In February 1991, the European Society for Engineering and Medicine was founded in Nice, France, after consultation with some European Societies, to assure fruitful cooperation. This paper describes the objectives of ESEM and the historical context; its position with respect to related European and national societies will be explained. The internal organisation of ESEM reflects its intention to...

Support for interpersonal cooperation in large, geographically distributed organizations is one of the great challenges for the infomation and communications technologies of the future. Cooperation problems are similar everywhere: in large economic enterprises; amongst the governments of the European states; and in the German federal and state governments, whose ministries are distributed geogr...

Workshop on ethics and communication in Copenhagen 11–13.3.2007 The European Environment and Health Strategy adopted by the European Commission in 2003 presented a new vision on how to address environment and health in an integrated way by putting health in the centre of environmental policy. Based upon the Strategy the Commission adopted in 2004 a Communication on the Environment and Health Ac...

This paper presents empirical evidence on firms’ decisions to cooperate in R&D and the extent to which government sponsored R&D programs increase cooperation. Using a sample of firms from the Spanish innovation survey we jointly estimate the determinants of firm participation in R&D programs and of choice of cooperation partners. We find that (i) firms participating in national and European pro...

The interaction of monetary and fiscal policies is a crucial issue in a highly integrated economic area as the European Union. We investigate to which extent the EMU, that introduced a common monetary policy and restrictions on fiscal policy at the national level, benefits from macroeconomic policy cooperation due to the various interactions, spillovers and externalities from national macroecon...

The relative permittivity of LCP material has been characterized within the whole 60 GHz frequency band using the microstrip ring resonator (MRR) method. Using a circuit model, the gap capacitance of the MRR has been taken into account in order to improve the accuracy of the determined relative permittivity. The results show that the relative permittivity of LCP is almost constant (εr ≈ 3.1) wi...

In this paper I intend to touch a few initiatives recently promoted and carried out in Europe with the aim of strengthening the cooperation between the communities – until now mostly separated – of Spoken and Written language processing. I give some thoughts to the current state-of-the-art with respect to initiatives common to the two areas, in particular within ENABLER, ELSNET, and ELRA. Doing...

To dimension cellular wireless networks, accurate estimates of the cell throughput have to be available. Consideration of all requirements of future packet-switched networks, especially the impact of scheduling, leads to extensive system level simulations that have to be performed in order to obtain the cell throughput. A semi-analytical methodology is proposed in this paper that is able to giv...

European integration has had a dual impact on border regions. On the one hand, borders were physically dismantled across most of the EU’s internal territory. On the other hand, they have become a fertile ground for territorial co-operation and institutional innovation. The degree of cross-border co-operation and organization achieved varies considerably from one region to another depending on a...

This paper proposes simplified antenna model and a position estimating approximation for a system level simulation of advanced handover protocols with smart antennas. This models have been implemented in our simulation tool MOSIT that is based on the Specification and Description Language SDL (ITU Z.100). One application of our simulation tool is the examination of a new approach for a advanced...