Engineering News by You :: EU and industry to join forces in $9 billion technological push

Login to EngCom

News Categories

Engineering Drawingboard [Home]Business and Financial Chemical & Process Civil and Structural CMMS Design and CAD Did You Know Electrical & Process Control Environmental and Life Cycle Health & Safety Manufacturing/Production Mechanical Mining, Oil & Gas Military and Defence Process Improvement Transport Warehousing & Distribution Ryan's Ramblings

Syndicate

Save This Page

Interesting engineering news and general interest to get you through the week.

EU and industry to join forces in $9 billion technological push

Clipped to the Drawing Board by David Singh

BRUSSELS: The European Union approved research initiatives worth €9.3 billion Friday for electronics, computers, medicines and airplanes, the first EU programs of their kind to be funded by governments and industry.

EU research ministers endorsed a €3 billion program to spur the development of tiny electronics, or nanotechnology; a €2.7 billion computer project; a €2 billion medicines initiative; and a €1.6 billion plan for cleaner and quieter aircraft. Companies would finance as much as 60 percent of the projects.
....click the link to read more

Start a conversation

Add New

RSS

Monday 26 November, 2007 10:02 AM

< Prev		Next >

[ Back ]

Midweek Trivia

Get this weeks Midweek Trivia!!

(1^st October)

and challenge your workmates.

Find out who knows the most useless trivia.

Others in this Category

Three new superyacht sales listings for Northrop and Johnson NASA eClips Computers Overused ? Lunar rock-like material may someday house moon colonies "Lunacy" Unveiled to 42,000 High-School Students at 2009 FIRST Robotics Competition Game Kickoff.

Your Ad Here

"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible" - Freeman Dyson