ESPRIT

ESPRIT is an acronym for the European Strategic Program on Research in Information Technology of the European Community, run by the Directorate General of the European Union.

ESPRIT developed the initial version of SAMPA.

See: http://www.cordis.lu/esprit/home.html (defunct).

ESPRIT was superseded by the Information Society Technologies (IST) programme, see http://www.cordis.lu/ist/home.html.