Brussels, 19 Jul 2005 Organisations from four EU countries have come together to form the Knowledge Exchange Network - a means to promote the use of information and communications technology (ICT)...
Brussels, 19 Jul 2005 A research team at the Institute of Vegetal Biology and Photosynthesis of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in La Cartuja, Seville, has developed a system allowing it...
Brussels, 19 Jul 2005 A Training course on administrative and contractual aspects of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) for Research and Technological Development will take place in Rome, Italy,...
Brussels, 19 Jul 2005 The European Commission has published a call for proposals in the area of 'Global change and ecosystems' under the Sixth Framework Programme's 'Sustainable development, global...
Minister urges action on campus extremism University bosses were told last night that they will be expected to play their part in rooting out extremism in Britain by tackling the influence of...
US to clamp down on foreign researchers The Pentagon has alarmed some US scientists by proposing new restrictions on access to sensitive technology by foreign researchers. The large number of foreign...
Brussels, 18 July 2005 The European Commission has adopted a second report (COM(2005)312) to the Council and European Parliament covering developments and implications of patent law in the field of...
Brussels, 18 July 2005 Today the European Commission is announcing the names of the 22 eminent men and women who will be the founding members of the Scientific Council of the European Research...
Brussels, 18 Jul 2005 The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has today launched an open consultation on its guidance document for the risk assessment of Genetically Modified Microorganisms (GMMs)...
Brussels, 15 July 2005 Opinion of the GMO Panel on an application for the placing on the market of insect-protected glyphosate-tolerant genetically modified maize MON863 x MON810 x NK603, for food...
Brussels, 15 July 2005 The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has today opened a public consultation on the Post Market Environmental Monitoring (PMEM) of Genetically Modified (GM) Plants. In a...
Brussels, 18 Jul 2005 Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding has used a speech to the European Institute in Washington to call for closer cooperation between the EU and US to...
Brussels, 18 Jul 2005 An expert panel has recommended that the European Commission release the foreseen 80 million euro to COST (European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research...
Brussels, 18 Jul 2005 One might think that the complex microchips that govern modern computers behave in a precise, predetermined way. According to he ALCHEMY research group at the French National...
Brussels, 18 Jul 2005 Ten days after part of the NASA Deep Impact spacecraft plunged into Comet Tempel 1 with the aim of creating a crater and exposing untouched material from beneath the surface,...