The last 15th of March, a delegation of EFTPs’
(European Fisheries Technology Platform) Board
of Directors met with the European Commissioner
for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Ms. Maria
Damanaki. The aim of the meeting was to make the
EFTP available for the Commissioner and for DG
Mare and to show the progress achieved in this
organization.
ETPs Mission
Provide a framework for
stakeholders, led by industry, to define
research and development priorities,
timeframes and action plans on a number of
strategically important issues where
achieving Europe's future growth,
competitiveness and sustainability
objectives is dependent upon major research
and technological advances in the medium to
long term.
Play a key role in ensuring
an adequate focus of research funding on
areas with a high degree of industrial
relevance, by covering the whole economic
value chain and by mobilising public
authorities at national and regional levels.
In fostering effective public-private
partnerships, technology platforms have the
potential to contribute significantly to the
renewed Lisbon strategy
and to the development of a European Research Area
of knowledge for growth. As such, they are
proving to be powerful actors in the
development of European research policy, in
particular in orienting the Seventh Research
Framework Programme
to better meet the needs of industry.
Address technological
challenges that can potentially contribute
to a number of key policy objectives which
are essential for Europe's future
competitiveness, including the timely
development and deployment of new
technologies, technology development with a
view to sustainable development, new
technology-based public goods and services,
technological breakthroughs necessary to
remain at the leading edge in high
technology sectors and the restructuring of
traditional industrial sectors.
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