Brussels, Nov 2002 The European Commission has awarded funding of 3.47 million euro to an international consortium that aims to produce the most advanced and commercially attractive human language...
Brussels, Nov 2002 With the support of the Research DG of the European Commission, Technology Initiatives Ltd, as the co-ordinator of CO2NET, is organising a seminar entitled 'FP6: opportunities for...
Brussels, Nov 2002 The European University Association (EUA) is holding a conference on research in the social sciences, economics and humanities in Brussels on 3 and 4 December. The EUA represents...
Brussels, Nov 2002 Enterprise Ireland is organising a free information day on the Sixth EU Framework Programme for Research on 16 December in Malahide, County Dublin, Ireland. The Commission is...
Brussels, Nov 2002 As a follow up to the 18 October signing by candidate countries of the Association agreement for FP6, we take a closer look at the state of research in Bulgaria. Bulgaria is a...
Greenfield calls for eradication of institutional sexism Susan Greenfield, director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain and pharmacology professor at Oxford, today told ministers how more women...
Straw's son leads Oxford fees revolt Oxford University students are set to pass a motion of no confidence in their chancellor, Lord Jenkins, over his support for top-up fees. The move follows reports...
Brussels, 26 Nov 2002 Directors from European higher education institutions are meeting in Denmark on 25 and 26 November discuss the role played by universities in making Europe the world's most...
Brussels, 26 Nov 2002 Full text of Document 1/02 22 November 2002 NOTE Subject: Creation of a Fifth COST Fund The JAF Group, in its meeting of 19 November 2002, decided to propose to the CSO the...
Brussels, 26 Nov 2002 Lively discussion on the state of innovation and technology transfer in Europe characterised the seventh annual meeting of the Innovation Relay Centre (IRC) network in Nuremberg...
Brussels, 26 Nov 2002 Nigel Griffiths, the UK's Minister for Small Business, has said that incubation services are 'too often associated with high-tech companies', and should provide more support to...
Copenhagen, 26 Nov 2002 The EU Member States will listen more to each other in the future when national policies for R&D are being put in place. This is a way of remedying for the...
Brussels, 26 Nov 2002 Full text of Document 0/02 22 November 2002 MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING Subject: Memorandum of Understanding for the implementation of a European Concerted Research Action...
Paris, 26 Nov 2002 Internet traffic jams may become history if ESA succeeds in developing new technology to see nearby Earth-sized planets. Why? In looking for new ways to detect planets ESA is...
Brussels, 26 Nov 2002 The seventh annual meeting of the Innovation Relay Centre (IRC) network in Nuremburg from 20 to 22 November featured discussions on how IRCs should be financed, and in...