Brussels, 12 Feb 2004 A conference on 'borderless university cooperation for regional development' will take place in Umeå, Sweden, on 18 and 19 March. The event will be a meeting place for everyone...
Brussels, 12 Feb 2004 A workshop on the European Commission's new model contract for Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) projects and its implications for consortium agreements will take place on 17...
Brussels, 12 Feb 2004 Full text of Document 556/04 1. GALILEO ­ Negotiations with the United States of America with a view to an agreement on the promotion, prevision and use of Galileo and...
Brussels, 12 Feb 2004 An independent panel of five high level experts has begun the five year evaluation of the Information Society Technologies (IST) priority of the European research framework...
Paris, 12 Feb 2004 ESA's new Weather Today website allows you to access data from space relied upon by weather forecasters across Europe. Perched in geostationary orbit 36,000 km above Africa's Gulf...
Paris, 12 Feb 2004 A pioneering demonstration of communications between the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter and NASA's Mars exploration rover, Spirit, has succeeded. On 6 February, while...
Bruxelles, le 12 f évrier 2004 Mesdames et Messieurs, En premier lieu, je voudrais remercier le Réseau d'Excellence Ga²Len de m'avoir invité et d'avoir organisé cette journée de rencontre, ici, à ...
UK outpaces US in college spin-offs British universities are producing almost three times as many spin-off businesses per pound of research as their US counterparts, according to government figures...
A-level bands are failing to distinguish between the brightest university applicants, according to a report out next week that may lead to the addition of two extra grades at the pinnacle of a...
Hardly has the furore died down after his report on the death of David Kelly, than Lord Hutton is at the centre of a new row in his home province. Sinn Fein has attacked Ulster University over plans...
Pressure from Joanna Bennett of the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health will prompt ministers to act this week against racism in Britain's mental health services. Dr Bennett, formerly a senior...
* John Coyne , pro vice-chancellor of De Montfort University, is to become vice-chancellor of the University of Derby. * The University of Oxford has appointed: Peter Ratcliffe , former professor of...
As the nation gears up for Valentine's day, academics warned this week that the pain of heartbreak is not a figment of the imagination. At a debate on Wednesday night at London's adults-only science...
The way in which the research pot is shared between universities will be fundamentally changed from 2009, allowing the best work to be identified wherever it is found. The next research assessment...
Any amendments to the higher education bill will have to pass through the Commons standing committee within a month, it emerged this week, writes Alison Goddard. The Liberal Democrats have tabled...