Almaty , Kazakhstan , May 2005 Civil society organizations, gathered at the Second Meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention in Almaty, today welcomed an amendment to the Convention giving the...
Scots must stage U-turn on top-up fees, says professor A leading academic who sat on a review group which recommended the introduction of top-up tuition fees in Wales last night called on the...
Brussels, May 2005 Representatives of 119 governments are expected to adopt binding rules on the documentation that has to accompany genetically modified agricultural commodities, such as wheat,...
Copenhagen May, 2005 Ladies and gentlemen, I welcome the opportunity to speak to you today on the subject of “knowledge for growth” and on the role played by EU research. I wish to thank EIRMA very...
Brussels, May 2005 Giles CHICHESTER (EPP-ED, UK), who chairs Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, has written to the President of Parliament, Josep BORRELL, expressing his...
Brussels, May 2005 Full text of Document 1942/05 1. Proposal for the 7th Framework Programme: continuation of the examination a) "Health" b) "Food" c) "Nanosciences" doc. 8087/05 RECH 80 ATO 45...
Brussels, May 2005 Full text of Document 9449/05 Suite of documents 9449/05 Subject: Opinion by the Economic Policy Committee on the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme 2007-2013, and...
Brussels, May 2005 Full text of Document 9440/05 Suite of documents 9440/05 Subject: Space policy ­ Preparation of the second "Space Council" of 7 June 2005 ­ Approval of the...
Brussels, May 2005 Europe's research ministers, as well as researchers themselves, have long bemoaned the lack of links and coordination between the EU's research framework programmes and Eureka, the...
Brussels, May 2005 In order to promote increased collaboration between nanoscience researchers in Europe, the EU is to part-finance the creation of a European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF...
Brussels, May 2005 The BioSec Integrated Project is organising its third workshop on the theme 'Setting the path for multimodal biometrics and biometric applications', to be held on 16 and 17 June in...
Paris, May 2005 Full text [...] CHAPTER 1: AIM AND SCOPE OF THIS FRAMEWORK The development and application of biotechnology has the potential for far-reaching economic, social and environmental...
The Dance of 17 Lives - Karmapa - Wrestling the Dragon - Re-Enchantment
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel about Trinidad by a writer with a famous elder brother: "Egbert Ramsaran kept cows." * Entries...
Britannia's Empire - The Absent-Minded Imperialists