Key activities shall be to provide excellent and innovative training to early-stage researchers at post-graduate level through interdisciplinary projects, including mentoring to transfer knowledge and experience between researchers or doctoral programmes, helping researchers to develop their research career and involving universities, research institutions, research infrastructures, businesses, SMEs and other socio-economic groups from different Member States, associated countries and/or third countries.

Key activities shall be to provide excellent and innovative training to early-stage researchers at post-graduate level through interdisciplinary projects, including mentoring to transfer knowledge and experience between researchers or doctoral programmes, helping researchers to develop their research career and involving universities, research institutions, research infrastructures, businesses, SMEs and other socio-economic groups from different Member States, associated countries and/or third countries.

8. Reminds the parties of the commitments they made in Annapolis to hold negotiations in good faith with a view to concluding by the end of 2008 a peace treaty resolving all outstanding issues and calls for swift and tangible results on the ground, including the respect of Israel's right to live in security and the establishment of a viable Palestinian State; encourages the trilateral cooperation between the European Union, the Israeli and the Palestinian authorities in key policy areas, in line with the EC-Israel Association Agreement and the EC-PLO Interim Association Agreement, which can promote peace and people-to-people contacts; calls on Israel, in this context, to fully respect the EC-PLO Interim Association Agreement, to lift all ...[+++]impediments to its implementation and to facilitate the participation of individuals – with special regard to students and researchers –, companies and other organisations based in the Occupied Palestinian Territory in Community programme projects under the cooperation between the EU and the Palestinian Authority by removing administrative and physical obstacles and by ensuring the free movement of the persons concerned;

Most researchers start as PhD students, proceed as post-docs, researchers or assistant professors, and are then promoted to associate professor with some ultimately becoming full professors, as seen in Figure 3.1.

I reiterate the idea by talking about a ‘European area of researchers’, in other words a single job market that could be organised partly through the creation of a European researchers’ association or an umbrella organisation of researchers’ associations, which could be a useful body for enhancing their role in the European context.

- Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships - these will allow the most promising research workers from EU and Associated Countries to undertake training through research in the European organisations most appropriate to their individual needs.