Les télécommunications, et en particulier le mobile, ont connu leur extraordinaire floraison en tablant massivement sur les investissements dans les infrastructures terrestres. Mais l'espace possède aussi des atouts.

Ouvrant la voie à l'informatique distribuée par réseau, la prochaine génération de l'Internet devrait pouvoir répondre aux besoins croissants de la recherche et de l'industrie en matière de calcul et de traitement de données. Vers un "World Wide Grid" : tel est le pari tenu par les promoteurs européens des technologies Grid - dont le CERN, où fut déjà développé le WWW.

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Whereas Europe's market may now be 'single', its sky still has a long way to go. The prospect of growing congestion on air routes and at airports - with the underlying threat to safety - is making it essential to develop the technology and regulations to provide an efficient and reliable system, offering increased capacity and incorporating all aspects of air traffic management. This is a top priority at the heart of Europe's aeronautics research.
 

Our accumulated knowledge of the workings of the human brain has become so complex that it can no longer be understood without recourse to computer modelling of the cerebral functioning.
 

Working with the real and assessing in the virtual. Twin-Objects, for use in technological education, represent major progress compared to traditional simulation programs. They were developed by a group of teachers, educationalists, psychologists and computer experts working on the Brevie project.
 

Is there reason to fear the effect of mobile phones on the brain ? Although scientists have no proof that mobiles are harmful, neither are they prepared to commit themselves to their absolute long-term safety. In an attempt to remove the doubts, this year saw the launch of the first large-scale international epidemiological study.
 

To win the confidence of companies and consumers in Internet trading, technology must not only create solid safeguards but also develop new guarantees of protection and recourse in the event of computer crime.
 

Europe's mobile telecommunications research over the past decade has put it in pole position in time for the changeover to Internet access from mobile terminals. This gives it a considerable advantage in the next leap forward in the 'new economy'.
 

Telecommunications, television, transport, management of natural resources and the environment, security... Today, a growing number of activities are based on space technologies as the whole sector undergoes a radical restructuring and becomes increasingly market oriented. The time has therefore come to implement a "European space strategy" based on increased synergy between institutions, agencies, research centres, industry and users.
 

The European Union's Galileo project for a global navigation satellite system is crucial to European independence and competitiveness.
 

Broadband communication systems offer a real possibility for fundamental change in the way that distributed organisations interact and inter-company transactions are carried out. But their use has to be tailored to SME capabilities and needs.
 

A strange frontier divides automation into two fields. On the one hand you have the engineers in South-East Asia who swear by "fuzzy" control. On the other, the European and US champions of automated systems based on traditional linear control. The Famimo project sets aside any such partisanship and puts the industrial promise of "fuzzy" systems to the test.