Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-07-04-Speech-2-227"
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"Mr President, I would like to begin by congratulating the Commission on the timeliness of a document that provides for practical and important actions aimed at creating a scientific and technological policy that is effective in terms of achieving the Lisbon objectives. I would also like to congratulate the rapporteur on her report, which provides a very realistic diagnosis of the obstacles that the European Union needs to overcome in order for those actions to achieve the desired results.
I shall refer to three issues. Firstly, the need to create a single market that is attractive to researchers. It is clear that, in order to achieve the objectives it has set, the European Union needs more properly trained researchers and it needs to be able to use its human resources by promoting cross-border cooperation.
To this end, we must combat the brain drain effectively, we must provide incentives for the best foreign researchers to come to work in Europe, we must promote scientific education amongst young people, improve the working conditions of research staff, remove obstacles to mobility and promote the conditions necessary for women to be able to take part in the scientific and technological field under equal conditions with men. The football metaphor is of no use to us here, ladies and gentlemen: in order to make progress intelligently, the team needs to be mixed.
Secondly, I would like to refer to the need to support the research capacities of SMEs. In this regard, I would like to stress the importance of the instruments proposed in the CIS and in the Seventh Framework Programme to improve SMEs’ access to funding, lack of which is their main obstacle when trying to improve their innovating capacity.
I would finally like to stress the proposal to strengthen the Structural Funds intended for research and innovation. The Structural Funds have been reinforcing R+D structures on the basis of a territorial distribution of resources by means of convergence criteria. It is therefore important to promote coordination between the different Community R+D programmes with the fundamental instrument of regional development policy: the Structural Funds.
Mr President, those are the three points I wished to stress of a document that may be very useful in our future work."@en1
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