FP5 Theme 3 - Competitive and Sustainable Growth

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Background Information

Competitive and Sustainable Growth is one of the four thematic programmes of the Fifth RTD Framework Programme (1998-2002).

Conceived to help solve problems and to respond to the major socio-economic challenges facing Europe, the Programme, with a budget of Euro 2.705 million for the period 1998-2002, has clear targets: to increase economic growth and create new jobs in Europe, by sustaining the innovation effort of European industry towards improved competitiveness and to support Community policies that enable competitive and sustainable development.

The main targets of the Competitive and Sustainable Growth Programme are:

• to produce, disseminate and use the knowledge and technologies needed to design and develop processes and produce high quality, environment- and consumer-friendly products which will be competitive on tomorrow's market;
• to help increase economic growth, maintain and/or create new jobs in Europe;
• to sustain the continuing innovation and modernisation efforts of manufacturing, processing and services enterprises (including SMEs) so as to improve their competitiveness;
• to support the development and implementation of Community policies that enable competitive and sustainable development.

This goes hand in hand with the development of related services, including transport, which are economic, safe and protective of the environment and quality of life as well as with the development of quality materials, reliable measurement and testing methods and the optimal use of specific research infrastructures.

Competitiveness and sustainability require a "systems approach" in which research activities support the development of coherent, interconnected and eco-efficient industrial and social systems, responding to both market and social needs.

Further information on this area of RTD activity can also be obtained through the Europa website:

ec.europa.eu/research/growth/

while the Growth info desk can be contact by email at: growth@ec.europa.eu



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