Brussels, 25 Apr 2006 An EU consortium has developed a new vehicle suitable for the clean, green urban jungle, funded under the European Commission's Fifth Framework Programme (FP5). The CLEVER (...
Brussels, 25 Apr 2006 Until now, information communications technology (ICT) driven safety systems for car drivers and other road users have been predominantly autonomous or stand-alone devices....
Brussels, 25 Apr 2006 'Frankly, some researchers didn't think what we were doing was possible,' says Dr Keith Firman, on the completion of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) Mol-Switch project that...
Brussels, 25 Apr 2006 A research institute in Leipzig, Germany, has become the first to create an artificial cloud in a laboratory. The cloud was created at the Institute for Tropospheric Research (...
Brussels, 25 Apr 2006 A conference entitled 'A Researchers' labour market: Europe a pole of attraction?', organised by the Austrian Presidency of the EU, will take place in Vienna on 1 and 2 June....
Brussels, 25 Apr 2006 The 13th International Congress on Plasma Physics will take place in Kiev, Ukraine, from 22 to 26 May. One of the main goals of the conference is to facilitate the cross-...
Brussels, 25 Apr 2006 The Agriculture Committee adopted on 25 April an own-initiative report on natural disasters (forest fires, drought and floods) that affect agricultural and forestry holdings and...
Students urged to direct strike anger at VCs The Association of University Teachers today urged student unions opposed to the marking ban by striking lecturers to take their anger out on vice-...
Brussels, 24 Apr 2006 PROVISIONAL 2005/02(COD) 6.4.2006 DRAFT OPINION of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety on the...
Brussels, 24 Apr 2006 Swiss scientists are tantalisingly close to releasing the grip that cocaine has over addicts the world over. Their findings, appearing in a leading scientific journal this month...
Geneva, 24 Apr 2006 WORKING GROUP ON REFORM OF THE PATENT COOPERATION TREATY (PCT) Eighth Session Geneva, May 8 to 12, 2006 DECLARATION OF THE SOURCE OF GENETIC RESOURCES AND TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE IN...
Brussels, 24 Apr 2006 An agreement on how the 54 billion euro budget for the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) will be allocated is 'within reach', according to Austrian Minister for Education,...
Brussels, 24 Apr 2006 PROVISIONAL 2006/2005(INI) 3.4.2006 DRAFT OPINION of the Committee on Culture and Education for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy on implementing the Community...
Brussels, 24 Apr 2006 AMENDMENTS 13-35 Draft report Jamila Madeira (PE 370.167v01-00) Proposal for a Council decision concerning the specific programme `People' implementing the 7th Framework...
Brussels, 24 Apr 2006 Oxford Journals will hold a conference in London on 5 June to present the results of its open access experiments. The event will present information on the uptake of the open...