Brussels, 22 May 2002 Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and...
Brussels, 22 May 2002 A new grouping of research centres in the Basque country, Spain, has created what it claims to be the fifth largest private technological institution in Europe. The new...
Brussels, 22 May 2002 Le Conseil a adopté le règlement relatif à une entreprise commune GALILEO, système de navigation par satellite (doc. 7637/02). L'entreprise commune a pour objet d'assurer l'...
Brussels, 22 May 2002 The Slovenian government has opened up its national research programme to research partners from the EU with the publication of a call for tenders. The call follows a decision...
Brussels, 22 May 2002 The European Commission has published a call for proposals under the second phase of the Leonardo da Vinci Programme, which supports vocational training within the EU. This call...
Blue-chip talent to help poor schools Britain’s brightest graduates are to be invited to spend two years’ “national service” teaching in London’s roughest schools before heading off to lucrative jobs...
UUK supports rich-pay-more policy University chiefs have given their clearest indication yet that they favour higher tuition fees for students. Baroness Warwick, chief executive of Universities UK,...
Brussels, 21 May 2002 Commission Regulation (EC) No 831/2002 of 17 May 2002 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 on Community Statistics, concerning access to confidential data for...
Brussels, 21 May 2002 'The Genius of Genetics, a celebration of Gregor Mendel through science and art' honours the life and work of an Augustinian friar whose experiments with peas in the 1860s...
Brussels, 21 May 2002 A new online discussion forum has been launched to boost networking between research centres, scientific organisations and small businesses in preparation for the Sixth...
Paris, 21 May 2002 ESA PR 34-2002. The European Space Agency (ESA) today launched a second and expanded round of funding for innovative R&D initiatives in satellite communications (satcom)...
Paris, 21 May 2002 For centuries, we have worshipped it and wondered at it, but it's only now that we are getting a really good look at it. Although you can't gaze at the Sun with the naked eye,...
Brussels, 21 May 2002 The structure proposed for the next Framework programme of European research (FP6), incorporating the European research area (ERA), will benefit European research but the most...
75% of Earth's surface damaged by 2030 More than 70 per cent of the Earth's land surface could be affected by the impacts of roads, mining, cities and other infrastructure developments in the next 30...
Science graduates 'too poor to carry on research' Thirty leading British scientists, including four Nobel laureates, are calling on the government to halt the "brain drain" of bright young science...