Paris, 10 Jul 2006 MetOp-A, the first member of a new family of European satellites designed to monitor the Earth's atmosphere from low Earth orbit, is to be launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on 17...
Munich, 10 Jul 2006 In leaked documents the Commission criticises the European Patent Office (EPO) as a "business culture of its own" that considers EU interferences in patent law "as an attack on...
Brussels, 10 July 2006 Europe risks a “brain drain” to Asia and America unless it makes innovation a priority and invests more in education, research and business knowledge,...
Wired wigs help students cheat in exams More than 20 desperate students in Vietnam paid up to 50m dong (£1,700) to don elaborately wired wigs and shirts that allowed them to cheat in their college...
Brussels, 07 Jul 2006 Following quite a critical opinion on the proposed European Institute of Technology (EIT) in April 2005 by the European Research Advisory Board (EURAB), the Board appears to...
Brussels, 07 Jul 2006 Full text [...] Recommendations 1. During the last two decades, a new competitive international system of science and technology has emerged. To promote its goals, the EC needs...
Brussels, 07 Jul 2006 Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding has welcomed the launch of a European Technology Platform on smart systems integration, saying that European industry...
London, 07 Jul 2006 Full text [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The purpose of this document is to provide scientific guidance relating to the viral safety of biotechnological medicinal products used in...
Brussels, 07 Jul 2006 AMENDMENTS 25-60 Draft opinion Hiltrud Breyer (PE 374.450v01-00) Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on advanced therapy medicinal products...
Brussels, 07 Jul 2006 The 10th European conference on research and advanced technology for digital libraries will take place from 17 to 22 September in Alicante, Spain. The special topic of this year...
Brussels, 07 Jul 2006 Full text of Document 256/06 Suite of documents 256/06 Subject: COST Statement on the Financial Support for COST from the 7th RTD Framework Programme as approved by the COST...
Brussels, 07 Jul 2006 Full text of Document 11377/06 Suite of documents 11377/06 PROVISIONAL AGENDA for: 2148th MEETING OF THE PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE (Part 1) date: Tuesday 11 (10:45)...
Paris, 07 Jul 2006 Thanks to data from ESA's XMM-Newton satellite, a team of scientists taking a closer look at an object discovered over 25 years ago have found that it is like none other known in...
London, 7 July 2006 Review of Events Involving the Transport of Radioactive Materials in the UK, from 1958 to 2004, and their Radiological Consequences Full text (PDF, 166 KB, 46 pages) By J S Hughes...
Women denied top jobs by glass ceiling in universities Women are being denied access to the most senior university jobs despite a continuing increase in the numbers of female staff in higher...