Brussels, 10 Dec 2002 A Commission funded collaboration project between the World Health Organisation (WHO), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) aims...
70 Italian rectors resign over budget cuts Italy's 70 state universities rectors have carried out their threat to resign en masse over real-terms cuts in higher education in the 2003 budget. But...
Labour to give academics £1.5bn pay boost Academics are set for a three-year catch-up pay deal as a result of a £1.5 billion funding boost for universities to be unveiled next month. The cash...
University funding inequality rules A study of higher education finance throughout the UK conducted by David Stiles of Cardiff Business School says that the funding system continues to discriminate...
Brussels, 09 Dec 2002 The work programmes for the Sixth Framework Programme's specific programmes 'Focusing and integrating community research' and 'Structuring the European Research Area' were...
Innovation Lecture 2002 Dear Mr Wijn, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is an honour and a pleasure to address you here, in the birthplace of Dutch democracy. It is also a difficult task to intervene after...
Brussels, 09 Dec 2002 'Innovation is only achieved when the innovation hits the market.' These were the words of Thomas Gering, responsible for setting up spin-offs developed in the Fraunhofer...
Paris, 09 Dec 2002 Sitting in a doctor's waiting room is not most people's idea of fun, so a recent conference in Bruges, Belgium, on Delivering eHealth across Europe, has good news for Europeans -...
Paris, 09 Dec 2002 Arianespace has announced that the first launch of the new Ariane 10 tonne will take place on December 11. This date was confirmed following replacement of two external chill-down...
Paris, 6 December 2002 On Thursday 5 December 2002 an ESA-coordinated demonstration in medical telediagnostics was carried out on board the French hospital ship Sirocco. In a project initiated by ESA...
Brussels, 09 Dec 2002 Commission President Romano Prodi has referred to the relationship between science and society as an issue which illustrates the EU's political and moral dimension. Speaking at...
Brussels, 09 Dec 2002 Astronomers in Europe have agreed to join forces in a single project to design and build the largest optical telescope in the world. The telescope's main mirror will be up to...
Brussels, 09 Dec 2002 A European Science Foundation conference assessing the impact of genetically modified plants will investigate introgression from crops to wild plants and the consequences...
Brussels, 09 Dec 2002 The third international conference on systems biology will take place from 13 to 15 December in Stockholm, Sweden. It will bring together experimentalists and theorists from...
Paris, 6 December 2002 Space agency leaders from the United States, Europe, Canada, Japan and Russia met today in Tokyo, Japan, to review and further promote International Space Station (ISS)...