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Parliament committee supports Commission's plans for future research policy
Brussels, 23 Feb 2005 The European Parliament's committee on industry, research and energy adopted a report on the future of EU research policy on 21 February, giving support to the broad ideas...
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EU network provides early warning in case of environmental risk to health
Brussels, 23 Feb 2005 The results of an EU funded project seeking ways to transmit environmental hazard warning to people at risk through various complimentary communication channels shows remarkable...
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Pharma and biotech markets growing twice as fast in new Member States, says report, but parallel imports still a problem
Brussels, 23 Feb 2005 The pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries in the 'new' EU countries are growing rapidly and present considerable potential, is the verdict of a new report. The report by...
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Education may not be enough to boost public support for science, analysis finds
Brussels, 23 Feb 2005 A new analysis of research into public perception of science in 40 different countries appears to have proven a widely-held assumption - that the more a person knows about...
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Brain drain of UK biochemists is slowing, finds survey
Brussels, 23 Feb 2005 The number of UK biochemistry PhD graduates that choose to work abroad or leave science altogether fell sharply in 2003, according to the latest edition of the UK Biochemical...
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Finland to raise R&D spending by one per cent in 2005
Brussels, 23 Feb 2005 The Finnish government has announced that it will raise public expenditure on research and development (R&D) by 56 million euro to a total of nearly 1.6 billion euro for...
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Rosetta swings by Earth - ESA's comet chaser to fly by its home planet
Paris, 23 Feb 2005 ESA's comet-chaser Rosetta will make a fly-by of planet Earth on 4 March 2005, and sky watchers should be able to see it with telescopes or binoculars if the sky is clear! Read on...
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CORDIS gets even faster - a new higher-speed connection to the Internet backbone
Brussels, 23 Feb 2005 CORDIS, the Community Research and Development Information Service, has upgraded its connection to the Internet, opening a new high-bandwidth line direct to the backbone network...
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Oxford unveils radical plans to overhaul university governance Oxford University has published radical plans to overhaul its governance structure, creating a body that will bring the university's...
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Latest research news
End of Sars as a deadly threat The killer Sars virus has been contained so effectively that it can be considered eradicated outside laboratories, scientists said on monday. Severe acute respiratory...
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Draft Summary Conclusions of the 299th Meeting of the Scientific and Technical Research Committee (CREST) Held in Brussels on 20 January (link)
Brussels, 22 Feb 2005 Full text of Document 1202/05 Suite of documents 1202/05 The meeting was chaired by Mr MITSOS (European Commission, Director General) and Mr ESCRITT (European Commission,...
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Women scientists are more ambitious than men, but lack support, finds study
Brussels, 22 Feb 2005 A study carried out in the UK suggests that women scientists are more ambitious than their male counterparts, but feel they lack the support and encouragement needed to progress...
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UN resolution against human cloning lacks political weight, say opponents
Brussels, 22 Feb 2005 A committee of the United Nations has, in a split vote, approved an international declaration calling on countries to ban all forms of human cloning - both reproductive and...
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State aid - Germany: State aid in favour of Schneider Technologies AG - comment within one month (link)
Brussels, 22 Feb 2005 Full text of this notice State aid in favour of Schneider Technologies AG State aid No C 26/2004 (ex NN 38/2004) Invitation to submit comments pursuant to Article 88(2) of the...