To maximise the impact of Union level actions, support will be provided to the full spectrum of research, development and innovation activities from basic research through translation of knowledge on disease to new therapeutics, to large trials, piloting and demonstration actions, by mobilising private investment; to public and pre-commercial procurement for new products, services and scalable solutions, which are, when necessary, interoperable and supported by defined standards and/or common guidelines.

The response depends on excellence in research to improve our fundamental understanding of the determinants of health, disease, disability, healthy employment conditions, development and ageing (including of life expectancy), and on the seamless and widespread translation of the resulting and existing knowledge into innovative, scalable, effective, accessible and safe products, strategies, interventions and services.

These include such things as electronic health records; efficient, modern, and harmonized provincial health technology assessment systems; education and training modules for health professionals in genomics and alterations to the medical school curriculum; a more mature interface between health research and health delivery; and productive research partnerships with the private sector.

Here is the Russian module that we talked about before, the MRM multipurpose research module that arrived at the space station.

-2- The Walloon programme, which covers the Objective 2 areas, comprises three measures, two co-financed by the ERDF and one by the ESF: - the creation of "growth poles" for technological development in small and medium-sized businesses (directors and representatives of research centres), as well as the encouragement of recourse by small and medium- sized businesses to existing innovation support facilities; - the supply of services to promote technological development to small and medium-sized businesses; technology information, search for technology openings on the international market, audits of capacity for innovation; - training ...[+++]in finalizing and industrializing strategies to convert research into applications (five modules: finalizing of research, approach to the market, industrial rights protection, industrial licensing and agreements, industrial-scale exploitation of technology) and training in small and medium-sized businesses to deal with problems of qualifications arising out of technology transfer).

The following new partners will now join the existing Jean Monnet activities : In Hungary In Poland - 1 Jean Monnet Chair in Community Law -2 Jean Monnet Chairs in European Economic Integration and European Political and Social Sciences - 6 permanent Courses/European Modules -8 permanent Courses/European Modules In addition to this, 10 research projects (4 in Hungary and 6 in Poland) will be supported in the framework of the Jean Monnet Chairs and permanent Courses in order to allow, together with the grants for teaching materials (do ...[+++]cumentation etc..), the development of centres of excellence in the universities of these countries.