In addition, it will encourage the development of new scientists and engineers in the field of nuclear energy including by attracting young scientists and engineers in this field.

To increase the quality and the number of engineers and researchers capable of facing the new energy innovation challenges, the Commission will use, in particular, the Marie Curie Actions of the Research Framework Programme, to boost the training of researchers in the energy field.

The contract with the consortium of engineers providing technical assistance to the energy sector and Kosovo's energy management body (KEK) was extended for a further three months to cover the period to April 2002. This will allow time for a proposed new management support contract to be tendered, and for a handover period.

- Subprogramme No 2 Support infrastructures for economic activities covers assistance for water supplies to urban areas, equipment for vocational training centres (including that for sailors at Villagarcia de Arose) and for university-level technical education (highway engineering at La Coruña, agronomy at Lugo, data-processing at La Coruña, food technology polytechnic at Orense and the faculty of maritime sciences at Vigo-Pontevedra), the provision of health centres (65 throughout the region and the improvement of a number of ospitals (including those at Verin and Vigo) and rural electrification and rationalization of the electricity su ...[+++]pply network (construction of a high-tension link from Meson to the Portuguese border via Castrelo).

I want to tell everybody that Sean Whittaker is a professional engineer and the vice-president of policy for the Canadian Wind Energy Association, CanWEA, a not-for-profit industry association that supports the appropriate development of wind energy in Canada and whose goal is to see 20 per cent of Canada's electricity demand supplied by energy wind by 2025.