Brussels, 31 Jan 2006 The governing body of the proposed European Research Council (ERC), the Scientific Council, met on 24 and 25 January in order to discuss its scientific strategy and operating...
Greenfield to be made Heriot-Watt chancellor Lady Greenfield, the first woman to become director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, is to be installed as the new chancellor of Heriot-Watt...
Brussels, 30 Jan 2006 Seeing an opportunity to boost research funding without asking more of either governments or industry, the European Commission has funded a study on the potential role of...
Brussels, 30 Jan 2006 The European Commission is organising a conference on the role of foundations and private philanthropy in the field of research, to take place on and 28 March in Brussels,...
Brussels, 30 Jan 2006 An experiment to assess the potential impact of climate change on the concentration of toxic algae in freshwater systems has been launched in the UK as part of a 20 million euro...
Students forced to sign 'I'll try harder' contracts Oxford is to become the first university in Britain to protect itself from litigious students by introducing legally-binding contracts requiring...
Deadline: 30/04/2006
Deadline: 01/04/2006
Brussels, Jan 2006 Academia Europaea will run an international symposium on quality assessment in institutions of higher education in Pavia, Italy, from 23 to 25 March. The conference will deliver an...
Brussels, Jan 2006 During the last four years the European Commission has successfully supported the creation of an EU-wide network of national, European and international players engaged in...
Brussels, Jan 2006 At a conference in Brussels last week, Jan Bosch, a board member of the Networked European Software and Services Initiative (NESSI) Technology Platform, which proposes to aid...
Brussels, Jan 2006 Molecular motor based on redox reactions A single molecule working as the nano scale version of the steam engine: that's the molecular motor developed by a group of UT scientists...
Brussels, Jan 2006 Let a micro droplet dance, and the electric charge on the droplet can be regulated very accurately. During this 'spontaneous oscillation', the droplet touches an electrode...
Washington, Jan 2006 A preliminary decision by a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel on the U.S. challenge of the European Union (EU) moratorium on approvals for crops derived from biotechnology is...
Paris, Jan 2006 Animated diagram of leaf area index An ambitious ESA project to chart ten years in the life of the Earth's vegetation has reached a midway point, with participants and end-users...