Transcript A new start for the Lisbon Strategy

A new start for the Lisbon Strategy
Executive summary
 3.3.1. Increase and improve investment in
Research and Development
 3.3.2. Facilitate innovation, the uptake of ICT and
the sustainable use of resources
 3.3.3. Contribute to a strong European industrial
base
 3.4. Creating more and better jobs
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1) What does executive summary mean?
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projection and balance sheet. It can also be
useful as a valuable prelude to a full-length plan
later on.
2) What aspects does it deal with?
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Renewing Lisbon Strategy programme
Extending the single market
Expanding and improving European Infrastructure
Creating better and more competitive jobs
A renewed partnership for growth and jobs
Powering research and innovation
Facing social and cultural problems such as
unemployment and immigration
Developing professional qualification through better
education and skills
Eco-innovation
Powering the economic growth and increasing the
industrial output
3) What is the aim of the executive summary?
Its main function is to explain at the beginning
of the reading what the topics discussed in the
document are and to introduce the reader to
the general issue. A particular attention is given
to the changes operated on the Lisbon Strategy
programme and on the synthesis of the next
steps for economy and social problems
(employment).
4) How could this document help a
student to define his future?
Students that are going to find a job should
immediately understand that traditional working
methods does not suffice anymore: now a new
concept of co-operation is necessary to organize an
economy that should also include knowledge,
technical skills and social cohesion.
3.3.1. Increase and improve investment in
Research and Development
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The EU is currently spending only 2% of GDP.
We must achieve faster progress towards the
EU target of 3% of GDP for R&D expenditure.
MEETING THE 3% R&D TARGET
• Progress towards the Lisbon target for EU research and
development spending is largely in the hands of Member
States.
• A key building block should also be a co-ordinated
European approach to improve the tax environment for
R&D.
3.3.2. Facilitate innovation, the uptake of ICT
and the sustainable use of resources (1)
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Universities’ contribution to the creation and
dissemination of knowledge throughout the Union must
be reinforced.
In order to achieve greater synergies between research,
structural and cohesion funding, we should invest more in
facilities for research and innovation.
INNOVATION POLES
• We need a greater focus on establishing innovation poles,
bringing together high technology small and medium
sized enterprises, universities and the necessary
business and financial support.
3.3.2. Facilitate innovation, the uptake of ICT
and the sustainable use of resources (2)
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Our innovation performance is crucially dependent on
strengthening investment and the use of new
technologies, particularly ICTs.
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Europe is helping with a new initiative - i2010: European
Information Society will stimulate the take-up of ICTs, to
continue the eEurope agenda which the Lisbon Strategy
fostered.
Lasting success for the Union depends on addressing a
range of resource and environmental challenges.
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ECO-INNOVATION
The Commission will step up its promotion of environmental
technologies.
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3.3.3. Contribute to a strong European
industrial base
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In order to enhance and sustain an economic and
technological leadership Europe must have a strong
industrial capacity, particularly by exploiting fully its
technological potential.
The relaunch of the Lisbon Strategy should create the right
conditions for tapping this potential and facilitating the
necessary structural change whilst working externally to
achieve open markets.
EUROPEAN TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVES
• The objective is to tackle market failures and to advance
concrete product or service developments on the basis of
those technologies.
3.4. Creating more and better jobs
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Ensuring prosperity and reducing the risks of social
exclusion means doing more to give people jobs and make
sure they remain in work or education throughout their lives.
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In a context of rapid economic change and intense
demographic ageing, creating more and better jobs is not
just a political ambition: it is an economic and social
necessity.
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Finally, the Commission will propose to revise the
European Employment Strategy in 2005 as an integral
part of the new Lisbon Strategy, building on the Lisbon
Action Plan.
Thanks for your attention
CREDITS
Mossenta Davide