NATF MISSIONS CONSIST OF:

• Producing Proposals and Recommendations for an optimum use of technologies, for the general benefit of Mankind.
• Shedding light on emerging technologies, on related strategic policy decisions, thereby providing an independent approach that draws on numerous, varied and highly-qualified sources. 
• Contributing to ongoing societal debates as to the supposed benefits that accrue from implementing technologies, future prospects, not forgetting the issues of associate risk factors.
• Contributing to analyses in regard to training and educational questions, both for vocational and technology intensive areas.
• Enhancing the perceived image of technologies per se and new job qualifications of interest to both younger generations and their parents.
• To raise the level of general interest and understanding by the public at large, through inputs to the information campaigns.

PUBLICS CONCERNED -

NATF addresses those segments of the public that participate in societal debates, wherever technologies are involved:

       Politicians on both national and international scenes and likewise at regional and local levels,

       Leaders of opinion, press and major Associations/Charities/Foundations,

       Industrialists, entrepreneurs and professional federations and unions,

       The education sector: teachers, students, pupils – and their parents.

 Cf. Speech by newly elected President Prof. Alain POMPIDOU, inaugural session January 14, 2009