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Institute for Advanced Materials Annual Report 2000 (2001)

Auteur	Joint Research Centre
Datum	2001
Classificatie	1.01.8.51/14 (OLP - HFR PETTEN)
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FOREWORD

The year 2000 presented a variety of challenges to the Institute for Advanced 
Materials. Whilst work continued to ensure that the mission of the Joint Research 
Centre, "to provide customer-driven scientific and technical support for the 
conception, development, implementation and monitoring of EU policies", was 
fully respected, the institute has also been the subject of a number of important 
assessments and reviews.

The latest review was conducted as a follow-up to the Commission's Peer Group 
and it was designed to assess the merits of the institute's work programme. This 
assessment was supported by the results of former evaluations and it concluded 
that the Institute should further focus and concentrate activities in two key areas. 
Efforts will therefore be concentrated to build on the institute's already excellent 
competencies in nuclear safety, and in the non-nuclear energy related activities 
the focus will be on the abatement of emissions from waste incinerators. The 
institute has been reorganised to take these recommendations on board.

The projects falling under the EU Fifth Framework Programme for Research, FP5, 
entered their second year. These institutional projects are clustered around three 
main themes: emission reduction technologies, structural safety and nuclear 
medicine. Major project milestones over the year include the signature of the 
Memorandum of Understanding with the European Council for Automotive 
Research and Development (EUCAR) and the Oil Companies' European 
Organisation for Environment, Health and Safety (CONCAWE), the set-up of three 
new networks PREWIN, EMIR and HTR-TN, and the expansion of all the Institute
 Networks to include members from the Central and Eastern European countries. 
These milestones are detailed in the second part of this report dealing with the 
individual project descriptions, which also contain the major scientific and 
technical achievements.

Participation in Shared Cost Action (SCA) programmes has been highly successful 
with the institute submitting 28 project proposals and having more than satisfied 
the institute's targets with a success rate of over 40%.

The year 2000 was the first year of the High Flux Reactor (HFR) Supplementary 
Programme and a high level of 288 days of operation was achieved. The details of 
this and other related items can be found in the separate HFR Annual Report.

Quality improvement initiatives proceeded well in 2000 as the institute completed 
its first self-assessment according to the European Foundation for Quality 
Management (EFQM) model and subsequently launched 6 improvement teams. 
The institute's ISO 9001 certification was re-confirmed and benchmarking 
exercises with two Finnish research institutes are ongoing.

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