Venus Express team in launch countdown
Paris, 07 Nov 2005 At 07:00 CET Monday, the Venus Express mission clock began ticking down to Wednesday's launch. The excitement at ESOC and particularly in the Main Control Room is palpable as...
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Technical challenges push the launch of the ATV back to 2007
Paris, 07 Nov 2005 Today, about 98 percent of the hardware for Jules Verne, Europe's first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) spaceship, considered to be the most complex space vehicle ever developed...
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Report on Winning the Battle Against Global Climate Change (link)
Brussels, 07 Nov 2005 FINAL A6-0312/2005 20.10.2005 REPORT on Winning the Battle Against Global Climate Change Full text [...] EXPLANATORY STATEMENT Committee on the Environment, Public Health and...
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Universities fear research and lectures may be illegal Academics and university librarians could fall foul of the Government's new terror legislation unless they curb debate in tutorials and restrict...
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Discussion paper on strengthening EU evidence base to bring greater coherence to research data on illegal drugs, prepared for Council working party meeting on 7 November (link)
Brussels, 4 November 2005 Full text of Document 13963/05 Suite of documents 13963/05 3 November 2005 NOTE From: Presidency To: Horizontal Working Party on Drugs Subject: Strengthening the EU evidence...
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EU-Mexico agreement on scientific and technological cooperation (OJ link)
Brussels, 4 November 2005 Council Decision of 13 June 2005 on the conclusion of the Agreement for Scientific and Technological Cooperation between the European Community and the United Mexican States...
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Presidency's progress report on proposal for Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme 2007-13 - Competitiveness Council, 28-29 November (link)
Brussels, 4 November 2005 Full text of Document 13814/05 Suite of documents 13814/05 October 2005 NOTE from: the Presidency to: Coreper/Council Cion.prop. 8081/05 COMPET 67 RECH 79 ENER 55 ENV 164...
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163rd Meeting of COST Committee of Senior Officials on 23/24 November 2005, Agenda Item 17 - Reform of COST: Suggestions for a Constitutional Overhaul Following the Recent Mid-Term Review (link)
Brussels, 04 Nov 2005 Full text of Document 308/1/05 Revision 01 Suite of documents 308/1/05 Delegations will find attached a document from the United Kingdom delegation with a view to Agenda Item 17...
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Commission launches air pollution monitoring station on the high seas
Brussels, 04 Nov 2005 The European Commission has teamed up with an Italian shipping company to launch an innovative air pollution monitoring station on the high seas, in order to better understand...
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New scientific approach for risk assessment of genotoxic and carcinogenic substances in food
Brussels, 04 Nov 2005 In an opinion published on 3 November, the Scientific Committee of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) proposes a harmonised and transparent scientific approach from...
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Towards a European strategy for particle physics
Brussels, 04 Nov 2005 Concerned that the long timescale of particle physics experiments and the complexity of associated research programmes are delaying the advancement of particle physics, the...
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Commission to invest 151 million euro in mobile and wireless systems research
Brussels, 04 Nov 2005 The Commission has provided details of the retained project proposals following the fourth Information Society Technologies (IST) call of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6),...
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Lecture on Climate change by Guy Brasseur, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, discussion moderated by Peter Sterm, Senior Editor of Science Magazine
Brussels, 04 Nov 2005 A lecture on 'Climate in the 21st century: how severely will it change?' will take place in Brussels, Belgium, on 23 November. Organised by the European Parliament's Scientific...
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Psychiatrist faces plagiarism charge Britain's most ubiquitous psychiatrist was yesterday at the centre of a plagiarism row after it emerged that substantial portions of an article he had written for...
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