InterLink aims at advancing Europe’s knowledge in a number of critical research areas, at promoting European solutions and knowledge world-wide and at influencing the way research in these areas will evolve internationally. Towards these goals, InterLink supports coordination actions that will enable the European research community to interact with research communities outside Europe in a series of strategic, basic research areas that were identified by the FET co-ordinated action Beyond-The-Horizon, related to Information Society Technologies (IST) and provides the means and support mechanisms to link European research communities to the best research carried out in other developed countries in these areas.