Geological disposal: Engineering studies and demonstration of repository designs, in situ characterisation of repository host rocks (in both generic and site-specific underground research laboratories), understanding of the repository environment, studies on relevant processes in the near field (waste form and engineered barriers) and far-field (bedrock and pathways to the biosphere), development of robust methodologies for performance and safety assessment and investigation of governance and societal issues related to public acceptance.

Geological disposal: Engineering studies and demonstration of repository designs, in situ characterisation of repository host rocks (in both generic and site-specific underground research laboratories), understanding of the repository environment, studies on relevant processes in the near field (waste form and engineered barriers) and far-field (bedrock and pathways to the biosphere), development of robust methodologies for performance and safety assessment and investigation of governance and societal issues related to public acceptance.

Geological disposal: Engineering studies and demonstration of repository designs, in situ characterisation of repository host rocks (in both generic and site-specific underground research laboratories), understanding of the repository environment, studies on relevant processes in the near field (waste form and engineered barriers) and far-field (bedrock and pathways to the biosphere), development of robust methodologies for performance and safety assessment and investigation of governance and societal issues related to public acceptance.

What is required, in other words, is an increase both on the product side and also of the volume of finance involved that enters the realm of financial engineering, in the knowledge – and against the backdrop of the overstretched budgets of the Member States – that, in this regard, we need to do more to develop products for private individuals in order to co-invest in certain regional projects, in particular, those that also guarantee a source of revenue, so that we leave other funding available for projects that are just as necessary but that cannot guarantee any revenue in that sense, such as investments in the education and training sector, in modernising universities and laboratories ...[+++] and so on.

3. Support for research, technology and innovation Aid from the ERDF includes various forms of equipment for glasshouses, workshops, laboratories, etc. at the Public University of Navarre (agronomy, industrial engineering and telecommunications) and laboratories, machinery, etc. for CETENASA.

The project recently approved by the Commission covers a wide range of support activities in education, notably : - European Community fund for the granting of study awards to students and teachers; - data-processing training programme; - precision engineering training centre; - Fellenberg Centre for training in industrial electronics; - centre for training in the maintenance of heavy equipment; - extension of the university library; - building and equipping of an engineering laboratory in the university; - labour training facilities.