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How to Achieve Sustainable Future for Europe

Ac cord ing to the Lis bon dec la ra tion from 2000 the goal of Eu ro pean Un ion is to be - come by 2010 the most com pet i tive and dy namic knowl edge-driven econ omy and by 2025 a sus tain able knowl edge so ci ety. The EU how ever faces some strong chal - lenges on the road to ward these goals and is ev i dently lag ging be hind both USA and Ja pan. Our anal y sis is based on six di men sions of these chal lenges, in clud ing the eco nomic chal lenge, the de mo graphic chal lenge, the sci en tific chal lenge, the chal lenge of higher ed u ca tion, the chal lenge of Eu ro pean gov er nance and iden - tity/sys tem of val ues, and the en vi ron men tal/ecotechnological chal lenge. We ar gue that if we are to pro vide a sus tain able se cure en vi ron ment and pros per ity for next gen er a tions, we have to act now at least with de vel op ments in par tic u lar in the di - rec tion of clean, cheap, and re new able en ergy sources with an em pha sis on ba sic, cu ri os ity driven re search which through sci en tific break throughs, is the only re al is - tic so lu tion to solv ing world’ s en ergy re quire ments. Such an ac tion could for ex am - ple fa cil i tate the tran si tion from fos sil fu els to so lar power in a rel a tively short time of about two de cades, and help EU achieve its de clared sustainability tar gets.

sustainable development ; R&D policy ; solar energy

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