, citizenship and culture; investigate ways of supporting language diversity networks through t ...[+++]he new integrated Lifelong Learning programme; and reinforce in the 7th Framework Research Programme the research and technological development activities on language-related information society technologies, with a specific focus on new technologies for machine translation, and study the ways in which the European Union could encourage further cooperation in new translation and interpretation technologies. In the same framework, linguistic issues will form an integral part of the activities supported in the fields of social sciences and humanities.

In addition, five specific priorities are suggested for adoption at ASEM III. These are: an enhanced exchange of views on regional and global security issues; an enhanced result-oriented co-operation on trade and economic issues, including dialogue on social policy issues; intensified educational exchanges between our two regions; networking and co-operation in the field of consumer protection, and a possible enlargement of participation in the ASEM process