"The work in international cooperation and development is particularly challenging because it calls for knowledge of social geography, communications, and intercultural affairs--in addition to specialist scientific knowledge."
"Increasingly, agencies hire people from a wide range of disciplines and with very varied backgrounds, which allows a number of different perspectives to be brought to any problem."
Just as during the past decade many scientists became convinced that nanotechnology would revolutionize our world, so the politicians have followed: In the 6th Framework Programme of the EU, nanotechnology will be one of the key areas.