28 Sep 2006 Nanosciences and nanotechnologies: an action plan for Europe 2005-2009 ( A6-0216/2006 ) Rapporteur: Miloslav Ransdorf (GUE/NGL, CZ) Report adopted by a show of hands, with one amendment...
Luxembourg/Genova, 28 September 2006 The European Investment Bank, the European Union financing institution, will participate in the Festival of Science that will take place 26 October – 7...
Brussels, 28 Sep 2006 'I like people with a free mind, it's true,' said European Commissioner for Science and Research Janez Potocnik in an interview with CORDIS News. He was referring to Bob Marley...
Brussels, 28 Sep 2006 A new scheme, run by the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), uses a global positioning system (GPS) to track migrating birds in order to...
Brussels, 28 Sep 2006 Surgeons from France have used the European Space Agency's (ESA's) experimental Zero-G aircraft to carry out the first ever surgical operation conducted without gravity. The...
Brussels, 28 Sep 2006 A new EUREKA project aims to bring a range of services to within touching distance. The SmartTouch project, which is led by the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), will...
Brussels, 28 Sep 2006 The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) has organised a policy conference to discuss 'How to integrate big amounts of wind energy into the European power infrastructure', to...
Washington D.C., 28 Sep 2006 The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) today released experimental estimates of the effect of intangible assets on the U.S. economy. Specifically, BEA found the nation's...
Washington, 28 Sep 2006 NASA Administrator Michael Griffin returned to the United States September 28 after a landmark visit to China â€" the first time a NASA administrator has visited that country...
Washington, 28 Sep 2006 NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity has arrived at the rim of a crater about five times wider than a previous stadium-sized crater it studied for six months. Initial images from the...
London, 28 September 2006 Programme Aim To bring together the funding providers and other regulators in the Higher Education sector to facilitate discussions on the opportunities available for making...
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City looks overseas for young recruits The City is increasingly looking overseas for young recruits because foreign graduates are more mature than their British counterparts, a report warned...
From: The Office of the President Subject: University Values As you will recall, we recently engaged a leading firm of management consultants, Quantum Leap plc, to assist in the preparation of a set...
The three submissions published this week by university groups on the future of research assessment and funding hold no great surprises, but they constitute an interesting case study on the way in...