Brussels, 10 July 2002 The document of the decision of the European Parliament and Council on the Sixth Framework programme is now available on CORDIS in its RTD2002 section. The decision, which was...
Brussels, 10 July 2002 The European Commission has published a call for tenders for a study on forest protection. The contracting party will be assigned the following tasks with regard to...
Brussels, 10 July 2002 At a conference in Brussels on 9 July, both the Commission and industry agreed on the need to reduce animal experimentation by introducing alternative testing methods, and both...
Brussels, 10 July 2002 While the relationship between science and industry is undergoing change, many countries still need to modernise it to adapt to changed circumstances. This is one of the...
MPs criticise quality of school science School science must be revamped to become more appealing, MPs said today. The Commons' select committee on science and technology criticised the teaching of...
Return to grants for poor students Students would be paid £40 a week to go to university under a reform package published today by the Commons select committee on education. The cost of the grants...
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Getting the right grade can be a lottery The grading of essays is a "lottery" according to new research from North London and Surrey universities. Researchers invited 100 history and psychology...
Brussels, 9 July 2002 Proposal for a Council Directive on the control of high activity sealed radioactive sources Full text Cover note. Brussels, 3 July 2002 (08.07) (document 10590/02 ATO 87)....
Brussels, 9 July 2002 "Reduction, Replacement and Refinement " the "Three Rs " - are the basic tenets of EU research and other policies concerning the use of animals in scientific e x perimentation...
Brussels, 09 July 2002 Further research into corporate social responsibility, which aims to achieve a balance between the interests of business and those of wider society, can help Europe to become...
Brussels, 09 July 2002 The European Parliament has published a working paper, written by the University of Oviedo foundation, Spain, comparing the Fifth and Sixth Framework programmes and raising...
Brussels, 09 July 2002 Full text In today's technical world, more and more decisions rely on scientific expertise. But scientists working at the borders of human knowledge cannot be categorical in...
Brussels, 09 July 2002 The annual EPIDOS conference will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark on 15 to 17 October, followed on 18 October by an 'epoline user day' event. EPIDOS will be opened by Crown...
Paris, 09 July 2002 The International Space Station has now been orbiting the Earth over 15 times a day for more than a thousand days, yet how many of us have actually seen it? ESA’s new site See the...