Il s'agit, premierement, des actions de "big science", impliquant des initiatives de caractere
international et se traduisant souvent en "mega- projets"; deuxiemement, des activites a prio
rite technologique, notamment dans les domaines des technologies generiques capables d'influencer plusieurs secteurs industriels; troisiemement, des activites destinees a structurer le grand marche, notamment dans les secteurs couverts par les differentes politiques communes; quatriemement, des activites de recherche prenormative, dans les cas ou
...[+++]l'acquisition de donnees scientifiques et technologiques est necessaire pour fixer des standards, des normes, des regles; cinquiemement, des activites en faveur de la Communaute scientifique europeenne, afin de developper des systemes integres de reseaux et des programmes de mobilite a l'echelle communautaire.The activities in question are "big science", meaning international initiatives, often taking the form of "mega-projects"; technological priority
projects, e.g. in generic technologies which can have a bearing on a number of industrial sectors; activities designed to organize the single market, particularly in the sectors covered by the various common policies; pre-normative research in cases where the acquisition of scientific and technological data is necessary for the preparation of standards, norms and regulations; and finally activities to assist the European scientific community in developing Community-wide integrated systems o
...[+++]f networks and mobility programmes.