It never ceases to amaze me how the EU has managed to disperse its Web sites so much that I always find it difficult to get to the information I need quickly.

This short guide to the various EU sites that are relevant to health informatics aims to guide you quickly through the EU maze.

The abbreviations explained:

EU: European Union
DG: Directorate General
CORDIS: Community Research and Development Information Service
ISPO: Information Society Project Office
TAP: Telematics Applications Programme

The sites:

• EU main site: Europa
  The main EU server covering all institutions.  The site carries news, policies, institutions, documents and the multilingual official public information.
  
• CORDIS
  CORDIS carries everything on R&D and industrial policies, call for tenders, projects, partners, publications, events and the 4th and 5th Framework focus

• I'M Europe
  Site for DGXIII,  Info2000, TAPand TEN.
  
  The TAP pages carry calls, events, documents, guidelines, model contract and various forms.

• ISPO
  This site carries all material from DGIII and XIII on the 'Information Society', calls, projects, the G7 projects and GIP (Global Inventory Project).
  
• TAP