Strong support for Commission's future R&D policy objectives[fr][de] 

The objective of 'Making Europe more attractive to the best researchers' clearly ranks as the highest with nearly 100 per cent of  stakeholders considering this priority very important.   

This is a striking result from the open consultation held on the Commission's 16 June 2004 communication on future European Union policy to support research which gathered reactions from over 1700 organisations and individuals.

Each of the five other priorities set out in the June Communication received an equally strong, broad support. However, space and security related research, the two additional, specific priorities identified in the Commission's communication, received substantially lower support from the stakeholders, who stressed that such research "must strike the right balance with fundamental liberties, human rights and social values". 

One third of the responses was recieved from individuals and one fourth from academic world. Most of the answers were received from Germany (14,9 per cent), the UK, Italy, Belgim, France and Spain - new member states being clearly under represented in the overall statistics.

For more detailed information see   Cordis News on the issue.