The specific aims of PEER are:
■ to develop and promote joint strategies in environmental research in support of both EU and national policies;
■ to create synergies and critical mass to avoid redundant work, save resources and improve the competitiveness of European environmental research;
■ to promote collaboration within PEER, ensuring gender equality, knowledge and technology transfer, a dissemination of the scientific results and a close co-operation with policy-makers and other relevant stake-holders;
■ to build the capacity to integrate European environmental research databases with a focus on their interpretation and exploitation;
■ to create opportunities for the exchange of scientific personnel and the training of young scientists;
■ to support environmental research capacity building in third countries, especially the candidate countries of the European Union;
■ to facilitate large-scale research infrastructure such as research vessels and specialised laboratories that can be used by partner institutions throughout Europe;
■ to prepare and facilitate proposals for the instruments foreseen in the Framework Research Programmes of the European Union;
■ to develop management capacities for large-scale and long-term European research projects and programmes dedicated to complex problems.
■ to co-operate in other fields of activity that may arise from this co-operation, for example in joint task forces.
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