GALILEO project is off the ground
Brussels, 20 February 2004 The European Commission adopted a communication on progress on the GALILEO programme. Less than two years after the launch of the project in March 2002 and less than six...
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EURAB - European Research Advisory Board - Recommendations on European Technology Platforms - January 2004 (link)
Brussels, 20 Feb 2004 Full text DG Research http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/research/i ndex_en.html
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EURAB - European Research Advisory Board - Recommendations on the European Research Area (ERA) and the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) - January 2004 (link)
Brussels, 20 Feb 2004 Full text DG Research http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/research/i ndex_en.html
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Commission compensates small UK company after Ombudsman intervenes
Strasbourg, 20 February 2004 The European Ombudsman, P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, has welcomed the European Commission's decision to pay €21,000 compensation to a small UK company. This follows the...
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Developing an effective strategy for ongoing FP6 participation
Brussels, 20 Feb 2004 A workshop on developing an effective strategy for ongoing participation in the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) will take place in Cambridge, the UK, on 25 March. The event is...
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IST project set to build the Internet of 2025
Brussels, 20 Feb 2004 A new European Integrated Project, funded under the Priority 2, 'Information Society Technologies'(IST) of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), has recently been launched in...
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European astronomers witness destruction of a star by a black hole
Brussels, 20 Feb 2004 An international team of astronomers, led by the Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial physics (MPE), believes it is the first to see evidence of the destruction and partial...
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Europe set to launch first ever Comet-Lander
Brussels, 20 Feb 2004 Scientists from the European Space Agency (ESA) announced the launch date for the first space mission aimed at landing on the nucleus of a comet on 19 February The Rosetta...
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Ancient desert markings imaged from orbit
Paris, 20 Feb 2004 Visible from ESA's Proba spacecraft 600 kilometres away in space are the largest of the many Nasca Lines; ancient desert markings now at risk from human encroachment as well as...
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Leaders of France, Germany and the UK call for a more innovative Europe
Brussels, 20 Feb 2004 The leaders of the EU's three richest Member States met in Germany on 18 February, where Europe's competitiveness was high on the agenda. In a letter to the European Council and...
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Today's news
Wave of strikes to hit colleges this week University lecturers begin a week of industrial action today over pay. Members of the Association of University Teachers voted decisively to take strike...
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Unions cry foul over hike in v-cs' pay
Vice-chancellors have again accepted pay rises far higher than those offered to their staff, prompting accusations of double standards from academic unions. The average pay rise in 2002-03, the...
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No sex, please, we're too politically correct (and a little prudish)
Sex has been in decline for more than 20 years in the pages of academic journals. The fall has been matched by the steady rise of the word "gender", which now dominates social sciences, arts and...
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In the news: Sir Alan Langlands
Sweeteners that could be paid to graduate recruits from the public purse are to come under scrutiny in a review led by Sir Alan Langlands, principal and vice-chancellor of Dundee University. The...
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Appointments
The University of Leeds has appointed: Paul Garner , former professor of Spanish and Latin American studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London, Cowdray chair of Spanish; Garik Markarian to a...