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Sussex prepares for crunch meeting on chemistry A rescue plan for the embattled chemistry department at the University of Sussex will go before an emergency academic meeting next month where its fate...
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Commissioner Neelie Kroes: βLess and better state aid for growth and jobs β the new rules on research, development and innovation, and risk capitalβ, Informal Competitiveness Council
Graz, 21st April 2006 Let me start by thanking you, Martin, and the Austrian Presidency, for so warmly welcoming us here in Graz. You are right to have launched a debate on what is probably the most...
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Amendments for the Report on sectoral aspects of the State Aid Action Plan: aid for innovation (link)
Brussels, 21 Apr 2006 Amendments 001-013 Amendments 014-015 Link to the Report European Parliament
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EP Briefing 26-27 April 2006: State aid for innovation should be an exception, but has its place (Own-initiative)
Brussels, 21 Apr 2006 The use of state aid to promote innovation should remain the exception rather than the rule according to own initiative report from the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee...
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Call for chemical industry to 'emerge from the Middle Ages'
Brussels, 21 Apr 2006 The European chemical industry is in urgent need of modernisation, according to Andrzej Stankiewicz, inaugurated as the new Professor of Process Intensification at the Technical...
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First biosimilar drug on the EU market
Brussels, 21 Apr 2006 The first ever biosimilar drug - developed with complex biological molecules that are similar, but not identical, to biotechnology medicines already authorised - has been...
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Open call for COST proposals to support European cooperation in scientific and technical research field (OJ link)
Brussels, 21 April 2006 COST Open Call for Proposals to Support European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research (OJ C93/1 21.4.2006). Full text [...] COST brings together...
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DG Energy's overview of FP6 demonstration projects for sustainable energy systems (link)
Brussels, 21 April 2006 Overview of FP6 Demonstration Projects (Sustainable Energy Systems) Links to: Crrescendo - Combined Rational and Renewable Energy Strategies in Cities, for Existing and New...
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Updated financial guidelines for coordinators and co-beneficiaries in Intelligent Energy programme (link)
Brussels, 21 April 2006 Intelligent Energy - Europe 2003-2006 Financial guidelines for co-ordinators and co-beneficiaries (Type 1 and Type 2) - version 3 from 19 April 2006 with updated information...
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Draft Summary Conclusions of the 307th Meeting of the Scientific and Technical Research Committee (CREST) Held in Brussels on 17 March 2006 (link)
Brussels, 21 Apr 2006 Full text of Document 1203/06 Suite of documents 1203/06 The meeting was chaired by Mr José SILVA RODRIGUEZ (European Commission, Director General for Research), Mr...
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Molecular imaging society starts up in Paris, 17-19 May
Brussels, 21 Apr 2006 The European Society for Molecular Imaging (ESMI) holds its kick-off meeting in Paris, France, from 17 to 19 May. ESMI is an attempt by influential actors from academia, biotech...
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Hands off our ovaries -- Brussels, 3 May
Brussels, 21 Apr 2006 A colloquium entitled 'Hands Off Our Ovaries' will take place in Brussels on 3 May' The event will include a number of feminist writers, who will discuss the reproductive...
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Today's news
Car bombs kill six in Baghdad university Four car bombs hit Baghdad on Monday, killing at least six people and wounding almost 50, police said. Two blasts occurred near the Mustansiriya University,...
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Peace, love and improved ratings
Racially and culturally prejudiced academics are bad for university research ratings, according to the vice-chancellor who drafted guidelines on promoting good campus relations. Les Ebdon, vice-...
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Lawyers to cash in if degrees derailed
Lawyers are using the increasingly bitter academic pay dispute to show students how they could sue institutions for "breach of contract" if their degree course is disrupted, it emerged this week....