Brussels, 31 January 2006 General Affairs - provisional version 05th Council Meeting - General Affairs and External Relations Brussels, 30 January 2006 The Council adopted, accepting all amendments...
Brussels, 31 Jan 2006 A consortium of researchers from Switzerland, the US and Russia has succeeded in proving the existence of two new artificial elements at the famous Russian Nuclear Research...
Brussels, 31 Jan 2006 An international team led by scientists at the University of York has launched an EU funded project aimed at making forms of bone from blood products. The team comprises...
Brussels, 31 Jan 2006 The European Commission's Research DG has published a call for tenders for the provision of a European textbook on ethics in research. The textbook should: - identify major...
Brussels, 31 Jan 2006 The governing body of the proposed European Research Council (ERC), the Scientific Council, met on 24 and 25 January in order to discuss its scientific strategy and operating...
Greenfield to be made Heriot-Watt chancellor Lady Greenfield, the first woman to become director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, is to be installed as the new chancellor of Heriot-Watt...
Brussels, 30 Jan 2006 Seeing an opportunity to boost research funding without asking more of either governments or industry, the European Commission has funded a study on the potential role of...
Brussels, 30 Jan 2006 The European Commission is organising a conference on the role of foundations and private philanthropy in the field of research, to take place on and 28 March in Brussels,...
Brussels, 30 Jan 2006 An experiment to assess the potential impact of climate change on the concentration of toxic algae in freshwater systems has been launched in the UK as part of a 20 million euro...
Students forced to sign 'I'll try harder' contracts Oxford is to become the first university in Britain to protect itself from litigious students by introducing legally-binding contracts requiring...
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Brussels, Jan 2006 Academia Europaea will run an international symposium on quality assessment in institutions of higher education in Pavia, Italy, from 23 to 25 March. The conference will deliver an...
Brussels, Jan 2006 During the last four years the European Commission has successfully supported the creation of an EU-wide network of national, European and international players engaged in...
Brussels, Jan 2006 At a conference in Brussels last week, Jan Bosch, a board member of the Networked European Software and Services Initiative (NESSI) Technology Platform, which proposes to aid...