New technologies and innovation are key for sustainability. They are the second pillar of the European transport policy. Hybrid and electric vehicles have a high potential to help meeting EU policy targets and enable individual mobility. What should the European and national regulatory framework and incentives look like to stimulate research and development of new technologies and to support investment into existing technologies for charging and support infrastructures for electric vehicles?
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EU unveils giant research funding programme
The European Commission presented today (30 November) its €80-billion research funding programme for the decade – Horizon 2020 – with the aim of boosting research, stimulating innovation and simplifying the way scientists and smaller businesses can get funding for EU-backed projects.
The Horizon 2020 programme brings together all EU research and innovation funding under a single scheme running from 2014 to 2020.
It replaces the Seventh Framework Programme for research (FP7), which expires in 2013.
Defending Horizon 2020′s launch in a time of austerity, EU Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science Máire Geoghegan-Quinn said the programme would serve as a driver for European growth.
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