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Europe 2020

The European Commission's strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth.

Europe 2020 is the European Union’s growth strategy driven by seven ‘flagships’ that aim to improve the EU economies and address citizens’ most important needs.


The first of these, the Digital Agenda flagship, aims to reboot Europe's economy, make it more competitive, and help Europe's citizens and SMEs get the most out of information and communication technology (ICT). Another flagship, the Innovation Union, aims to turn innovative ideas into tangible growth by improving support for R&D in Europe. Youth On The Move – a third flagship – aims to enhance the performance of higher education institutions and increase mobility in Europe among students and trainees.

We, at Microsoft together with our ecosystem, have been contributing to the Europe 2020 Strategy for more research and development, more innovation, more growth, better education, and better solutions that foster energy efficiency.

LATEST MICROSOFT.EU POSTS DISCUSSING THE EUROPE 2020:
Jan Muehlfeit

EU for high quality learning: Updates from the High Level Group on the Modernisation of Higher Education

Jan Muehlfeit, Chairman of Microsoft Europe - 04 April 2013

You’ve all seen the figures over the past year and more that show high youth unemployment across some European Union Member States. But do people know that technology can have an enabling role in Europe and beyond? 
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Jasmin Fisher

Computation helps understand cancer

Jasmin Fisher, Researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge, Programming Principles & Tools group - 20 June 2012

The decade of genomic revolution following the complete determination of the human DNA sequence, has produced significant medical advances, and yet again, revealed how complicated human biology is, and how much more remains to be understood. Biology is an extraordinary complicated puzzle; we may know some of its pieces but have no clue how they are assembled to orchestrate the symphony of life, which...
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Per Werngren

Efficient legislative network for prospering European SMEs

Per Werngren, CEO, Idenet AB - 30 March 2012

I believe that SMEs are key to Europe’s economic recovery and I have several reasons that support my thinking. The first reason is sheer volume: there are almost 21 million SMEs in the European Union and 90 % of these have fewer than ten employees. Imagine the potential if every SME could hire just one more person!
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Ron Zink

Big ideas for growth and innovation

Ron Zink, Associate General Counsel - 17 October 2011

How can we make our economies succeed, provide jobs and build for the future?  These are the big questions on government leaders’ minds this year – not to mention those of business and of people everywhere.
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