Brussels, 11 December 2002 Ten years of significant investment by the European Union in schemes to promote language learning and linguistic diversity culminated in the highly successful European Year...
Brussels, 11 Dec 2002 An initiative co-funded by the European Commission under the innovation-SMEs sub-section of the Fifth Framework Programme has led to the submission of 50 Individual Marie Curie...
Paris, 11 Dec 2002 Integral, the European Space Agency's gamma-ray satellite, has taken its first images and collected its first scientific data. These 'first-light' images confirm that Integral is...
Brussels, 11 Dec 2002 The UK Trade and Industry Secretary, Patricia Hewitt, unveiled new plans for the Department of Trade and Industry's record science budget over the next three years on 9 December...
Brussels, 11 Dec 2002 Full text of Document 14089/02 9 December 2002 LEGISLATIVE ACTS AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS Subject: Common position adopted by the Council with a view to the adoption of a Decision...
Clarke says graduates will pick up their own bill Education secretary Charles Clarke today confirmed that graduates would pick up the bill for their higher education. Speaking on Radio 4’s Today...
British academic boycott of Israel gathers pace British academics have delivered a series of snubs to their Israeli counterparts since the idea of a boycott first gained ground in the spring. Colin...
Brussels, 10 Dec 2002 The Commission has published its 2002 European innovation scoreboard, which reveals that as a whole, the EU continues to lag behind the US and Japan in most of the key...
Brussels, 10 Dec 2002 The 'Austrian Science Society' (ÖWIG), which aims to inform the public about the importance of science, was founded at the Technical University of Vienna on 2 December. The...
Brussels, 10 Dec 2002 The Polish network 'Energie-Cités', in collaboration with the city of Cracow, the region of Malopolska and the European Commission, is hosting its eighth annual conference in...
Brussels, 10 Dec 2002 Europe's transport ministers asked the Commission to continue negotiations with the USA and Russia and to draw up guidelines for negotiations with China on the Galileo programme...
Brussels, 10 Dec 2002 The Council took note of a statement by the Belgian delegation on genetically modified seeds in non-transgenic seed as concerns in particular the setting of thresholds for the...
Copenhagen, 10 Dec 2002 1. Status on ratifications 2. Status on the regulation on transboundary movements of GMOs and the regulation on traceability and labelling of GMOs - Outcome of the Environment...
Brussels, 10 Dec 2002 Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin has said that the under investment in Europe's private sector research and development (R&D) is the fault of policy makers, and...
Paris, 10 Dec 2002 Access to innovative solutions and increased competitiveness thanks to space technology - this is the theme of a workshop to be held at ESA/ESRIN in Frascati on 16 December (see...