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Sussex v-c reprimanded in Commons report A highly critical Commons committee report into plans to axe chemistry at the Sussex University will accuse the vice-chancellor, Alasdair Smith, of...
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Roslin sued for £150,000 over dismissal A scientist is claiming £150,000 in compensation for unfair dismissal from the country's biggest research centre. Anne Knox, of Aberlady, East Lothian, was on...
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Commission mandated to support adoption of European Convention for protection of animals used for scientific purposes: Agriculture and Fisheries Council, 25 April
Brussels, 25 April 2006 24th Council Meeting - Agriculture and Fisheries. Luxembourg, 25 April 2006 Provisional version The Council adopted a decision mandating the Commission to support, on behalf...
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Commissioner Janez POTOCNIK: Back to basics – putting excellence at
London, 25 April 2006 Dear Professor, Ladies and Gentlemen, When Professor Worthington invited me to visit LSE, she reminded me of a speech I made some months ago in which I called for social...
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Commissioner Janez POTOCNIK: Europe’s Knowledge Economy: Making it Fit for the Future, Center for European Reform
London, 25 April 2006 Ladies and Gentlemen, I am happy to speak at this seminar of the Centre for European Reform about what we can do to make Europe a knowledge economy that is “fit for...
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Document on the Patent System and Genetic ߣߣÊÓƵ submitted by Japan for the 24-28 April Session of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic ߣߣÊÓƵ, Traditional Knowle
Geneva, 25 Apr 2006 Full text 1. By a note dated April 20, 2006, the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations Office and Other International Organizations in Geneva request that a documentbe...
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When three wheels are better than four, and more CLEVER
Brussels, 25 Apr 2006 An EU consortium has developed a new vehicle suitable for the clean, green urban jungle, funded under the European Commission's Fifth Framework Programme (FP5). The CLEVER (...
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What a smart car says to the road
Brussels, 25 Apr 2006 Until now, information communications technology (ICT) driven safety systems for car drivers and other road users have been predominantly autonomous or stand-alone devices....
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Nano 'switch' bridges biological and nano worlds
Brussels, 25 Apr 2006 'Frankly, some researchers didn't think what we were doing was possible,' says Dr Keith Firman, on the completion of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) Mol-Switch project that...
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Leipzig Cloudmakers Will Improve Forecasting of Weather and Climate
Brussels, 25 Apr 2006 A research institute in Leipzig, Germany, has become the first to create an artificial cloud in a laboratory. The cloud was created at the Institute for Tropospheric Research (...
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Presidency conference to address researchers' labour market
Brussels, 25 Apr 2006 A conference entitled 'A Researchers' labour market: Europe a pole of attraction?', organised by the Austrian Presidency of the EU, will take place in Vienna on 1 and 2 June....
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International Plasma Physics Congress in Kiev, Ukraine, 22-26 May
Brussels, 25 Apr 2006 The 13th International Congress on Plasma Physics will take place in Kiev, Ukraine, from 22 to 26 May. One of the main goals of the conference is to facilitate the cross-...
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Improved Community action needed against natural disasters (Own initiative)
Brussels, 25 Apr 2006 The Agriculture Committee adopted on 25 April an own-initiative report on natural disasters (forest fires, drought and floods) that affect agricultural and forestry holdings and...
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Students urged to direct strike anger at VCs The Association of University Teachers today urged student unions opposed to the marking ban by striking lecturers to take their anger out on vice-...
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Draft Opinion on the Proposed Regulation on advanced therapy medicinal products (link)
Brussels, 24 Apr 2006 PROVISIONAL 2005/02(COD) 6.4.2006 DRAFT OPINION of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety on the...