Continuous Acquisition and Life Cycle Support [ CALS | Continuous Acquisition and Life-Cycle Support | Computer-Aided Acquisition and Logistic Support ]

acquisition cycle | acquisition and payment cycle | buying cycle

acquisition cycle [ acquisition and payment cycle | buying cycle ]

acquisitions analyst | mergers analyst | mergers and acquisitions analyst | mergers and acquisitions professional

director of property acquisition services | land acquisition specialist | property acquisitions manager | property transactions supervisor

bicycle trailer maker | racing bike assembler | bicycle assembler | children's bicycle maker

undergraduate

volume acquisition | volumic acquisition | spiral acquisition | helical acquisition

Additional European languages skills widen career prospects and determine in part whether skilled graduates or researchers choose to stay in Europe post-graduation, as highlighted by the Erasmus Mundus joint degree students from outside the EU who undertake mobility to at least two European countries.

One of the most important goals is to increase investment in human resources, to halve the number of 18 to 24 year olds with only lower-secondary level education who are not in further education and training by 2010, to turn schools and training centres - all linked to the Internet - into open learning centres, to provide support to each and every population group and to use the most appropriate methods to define new basic skills.

‘life cycle’ means all consecutive and/or interlinked stages, including research and development to be carried out, production, trading and its conditions, transport, use and maintenance, throughout the existence of the product or the works or the provision of the service, from raw material acquisition or generation of resources to disposal, clearance and end of service or utilisation ;

25. Third, with respect to the ‘pooling of procurement’, such as in the A400M programme, highlights the potential benefits of joint procurement in terms of economies of scale, building a viable industrial base, interoperability, and subsequent possibilities of pooling and sharing in in-service support, maintenance and training; deplores the fact that these benefits are often lost due to differences in requirements and work-share agreements as in the case of the Eurofighter programme; in order to realise fully the potential savings, stresses the importance of maintaining a common configuration of jointly procured equipment through its entire life cycle in order ...[+++]to facilitate joint in-service support; invites the Member States also to consider the pooling of outsourced services;