§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what categories of reports are funded under the call for proposals for indirect research and technological development actions in the framework of the specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration in the field of improving the human research potential and the socioeconomic knowledge base, referred to in European Community Document (2000/c 74/08); and if he will make a statement. [121493]
§ Ms HewittEuropean Community Document 2000/c 74/08 refers to a call for proposals under the Strategic Analysis of Specific Policy Issues (STRATA) activity of the programme, Improving the Human Research Potential and the Socio-Economic Knowledge Base (IHP). The call identifier is IHP-STRATA-00-1.
Under the call the Commission has invited proposals to produce reports on a number of specific issues relating to science and technology policies, these include:
European science and technology policies and national and global systems;Articulation between research, training and development and other policies within the European institutional environment;Management of change in science and technology policy; andCollaboration in science, technology and innovation: changing needs and opportunities for policy.