Business clusters boost regional innovation
Brussels, 20 Mar 2006 http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/energy/nn/nn_rt/nn_rt_bm/article_4012_en.htm On the final day of the European Business Summit (EBS), the Commission's DG for Enterprise and...
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Butterfly decline demonstrates parallel decline in natural habitat and biodiversity
Brussels, 20 Mar 2006 Butterfly populations are in sharp decline throughout Europe. The authors of a new study, published in the Journal of Insect Conservation, believe the reason for this loss to be...
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Satellite flood mapping service strengthens eastern France civil protection
Paris, 20 Mar 2006 A satellite-based rapid mapping service developed to support civil defence activities in eastern France is ready and on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The pioneering...
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Satellite multicasting improves educational information delivery
Paris, 20 Mar 2006 A project supported by the European Space Agency has combined satellite multicasting techniques and improved content management to enhance information delivery for education. The...
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Through a satellite darkly: night views of European seas improve ESA ocean heat map
Paris, 20 Mar 2006 The Mediterranean looks better in the dark - at least in the view of an ESA-led effort to use satellites to take the daily temperature of Europe's seas. A switch to data acquired...
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Commission Agenda Entry: Tuesday, 28 March: Encouraging more research into the prevention of blindness
Brussels, 20 Mar 2006 The News: With the projected increase in world population and an increase in life expectancy, the number of blind people in the world is likely to rise to more than 75 million...
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Commission Agenda Entry: Wed 5 and Thurs 6 April: Vienna conference on co-existence of GM crops with conventional and organic agriculture
Brussels, 20 Mar 2006 The news: In 2003, the Commission adopted a Recommendation to help all Member States develop national strategies and laws to ensure the effective co-existence of genetically...
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Dramatic Activity Detected on Saturn Moon, Presence of Water and Heat Source Suggest Environment Potentially Suitable for Living Organisms
Washington, 20 Mar 2006 Recent Cassini images of Enceladus at high phase show the fountain-like sources of the fine spray of material that towers above the south polar region of Enceladus. (CICLOPS)...
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Nanotechnology Customer Partnership Meeting at the USPTO - 28 March
Washington D.C., 20 Mar 2006 This Nanotechnology Customer Partnership initiative is designed and developed to be a forum to share ideas, experiences, and insights between individual users and the...
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Basic Technology Research Programme: 6th Call
Deadline: 04/04/2006
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Science and Society Fellowships
Deadline: 28/04/2006
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Rammell rejects 'pessimistic' participation figures A report saying the government has "no prospect whatever" of reaching its target of 50 per cent of young people entering higher education by 2010...
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Results of the Public Consultation on a Concept of a European Institute of Technology -- Annex to the Commission Communication on Developing a knowledge Flagship (link)
Brussels, 17 Mar 2006 Full text of Document 6844/06 Addendum 01 Suite of documents 6844/06 Subject: COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT Annex to the Communication from the Commission to the European...
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Commissioner Neelie Kroes: State aid reform - the case for research and innovation, European Business Summit
Brussels, 17 March 2006 Ladies and Gentlemen, I’m very pleased to be here today. You - the business leaders of Europe – know that research, development and innovation are crucial...
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Services directive 'disappointment' for EU growth
Brussels, 17 Mar 2006 EU Commissioner for Science and Research Janez Potocnik, together with former Finnish Prime Minister Esko Aho, have referred to the recent services directive as a '...