Law may backfire on fixed term staff
Contract researchers fear that the research assessment exercise is hampering universities' efforts to switch staff from fixed-term contracts to permanent ones in line with European Union regulations...
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Who's in who's out?
ROEHAMPTON As witness to the ethnic "cleansing" practised by Serbian forces in the 1992-95 Bosnian war, Gregory Kent (pictured), a former journalist, will offer students a taste of reality when he...
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Grad UK seeks to ring-fence skills-training budget
University staff involved in training postgraduate research students and postdoctoral researchers are worried that they will lose ring-fenced funding for their work. Concerns that research council...
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Law may backfire on fixed term staff
Contract researchers fear that the research assessment exercise is hampering universities' efforts to switch staff from fixed-term contracts to permanent ones in line with European Union regulations...
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Greece instructed to discontinue its prohibition of MON 810 hybrid maize seeds (OJ link)
Brussels, 12 January 2006 Commission Decision of 10 January 2006 concerning the provisional prohibition in Greece of the marketing of seeds of maize hybrids with the genetic modification MON 810...
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First Galileo signals transmitted by GIOVE-A
Paris, 12 Jan 2006 The GIOVE-A satellite is in good health and started transmitting the first Galileo signals from medium Earth orbit on 12 January. GIOVE-A was placed in orbit (altitude 23,260 km)...
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GALILEO: EU and the Republic of Korea seal their agreement
Brussels, 12 January 2006 Following exchanges that lasted for six months, negotiations on the Republic of Korea’s participation in Europe’s satellite radionavigation programme...
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Innovation scoreboard: Mixed results
Brussels, 12 January 2006 The fifth edition of the European Innovation Scoreboard reveals that Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Germany and Denmark are the European innovation leaders. Most of the new...
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Working Document on Energy efficiency or doing more with less - Green Paper Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (link)
Brussels, 12 Jan 2006 WORKING DOCUMENT on Energy efficiency or doing more with less - Green Paper Committee on Industry, Research and Energy Rapporteur: Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca 15.12.2005 Full text...
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Can renewables avert an energy crisis?
Brussels, 12 Jan 2006 The depression of the 1930s spawned the phrase, 'When America sneezes, the rest of the world catches cold'. Today, in a more interconnected and interdependent world, economic...
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Five EU countries contribute to 22 million acre global increase in biotech crops
Brussels, 12 Jan 2006 Five EU Member States - Spain, Germany, France, Portugal, and the Czech Republic - were among the countries that contributed to a 22 million acre increase in the global...
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Czech Academy proposes new structure for ERC
Brussels, 12 Jan 2006 In three separate papers on the proposed European Research Council (ERC), simplification investing in knowledge, the Czech Academy of Sciences lays out how it sees European...
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Forests may confound Kyoto Protocol
Brussels, 12 Jan 2006 Methane is a known greenhouse gas, with 32 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide, and it plays a role in atmospheric oxidation chemistry as well as affecting...
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Agricultural engineering in the context of European research, Brussels
Brussels, 12 Jan 2006 A one-day workshop on agricultural engineering in the context of European research will be held in Brussels on 31 January. Organised by the German Association of Engineers,...
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Comet dust brought back to Earth: paving the way for Rosetta
Paris, 12 Jan 2006 Scientists around the world eagerly await the arrival of sample particles from Comet Wild 2, which are being brought back to Earth by the US Stardust spacecraft on 15 January this...