University staff involved in training postgraduate research students and postdoctoral researchers are worried that they will lose ring-fenced funding for their work. Concerns that research council...
Contract researchers fear that the research assessment exercise is hampering universities' efforts to switch staff from fixed-term contracts to permanent ones in line with European Union regulations...
Brussels, 12 January 2006 Commission Decision of 10 January 2006 concerning the provisional prohibition in Greece of the marketing of seeds of maize hybrids with the genetic modification MON 810...
Paris, 12 Jan 2006 The GIOVE-A satellite is in good health and started transmitting the first Galileo signals from medium Earth orbit on 12 January. GIOVE-A was placed in orbit (altitude 23,260 km)...
Brussels, 12 January 2006 Following exchanges that lasted for six months, negotiations on the Republic of Korea’s participation in Europe’s satellite radionavigation programme...
Brussels, 12 January 2006 The fifth edition of the European Innovation Scoreboard reveals that Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Germany and Denmark are the European innovation leaders. Most of the new...
Brussels, 12 Jan 2006 WORKING DOCUMENT on Energy efficiency or doing more with less - Green Paper Committee on Industry, Research and Energy Rapporteur: Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca 15.12.2005 Full text...
Brussels, 12 Jan 2006 The depression of the 1930s spawned the phrase, 'When America sneezes, the rest of the world catches cold'. Today, in a more interconnected and interdependent world, economic...
Brussels, 12 Jan 2006 Five EU Member States - Spain, Germany, France, Portugal, and the Czech Republic - were among the countries that contributed to a 22 million acre increase in the global...
Brussels, 12 Jan 2006 In three separate papers on the proposed European Research Council (ERC), simplification investing in knowledge, the Czech Academy of Sciences lays out how it sees European...
Brussels, 12 Jan 2006 Methane is a known greenhouse gas, with 32 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide, and it plays a role in atmospheric oxidation chemistry as well as affecting...
Brussels, 12 Jan 2006 A one-day workshop on agricultural engineering in the context of European research will be held in Brussels on 31 January. Organised by the German Association of Engineers,...
Paris, 12 Jan 2006 Scientists around the world eagerly await the arrival of sample particles from Comet Wild 2, which are being brought back to Earth by the US Stardust spacecraft on 15 January this...
Paris, 12 Jan 2006 A flotilla of space-weather satellites – ESA's Cluster and NASA's ACE and Wind - observed for the first time steady large-scale jets of charged particles in the solar...
Paris, 12 Jan 2006 The European Space Agency and the Australian National University have successfully tested a new design of spacecraft ion engine that dramatically improves performance over present...