Betreff: Research funding for electromagnetic radiation |
Von: Eileen O'Connor |
Datum: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:35:50 +0100 |
Dear
Friend,
This
Thursday (June 15th) Members of the European Parliament will vote to
decide on
the European Union's research priorities for 2007-2013. Green MEPs,
including
Dr Caroline Lucas, Green Party MEP for South East England have
submitted an amendment
to the text that will be voted on. The amendment concerns
monitoring some of the impacts of electro-magnetic radiation. Your
help is
needed to get enough MEPs to vote for the amendment and
secure funds
for this desperately needed work.
Please
email all your regional MEPs (details from http://www.europarl.org.uk/uk_meps/MembersMain.htm)
about this. Send your email to all the email addresses listed on
the
weblink to be certain the message reaches the MEPs as they travel from
Thank
you for your help.
Eileen.
AMENDMENT
<NumAm>329</NumAm>
by <Members>David
Hammerstein Mintz, Caroline Lucas and Satu Hassi</Members><AuNomDe>,
{VERT}on
behalf of the Verts/ALE Group</AuNomDe>
<TitreType>Report</TitreType>
A6-0202/2006
<Rapporteur>Jerzy
Buzek</Rapporteur>
<Titre>Seventh
framework programme (2007-2013)</Titre>
<TitreRecueil>Proposal
for a decision (COM(2005)0119 – C6-0099/2005 – 2005/0043(COD))</TitreRecueil>
Text
proposed by the Commission |
|
Amendment
by Parliament |
Amendment
<NumAm>329</NumAm>
<Article>Annex I, Chapter
I,
"Cooperation", theme 3 "Information and Communication
Technologies", subtitle "Rationale", paragraph 2</Article>
The
escalating economic and societal demands, together with the continued
mainstreaming of ICT and the need to push further the technology limits
set a growing agenda for research. To bring technology closer to people
and organisational needs means: hiding technology complexity and
revealing functionality on demand; making technology very simple to
use, available and affordable; providing new ICT-based applications,
solutions and services that are trusted, reliable, and adaptable to the
users’ context and preferences. Driven by the demand of more-for-less,
ICT researchers are involved in a global race to achieve further
miniaturisation, to master the convergence of computing, communications
and media technologies, and the convergence with other relevant
sciences and disciplines, and to build systems that are able to learn
and evolve. From these diverse efforts a new wave of technologies is
emerging. ICT research activities will also draw on a broader range of
scientific and technological disciplines including bio- and life
sciences, psychology, pedagogy, cognitive and social sciences. |
The
escalating economic and societal demands, together with the continued
mainstreaming of ICT and the need to push further the technology limits
as
well as to develop innovative high-value ICT-based products and
services, set a growing agenda for research. To bring
technology closer to people and organisational needs means: hiding
technology complexity and making technology
functional; making technology very simple to use,
available and affordable and accessible for all,
including for disabled persons; providing new ICT-based
applications, solutions and services that are trusted, reliable, and
adaptable to the users’ context and preferences; using ICT for
sustainable development, particularly in the management of transport,
in conservation of energy and in natural resource use. Current ICT
research focuses on miniaturisation, mastering
convergence of computing, communications and media technologies, including system
interoperability, and convergence
with other relevant sciences and disciplines, and on building
systems that are able to learn and evolve. From these diverse efforts a
new wave of technologies is emerging. ICT research activities will also
contribute
to a broader range of scientific and technological
disciplines including biology,
chemistry
and life sciences, psychology, pedagogy, cognitive and social
sciences, as
well as monitor closely any possible impacts of ICT technologies on
human health and wellbeing, in particular the effects of
electromagnetic radiation. |
Or. <Original>{EN}en</Original>
Justification
Given the rapid pace of innovation and change
in this
area it is essential that the perspective and input of disabled users
is
integrated horizontally across the bulk of information society projects
both in
respect of ICT innovations for goods/equipment and services as well as
the
interplay between assistive technologies and universal design.
Cath Miller
Constituency Co-ordinator and Researcher
Office of Dr Caroline Lucas MEP
Phone:
02074076281 Fax: 02072340183
Email: carolinelucas@greenmeps.org.uk
Website: www.carolinelucasmep.org.uk
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