- make it easier for Europe’s researchers and universities to work with the best scientists and research infrastructures in the world;

Based on a process launched in February 2001 by the Commission's Communication on the New Labour Markets[3], the conclusions of the Stockholm European Council of March 2001 and the work of the High Level Task Force on Skills and Mobility, the Commission adopted in February 2002 an Action Plan for Skills and Mobility[4].

12. Calls on the Commission to require the Task Force, set up to examine the drivers and characteristics of the new European labour markets, to provide a set of policy initiatives to ensure that these markets are open to all;

15. Notes with interest the Commission's communication on the new European labour markets and the proposal that Stockholm should establish a high-level skills and mobility taskforce to propose a mobility action programme to the 2002 Spring Council;

This Communication follows and complements previous reports and texts related to free movement, such as the Commission's 1990 Communication on Frontier Workers [5], the Report of the High Level Panel on the free movement of persons (the "Veil Report") of 1997, the Commission's Action Plan for Free Movement of Workers [6], the Resolution of the Council and the Member States concerning an action plan for mobility [7], the Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council on Mobility [8], Commission Communication on a mobility Strategy for the European Research Area [9], the Communication on New European Labour Markets [10] and t ...[+++]he Commission's Action Plan for Skills and Mobility [11].

The project will assure the upgrading of the interconnections between Europe's research networks to up to 10 Gigabites by the end of 2001, providing the tools for European researchers to work interactively together in a wide variety of research areas.