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Gates's $200m gift to fight killer diseases The world's richest man, Bill Gates, has set the medical community a $200 million (£122 million) challenge to narrow the health gap between the West and...
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Cancer research in FP6 - information afternoon
Brussels, Jan 2003 A seminar focusing on cancer research in the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) is being held in Brussels on 7 February. The seminar will give an overview of the opportunities in...
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MoU for the implmentation of the COST project "Biotribology: Materials for Improved Wear Resistance of Total Artificial Joints" (link)
Brussels, Jan 2003 Full text of Document 206/03 Subject: Memorandum of Understanding for the implementation of a European Concerted Research Action designated as COST Action 533 "Biotribology:...
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Conference to discuss the prospect of a European Research Council
Brussels, Jan 2003 UNESCO is to host a meeting, in Paris on 19 February, on the prospect of establishing a European Research Council (ERC) to support high quality basic research in Europe. The...
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Ministers propose themes for next research policy benchmarking
Brussels, Jan 2003 European ministers have indicated that human resources and private sector research investment will be key themes for the next two year research policy benchmarking cycle. Their...
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Research and information technology forum
Brussels, Jan 2003 The Norwegian mission to Europe is organising a research and information technology (IT) forum in Brussels on 31 January. The aim of the event is to provide different perspectives...
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ESA on the trail of the earliest stars
Paris, Jan 2003 Somewhere in the distant, old Universe, a population of stars hide undetected. They were the first to form after the birth of the Universe and are supposed to be far bigger in mass...
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Update: 12:40
Warwick researchers count cost of happiness Andrew Oswald and Andrew Clark of the Warwick University's school of economics have worked out the cost of happiness to the nearest pound. They carried out...
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Today's news
Maximum student grant may be raised The government may raise the maximum £1,000 grant for students from 2006, Charles Clarke, the education secretary, said last night, in the face of complaints that...
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European across grids conference
Brussels, 24 Jan 2003 The first European across grids conference will take place in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on 13 and 14 February. The objective of the event is to foster collaboration between...
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Parliament committee backs Commission proposal on EU-developing countries clinical trials
Brussels, 24 Jan 2003 The new European Commission proposal, aimed at finding affordable drugs for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in developing countries, was strongly backed on 22 January by the...
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Food and vegetable processing technology transfer event
Brussels, 24 Jan 2003 A food and vegetable processing technology transfer afternoon will take place on 28 April in Murcia, Spain. The purpose of the technology transfer event is to create a meeting...
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Busquin offers help to industry in promoting role of women in research
Brussels, 24 Jan 2003 EU Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin called on businesses to take up the issue of promoting women in industrial research with a view to putting it on the agenda of the...
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Sustainable agriculture for developing countries: the options offered by life sciences and biotechnology
Brussels, 24 January 2003 The European Group on Life Sciences, including eminent scientists advising European Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin, is inviting stakeholders to participate in a...
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Planned new CEN/ISSS Workshop on IT-Profiles and Curricula Postponed to April
Brussels, 24 Jan 2003 In late December CEN/ISSS advertised that the Kick-Off meeting of the above Workshop would take place in February 2003, in Brussels. This Workshop is to validate the "IT...