New Framework Contract for Providing Scientific Services on TA for the European Parliament starting in 2014 [23.06.2014]

After a call for tenders for a framework contract covering the coming years of TA activities of the European Parliament's Science and Technology Options Assessment Panel (STOA), it has now been decided that the European Technology Assessment Group (ETAG) represented by ITAS will continue to support TA activities at the European Parliament by providing TA expertise in the following areas:

Transport
Nanoscale Science and Technology
Life Sciences for Human Well-being
Agriculture, Food and Biotechnology
Science, Technology and Innovation Policy
Safety and Security Technologies

The new framework contract started in March 2014. For the new period, ITAS will cooperate with the following ETAG Partners:

Teknologirådet, The Danish Board of Technology (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Rathenau Institute (The Hague, The Netherlands)
Institute for Technology Assessment (Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna, Austria)
VITO, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (Mol, Belgium)
Technology Centre AS CR (Prague, Czech Republic)
Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (Karlsruhe, Germany)