Research for Europe 2004 : 36 examples of successful EU-funded projects

This brochure presents a selection of 36 recently completed EU-funded research projects, which show how Framework Programme research directly addresses significant social and economic challenges, and in many cases has an immediate practical impacts. The featured projects include ones which have led to the creation or improvement of consumer products, and to changes in business practice or regulation. Others will provide the basis for future improvements in safety, productivity, energy supply, environmental protection and health. Supported by the European Union under the Fifth Research Framework Programme, many of the projects exhibit characteristics of the present Sixth Framework Programme, which succeeded it in 2002. They tend to be large-scale, to seek the development of sustainable research networks, to involve end-users and other industrial partners, and to direct significant attention to plans for exploiting their results.