The objective is to leverage European assets in processor and system architecture, interconnect and data localisation technologies, cloud computing, parallel computing, modelling and simulation software for all market segments, including engineering applications (such as uncertainty quantification, risk analysis and decision in engineering).

In the age of cloud computing, information flows containing sensitive technology can be used to produce unlimited quantities of sensitive goods and present a major challenge for export control, especially due to the inapplicability of border controls, and the difficulty for companies to ensure compliance (e.g. with respect to IT architecture, engineering collaboration, travel of experts etc).

O. whereas 58.9% of the university qualifications awarded in the Union in 2008 went to women and women outnumber men in business, management and law faculties, yet they are in the minority in corporate and political positions of responsibility; whereas few women have IT, engineering or physics degrees and women are consequently under-represented in the private sector, with its crucial role in economic recovery; whereas the gender gap between women and men's employment in the IT sector has tended to widen rather than narrow over time,

O. whereas 58.9% of the university qualifications awarded in the Union in 2008 went to women and women outnumber men in business, management and law faculties, yet they are in the minority in corporate and political positions of responsibility; whereas few women have IT, engineering or physics degrees and women are consequently under-represented in the private sector, with its crucial role in economic recovery; whereas the gender gap between women and men's employment in the IT sector has tended to widen rather than narrow over time,

O. whereas 58.9% of the university qualifications awarded in the Union in 2008 went to women and women outnumber men in business, management and law faculties, yet they are in the minority in corporate and political positions of responsibility; whereas few women have IT, engineering or physics degrees and women are consequently under-represented in the private sector, with its crucial role in economic recovery; whereas the gender gap between women and men’s employment in the IT sector has tended to widen rather than narrow over time,

Your Rapporteur has taken into consideration the discussions held during the Workshop organised by the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection on 11 December 2008 as well as the input received by several stakeholders, institutions and academia, such as CEN (European Committee for Standarisation), CEMA (European Committee of Associations of Manufacturers of Agricultural Machinery), Pesticide Action Network-Europe, Orgalime (The European Engineering Industries Association), Julius Kühn-Institute-Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants (JKI-Germany) and the Department of Agricultural Engineering and Informatics of the University o ...[+++]f Agriculture in Krakow.