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STAFFORDSHIRE Malcolm Newman aims to turn Stoke-on-Trent into a thriving intellectual city as part of his new job at Staffordshire University. "It's about getting bums on seats at the higher...
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New stressbusting rules target academic angst
Claire Sanders reports that universities top the stress league, but change is afoot The latest official figures have revealed higher than average levels of stress among university staff, prompting...
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Commission encourages research co-operation for electricity grids
Brussels, 6 April 2006 21% of Europe’s energy could be produced by renewable sources, but existing electricity grids are not keeping pace with changes within the energy industry. Future...
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State aid: Commission endorses €232.5 million of public funding for a new research platform for nanoelectronic technologies in Dresden
Brussels, 6th April 2006 The European Commission has endorsed, under the EC Treaty’s rules on state aid, €232.5 million of public funding for a research and development project...
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Commissioner Janez POTOCNIK: A vision for electricity networks of the future, 1st General Assembly of the Technology Platform for Electricity Networks of the Future
Brussels, 6 April 2006 1st General Assembly of the Technology Platform for Electricity Networks of the Future Brussels, 6 April 2006 Ladies and Gentlemen, It is my great pleasure to be here today to...
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Revised List of Non-COST Countries and International/European Bodies Participating in COST Actions (link)
Brussels, 06 Apr 2006 Full text of Document 219/1/06 Revision 01 Suite of documents 219/1/06 Delegations will find attached the list of non-COST countries and international/European bodies...
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Research budget agreed - FP7 up by 300 million, but is it enough?
Brussels, 06 Apr 2006 The EU budget for the term 2007 to 2013 was finally agreed in a lengthy evening session on 4 April. The total budget has gone up by 4 billion euro since the December proposals....
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Commissioners at odds with Austrian minister over need for cross-border coexistence rules
Brussels, 06 Apr 2006 Following statements and reports from lobbying groups on both sides of the genetically modified organism (GMO) coexistence debate, there was an opportunity for politicians to...
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Greenpeace points to contamination evidence as stakeholders give views on coexistence
Brussels, 06 Apr 2006 Greenpeace has published a report claiming that coexistence is leading to the contamination of conventional and organic crops by genetically modified (GM) crops. The report is...
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GoPubMed: A Smarter Google?
Brussels, 06 Apr 2006 GoPubMed is a new type of search engine, developed from research conducted within the BIOGRID project under the Fifth Framework Programme (FP5). GoPubMed can not only search and...
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Finnish research reveals how cells 'breathe'
Brussels, 06 Apr 2006 Finnish researchers have cracked one of the most enduring puzzles of biochemistry - how cells 'breathe', or more correctly, respire. The team from the University of Helsinki has...
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UN symposium on open source and open medicine
Brussels, 06 Apr 2006 A symposium to debate the implications of free or open-source software and medicine will be held at the UN in New York on 13 April, entitled 'Challenging intellectual property:...
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Le Conseil de la concurrence procède actuellement au recrutement de son chef économiste
Paris, 6 April 2006 CHEF ECONOMISTE DU CONSEIL DE LA CONCURRENCE Le Conseil de la concurrence est une autorité administrative indépendante chargée de veiller au...
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Police may seize donations to animal rights protesters Public donations to animal rights activists could be seized by police if they are found to be funding the criminal activity behind an extremist...
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