Brussels, 04 March 2002 Internal Market Commissioner Frits Bolkestein has declared the results of the Internal Market Council, at which an agreement on a Community patent was postponed until the next...
Historian Roy Porter dies aged 55 Medical historian Roy Porter has died, aged 55. Professor Porter died in hospital after being found near his home in St Leonard’s, near Hastings. The cause of his...
Merger plan to create giant British university Plans to create Britain's biggest university were announced yesterday with the publication of proposals to merge Manchester University and University of...
Brussels, 1 March 2002 Monitoring GHB and ketamine in 2001 ­ Europol-EMCDDA progress report. Note from Europol/EMCDDA to Horizontal Working Party on Drugs. Brussels, February 2002 (document...
Brussels, 1 March 2002 Rules for participation - 6th RTD framework programme. Rapporteur: Mr Malosse (Employers - F) - Reference: COM(2001) 822 final - 2001/0202 COD - CES 185/2002 Contact: Ms Birgit...
Brussels, 01 March 2002 FINAL A5-0035/2002 20 February 2002 REPORT on the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on strengthening cooperation with third...
Paris, 01 March 2002 Astronomers from ESA's Member States are preparing to take part in a French-led mission to be the first to search for rocky planets around other stars. The mission, COROT, is an...
Paris, 01 March 2002 The eagerly awaited launch of ESA’s Envisat environmental monitoring satellite took place in Kourou, French Guiana, today at 22:07:59 hrs Kourou time (02:07:59 hrs CET). Envisat’...
Brussels, 01 March 2002 A survey published by the European Commission has found that academia favours the protection of scientific results when they are first published, before a patent has been...
Brussels, 01 March 2002 Germany will provide 450 million euro for the development phase of Galileo, Europe's navigation satellite, announced Kurt Bodewig, Germany's Federal Minister for transport,...
Brussels, 01 March 2002 As part of a move to increase its cooperation with international scientific communities, China is considering opening up two of its national research programmes to the...
Brussels, 01 March 2002 A new scientific information service (SIS) on advanced alternative methods in biomedical sciences has been made available on the Internet by the European Commission's Joint...
Brussels, 01 March 2002 The third annual conference on 'best practices of science and technology' will be held in Prague, Czech Republic on 29 to 31 May. The event will look at technology transfer...
Brussels, 01 March 2002 Concentrating a broad array of instruments on a single platform and integrating continuous streams of data in real time, ENVISAT opens exciting opportunities for new products...
Teachers offered excellence fellowships More than 100 school and college teachers will be going back to university as part of a scheme aimed at widening participation in higher education. Some 30...