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Scots must stage U-turn on top-up fees, says professor A leading academic who sat on a review group which recommended the introduction of top-up tuition fees in Wales last night called on the...
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Biosafety: international meeting to adopt binding rules on trade in GMOs
Brussels, May 2005 Representatives of 119 governments are expected to adopt binding rules on the documentation that has to accompany genetically modified agricultural commodities, such as wheat,...
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Commissioner Janez POTOCNIK: Bringing ideas to the market: “Knowledge for Growth – the role of EU research” EIRMA annual conference
Copenhagen May, 2005 Ladies and gentlemen, I welcome the opportunity to speak to you today on the subject of “knowledge for growth” and on the role played by EU research. I wish to thank EIRMA very...
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EU research budget must be protected
Brussels, May 2005 Giles CHICHESTER (EPP-ED, UK), who chairs Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, has written to the President of Parliament, Josep BORRELL, expressing his...
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Agenda of the Research Working Party, 30 May 2005
Brussels, May 2005 Full text of Document 1942/05 1. Proposal for the 7th Framework Programme: continuation of the examination a) "Health" b) "Food" c) "Nanosciences" doc. 8087/05 RECH 80 ATO 45...
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Opinion by the Economic Policy Committee on the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme 2007-2013, and the 7th Framework Programme for Research 2007-2013 (link)
Brussels, May 2005 Full text of Document 9449/05 Suite of documents 9449/05 Subject: Opinion by the Economic Policy Committee on the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme 2007-2013, and...
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Coreper Report to the Competitiveness Council on Preparations for the Second "Space Council" and for the Future European Space Programme (link)
Brussels, May 2005 Full text of Document 9440/05 Suite of documents 9440/05 Subject: Space policy ­ Preparation of the second "Space Council" of 7 June 2005 ­ Approval of the...
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Policy makers target greater synergy between framework programme and Eureka
Brussels, May 2005 Europe's research ministers, as well as researchers themselves, have long bemoaned the lack of links and coordination between the EU's research framework programmes and Eureka, the...
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EU funding to help establish European nanoscience facility
Brussels, May 2005 In order to promote increased collaboration between nanoscience researchers in Europe, the EU is to part-finance the creation of a European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF...
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Workshop on multimodal biometrics
Brussels, May 2005 The BioSec Integrated Project is organising its third workshop on the theme 'Setting the path for multimodal biometrics and biometric applications', to be held on 16 and 17 June in...
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OECD Framework for Biotechnology Statistics (link)
Paris, May 2005 Full text [...] CHAPTER 1: AIM AND SCOPE OF THIS FRAMEWORK The development and application of biotechnology has the potential for far-reaching economic, social and environmental...
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Some Buddhist soul-searching
The Dance of 17 Lives - Karmapa - Wrestling the Dragon - Re-Enchantment
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel about Trinidad by a writer with a famous elder brother: "Egbert Ramsaran kept cows." * Entries...
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Red on maps, grey in minds
Britannia's Empire - The Absent-Minded Imperialists
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Chequered past of a seductive vessel
The Mystery of the Portland Vase