European Node officially handed to NASA
Paris, 26 Jun 2003 Six years of hard work came to fruition when ESA formally transferred ownership of Node 2 to NASA on 18 June 2003. This took place in the Space Station Processing Facility of the...
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Conference on nanotechnology and smart materials for medical devices
Brussels, 26 Jun 2003 Nanoforum is organising a conference on 'nanotechnology and smart materials for medical devices', to take place on 1 and 2 December in Edinburgh, Scotland. The conference will...
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Quantitative microbiology reference materials for water and food - conference
Brussels, 26 Jun 2003 A European conference on quantitative microbiology reference materials for water and food will take pace on 20 and 21 October in Lille, France. The two day conference will...
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Ombudsman's draft recommendation on Commission's handling of R&D award
Strasbourg, 26 June 2003 Draft recommendation to the European Commission in complaint 1878/2002/GG. Strasbourg, 18 June 2003 The complainant, a small company from the UK, was the co-ordinator of a...
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Leaders strengthen scientific and economic links during EU-US summit
Brussels, 26 Jun 2003 The United States and European Union made firm commitments to increase cooperation in key economic and scientific areas during the EU-US summit in Washington on 25 June. Leading...
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Road transport research advisory council starts work
Brussels, 26 Jun 2003 The work of the new European road transport research advisory council (ERTRAC) got underway on 25 June when all members came together for the first time in Brussels. EU Research...
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Comments invited on draft model contracts
Brussels, 26 Jun 2003 The European Commission is inviting feedback on the initial work of the model contract working group. The final model contract document will be influenced by responses to these...
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Visit the new ESA Space Science site
Paris, 26 Jun 2003 Share the excitement of our European science adventure in space through the new ESA Space Science site for the general public and media launched today at http://www.esa.int/science...
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EU Greek Presidency provides food for thought on ERA
Brussels, 26 Jun 2003 As the Greek EU Presidency comes to a close, the General Secretariat for Research and Technology has published a report outlining a series of guidelines to further the...
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Strasbourg
Stanislas Gosse, an academic at a Strasbourg engineering school who admitted using a secret passage to steal 1,100 books, including a 15th-century incunabulum from the Mont-Sainte-Odile monastery at...
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Brussels
The European Commission has launched an online glossary explaining jargon used in documents for Sixth Framework Programme grant applications. fp6.cordis.lu/fp6/glossary.cfm A European Brain Council...
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Minsk
Graduates will serve in the army for one year, compared with 18 months for young men without higher education, under Belarus' new law on military service.
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Nouakchott
Several students suspected of complicity in an attempted military coup in Mauritania have been arrested and face trial.
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Kuala Lumpur
Deputy prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has denied that a new university admissions system designed to ensure a fairer representation of Malaysia's Chinese and Indian population has had the...
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Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan president Saparmurat Niazov is trying to prevent students from travelling abroad for their education, fearing that foreign universities could become a hotbed of Turkmen dissent. A new...