ESPRIT is an acronym for the European Strategic Program on Research in Information Technology of the European Union, run by the Directorate General for Industry of the European Commission.
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ESPRIT was superseded by the Information Society Technologies (IST) programme, see http://www.cordis.lu/ist/home.html.
