CREDIT-METDAC Workshop with the Aspen Institute, Berlin

Civil-Military Technological Integration in Europe:
Current Practice and Future Prospects, 27-28 May 1999

Aspen Institute Berlin, Inselstrasse 10, D-14129 Berlin

Introduction

CREDIT is a European network of researchers which worked together on issues of defence technology management since 1991. Our chief activity between 1998 and 2000 was work under thematic network funding from the European Commission on Managing European Technology: Defence and Competitiveness Issues (METDAC). The first phase of that work - reported at a workshop in Budapest in October 1998 - put European defence RTD into context and comprised an overview of the principal issues involved, a number of country studies and a review of the availability of published data contributing to the analysis of change. A number of discussion papers from that work are published on the network's website and those country studies which are not yet published are available from authors.

The Berlin workshop reported on the second phase of METDAC work which focused on Civil-Military Integration in Europe. The papers e presented analysed current practice and future prospects against the background of military and industrial links with the United States, and developing relations with Central and Eastern Europe.

The workshop was the first planned activity of CREDIT's User Forum. The forum is intended to be the main mechanism for policymakers and practitioners in government and industry to learn about the network's results and to contribute to setting its future research targets.

Workshop programme, 27-28 May 1999

Note: each of the half hour presentation slots in the programme break down as 20 minutes for presentation, and ten minutes for questions and discussion specific to each paper. The scheduled general discussion sessions are intended to allow broader points to be developed.

Thursday 27 May

Friday 28 May