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The Competitive and Sustainable Growth (GROWTH) Programme ran from 1998 to 2002 under the Fifth Framework Programme(FP5). Funding for industrial research is now covered by the thematic priorities of the Sixth Framework Programme(FP6) from 2002 to 2006, designed to support the creation of a European Research Area:

FP5 Generic Activity 3: Measurements and testing has been distributed through all the thematic priorities of FP6.

The following text was first published in March 2000.

Measurements and testing

The measurements and testing activity provides generic support for the Growth Programme as well to other FP5 actions to facilitate implementation of EU policies. The action addresses three socio-economic objectives:

Standardisation - developing and validating measurement and testing methods and producing scientific and technical data needed to define performance, reliability and safety requirements for products and services.
Fighting fraud - developing measurement and testing methods to detect and prevent fraud and to protect the economic interests of enterprises and society as well as the health and safety of citizens.
Improving quality - developing new and better measurement and testing methods to improve the quality of industrial products and services as well as establishing international traceability and equivalencies to help dismantle barriers to international trade.

Articles

	Measurements and testing - past, present and future

	Measurements and testing take centre stage at major European conference
	Warsaw conference: Towards an integrated infrastructure for measurements - Warsaw, Poland - 18-19 June 2002
	Metropolis – Major measurements and testing network launched
	SMEs take the lead in high temperature micromaterial testing
	Setting standards for mechanical behaviour at high temperatures
	Expressions of interest - the M&T experience
	Measuring up in the ERA
	Simulating metal forming processes
	In good measure
	Mastering measurement
	Aspiring to higher standards
	New website takes the lead in the fight against doping in sport
	Straight answers from qualitative chemical analysis
	Food Fraud: detecting food law cheats
	Cation mass spectrometry: Europe takes a leading role
	Something in the water
	Food Safety: European projects on display in Gembloux
	European research and the fight against crime
	The need for Metrology in Nanotechnology
	Weighing the evidence
	Feature on Metrology in the spotlight at the INERIS conference
	Feature on Anti-doping: the fight against performance-enhancing drugs in sport
	Using the web against cheaters
	Sharper weapon for fighting drugs
	New standards for drug testing
	Testing the drug testers (Support for Research Infrastructures project)
	Feature on Metrology: measurements and testing tools for the future Europe
	European Conference on Measurements and Testing
	Press release: Implementation agree ment signed with NIST
	Strategies against doping in sport
	Lasers highlight the cracks in antique art
	DNA profiling standards catch offenders

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Main researchobjectives

Instrumentation
Development of new and improved instrumentation and measuring systems, including software, providing improved performance and reliability, intelligent operation and cost efficiency for use in the field or on production lines.

Methodologies
Development and improvement of measurement and testing methods, sampling strategies and databases and production of the scientific and technical data required for the definition of performance, reliability and safety requirements.

Certified Reference Materials (CRMs)
Development of the ability to produce and certify reference materials to be used for identification, calibration and quality control in physical, chemical and biological measurements and testing.