Brussels, 03/06/2004 (Agence Europe) - The GALILEO Joint Undertaking launched the second call for proposals for research activities dedicated to GALILEO, with an overall budget of €67 million. The aim is to support the development of applications and user receivers to exploit the European satellite radio-navigation programme. The first call for proposals for GALILEO under the 6th Research Framework Programme was a success with eight large research activities beginning in 2003 and totalling €19 million. This second call for proposals covers applications in traditional fields such as location based services, road transport, maritime transport and aviation and rail applications. It also caters for niche markets such as in multi-modal transport, emergency management and law enforcement, energy, scientific research, agriculture, land survey and civil engineering, etc. Particular attention will be paid to the involvement of small and medium size enterprises. The second call is structured in three areas: User segment development; Mission definition and implementation; Innovation and international initiatives.