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Foreword.
Dear Reader,
This edition of the EFTA Bulletin presents the new generation of EU programmes. Our aim is to provide EFTA citizens with up-to-date information on the programmes and an effective tool to navigate in these vast opportunities now open to us.
The participation of the EFTA States in the programmes may well be the best example of good EFTA-EU cooperation in the Internal Market outside the four freedoms. The participation of EFTA States has proven to be beneficial for both sides. While allowing EFTA participants to find EU partners, the programmes also provide an opportunity for the EU to benefit from the expertise and best practices of EFTA States, besides the increase in the programmes' budget through the financial contributions of the EFTA States.
In the introduction to this issue, the President of the European Commission. Mr Jose Manuel Barroso. underlines that one of the objectives of the EU programmes is to stimulate the mobility of people across Europe. In the following article, the Prime Minister of Iceland, Mr Geir Haarde, presents some of the EFTA success stories in EU programmes, and their importance for the EEA Agreement.
After a background section explaining how to set tip an EU project and how to participate in an EU programme, we present each of the 15 new EU programmes, starting with the three with the largest budgets: the 7th Framework Programme on Research and Development, the Competitiveness and Innovation programme and the Lifelong Learning programme. All three are directly connected to the objectives of the Lisbon Strategy, i.e., to make the EU the most competitive knowledge economy in the world, based on social equality and ecologic sustainability. These three programmes comprise 14 old ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Foreword.