GALILEO - call II
The second call covers applications in fields such as location-based services, and road, maritime, aviation and rail applications. It also caters for niche markets such as multi-modal transport, emergency management, law enforcement, energy, scientific research, agriculture, land survey and civil engineering. Particular attention will be paid to the involvement of small and medium size enterprises.
The second call is structured in three areas - user segment development, mission definition and implementation, and innovation and international initiatives. An information day will take place in Brussels on June 2, 2004, for companies, research centres and enterprises interested in these activities.
GALILEO was launched on the initiative of the European Commission and developed jointly with the European Space Agency (ESA). To date radio-navigation technology has only been available through the military GPS (USA) and GLONASS (Russia) systems. GALILEO programme, by contrast, will be administered and controlled by civilian authorities and offers a guarantee of quality and continuity which is essential for many applications.
http://www.cordis.lu/en/home.html
http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/energy_transport/galileo
http://www.galileoju.com
