With a view, then, to making maximum use of the resources available, increasing the economic spin-offs and thus helping to make European industry more competitive and enhance the quality of life, this framework programme will give priority, in the light of the conclusions of the Edinburgh European Council, to ensuring: - greater integration between national and Community RTD activities, in particular by means of improved coordination of Member States' participation in major international projects and with the research conducted by various European organizations (ESA, CERN, etc.); - closer cooperation between Community RTD activities and those carried out under EUREKA, with particular emphasis on strategic projects which combine the develop
...[+++]ment of key technologies with research which is close to the market; - greater concentration of RTD activity within each sector on a smaller number of problems and generic technologies with a multi-sector impact, particularly in the field of industrial technologies, but also in the field of life sciences and technologies. For the first time research will be conducted in a structured fashion on transport, the problems linked to evaluating technologies, and social issues; - improved dissemination of research findings, in particular to SMEs (networks, European infrastructure for technology transfer, etc.) in order to improve the record of European companies in translating scientific breakthroughs into commercial success.