Press Release: Commission grants EUR 78 million to tailor grid technology and services to EU business needs

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Series Details IP/06/1201 (18.9.06)
Publication Date 18/09/2006
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The European Commission will launch on 19 September 2006 in Brussels 23 new research projects on "Grid" technologies with a total EU funding of €78 million. Grid technologies work by linking up thousands of computers and devices dynamically, to provide information processing power on demand, and more flexibly and cheaply than ever before. For several years already, EU-funded research in this area has been helping European industry to deliver high quality, competitive goods and services in, the automotive, aeronautics, financial, pharmaceutical and media sectors.

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European Commission: DG Communication: MEMO/06/331 http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/06/331&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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