Brussels, 17 May 2006 OPINION of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social...
Brussels, 30 May 2006 Innovation has been the buzzword in European corridors for some time - innovation is, we are told, the way to pull up the EU economy by its bootstraps and secure our long-term...
Brussels, 30 May 2006 The European Commission will host a workshop on the development of infrastructures for repositories of scientific information, on the 8 and 9 June, in Brussels. The workshop...
'Law to be used' to stop Israeli university boycotts An international lobby group formed last year after lecturers voted to boycott Israeli universities has vowed to oppose any renewed plans "through...
Deadline: 31/07/2006
Brussels, 29 May 2006 The Council adopted a decision approving the signature of an agreement between the EU and the USA renewing the cooperation programme in the field of higher education and...
Brussels, 29 May 2006 The European Defence Agency now has accurate data available on what its 24 participating Member States (all EU Member States except Denmark) spend on Defence Research and...
Brussels, 29 May 2006 ALTER-Net, an EU-funded network of excellence (NoE), has established an inter-disciplinary research facility to investigate the complex relationship between ecosystems,...
Brussels, 29 May 2006 A new report by the British Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and the Dutch BirdLife International organisation reveals a severe decline in European bird...
Brussels, 29 May 2006 The European Association of Research Managers and Administrators (EARMA) will host a conference on international research collaboration, from 18 to 20 June in Paris, France. The...
Paris, 29 May 2006 On the evening of May, an Ariane 5 ECA launcher lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on its mission to place two telecommunications satellites into geostationary...
Lecturers back boycott of Israeli academics Britain's largest lecturers' union yesterday voted in favour of a boycott of Israeli lecturers and academic institutions who do not publicly dissociate...
Brussels, 26 May 2006 The European Commission has launched a consultation on the draft research agenda for the theme 'socio-economic sciences and the humanities' in the Seventh Framework Programme (...
Brussels, 26 May 2006 The Irish government has announced the creation of a two million euro research programme for the biotechnology industry. This BioIndustry-Led Research Programme aims to address...
Brussels, 26 May 2006 French researchers have discovered that RNA, cousin of the more familiar DNA, has a role in the transfer of genetic information, completely changing the way in which we think...