Brussels, 14 Jun 2005 An 'advanced course on strategic communication in biotechnology' will take place in Oxford, the UK, from 11 to 21 September. The course programme has been designed to provide...
Brussels, 14 Jun 2005 The Commission's Enterprise and Industry DG has published a call for tenders for a study on the transfer of expertise through mentoring in small and medium sized enterprises (...
Pressing problem for Durham's student paper One of Britain’s best-known student newspapers - the Durham University Palatinate - is facing an uncertain future as a result of a worsening...
UK campuses don’t rate Good news for British universities: Singapore wants to send students here to study science. The bad news is that only Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial College London are of any...
Brussels, 13 June 2005 According to two Eurobarometer reports published today, 71% of EU citizens agree that collaborative research at EU level is growing in importance and 59% consider that the EU...
Brussels, 13 Jun 2005 The European Commission is to hold two information days in the context of the forthcoming call for proposals under the sub-priority 'global change and ecosystems' of the Sixth...
Brussels, 13 June 2005 The European Commission has today announced the ways in which it intends to keep Europe at the forefront of the fast-moving field of nanotechnology in a safe and responsible...
Brussels, 13 Jun 2005 The European Commission is providing 250,000 euro to a new project aimed at increasing understanding of the production and emergence of highly creative and innovative research...
Brussels, 13 Jun 2005 The European League against Rheumatism (EULAR) has criticised the European Commission for failing to recognise rheumatic diseases as important major disease groups in its...
Brussels, 13 Jun 2005 Scientists' understanding of the flux of carbon between the oceans, atmosphere, land and biosphere - the so-called carbon cycle - is set to dramatically improve with the...
Brussels, 13 Jun 2005 An international symposium on parallel and distributed computing (ISPDC) will take place in Lille, France, from 4 to 6 July. The event aims to provide an interactive and high-...
Brussels, 13 Jun 2005 The UK is to use its presidency of the G8 group of nations to seek support for the creation of an international science panel to help reduce the impact of natural hazards. A...
Brussels, 13 Jun 2005 Some 13 UK universities have teamed up to help rebuild the academic strengths of two Indonesian universities devastated by the tsunami on 26 December 2004. The two universities...
Video lectures sent to mobiles Coventry University is broadcasting lectures straight to students' mobiles so they don't have to get out of bed in the mornings. Lessons are filmed with digital cameras...
Brussels, 10 Jun 2005 Ahead of the European Council meeting on 16 and 17 June, where ministers will decide indirectly whether or not to accept the Commission's proposal of doubling EU funding for...