Following an introduction by the Chair of the COST Technical Committee on Social Sciences and Humanities, Bogdan VAN DONINCK, the Committee held an exchange of views on mutual benefits originating from the recently more intensified cooperation between COST and the ESF, since the ESF took responsibility from early this year as implementing agent to COST, providing the scientific management of COST Actions.

Project co-ordinated by Prof. Alan Morris of Cranfield University in Bedford (UK) in association with researchers from QinetiQ Limited in Farnborough, the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils in Didcot, BAE Systems (Operations) Ltd in Preston ( UK), Delft University of Technology and the Dutch National Foundation for Air and Land Transportation Laboratories in Marknesse (the Netherlands), the German Centre for Air and Land Transportation in Göttingen, EADS Deutschland GmbH in München, TU Braunschwieg, TU München, the Universities of Stuttgart and Siegen and the Institute for Air and Land Transportation of TU Berlin (Germany); and ...[+++] SAAB AB in Linköping and Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan in Stockholm (Sweden).

[13] The other agencies are not suitable for opening up to the SAP countries either because, like the European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR) or the European Training Foundation (ETF), they run assistance programmes covering part or all of the western Balkans, or because they have a technical remit or function relating exclusively to EU internal policies and the internal market, e.g. the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, the European Agenc ...[+++]y for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products, the European Food Safety Agency, Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (trade marks and designs), the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, the Community Plant Variety Office and the Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union.

[7] ESF: European Science Foundation; ESA: European Space Agency; EMBO: European Molecular Biology Organisation; EMBL: European Molecular Biology Laboratory; CERN: European Organisation for Nuclear Research; ESO: European Southern Observatory; ESRF: European Synchrotron Radiation Facility; ILL: Institut Laue-Langevin; .COST: European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research

first, to extend the remit of the Turin Foundation to cover Mediterreanean third countries and territories for which financial and technical measures were defined in the MEDA Regulation; secondly, in view of the development of the Foundation's activities, to make certain functional adjustments.

–first, to extend the remit of the Turin Foundation to cover Mediterreanean third countries and territories for which financial and technical measures were defined in the MEDA Regulation; –secondly, in view of the development of the Foundation's activities, to make certain functional adjustments.