Brussels, 03 Aug 2004 The Commission has received a sizeable response to its recent call for proposals for short-term security projects under the Preparatory Action on Security Research (PASR). The...
Brussels, 03 Aug 2004 The UK's Department of Trade and Industry has announced an investment in wave and tidal power technologies of 50 million GBP (75 million euro). The funding will be used to...
Brussels, 03 Aug 2004 A conference entitled 'Support for the protection and rescue of cultural heritage - European, national and local financing' and organised by APRE, the Italian Agency for the...
Brussels, 03 Aug 2004 The European Commission's Research DG has published a call for tenders relating to a study on the design, content, rules for participation and implementation of national public...
Brussels, 03 Aug 2004 The Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has published a call for proposals for a framework contract to provide its Institute of Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS)...
Brussels, 03 Aug 2004 The European Commission's Research DG has published a call for tenders for a study on private sector interaction in the decision making processes of public research. The study...
Paris, 03 Aug 2004 In preparation for a 60-day Female Bed-Rest Study, which starts in January/February 2005, an official call for candidates to participate as test subjects has been issued. The study...
Paris, 03 Aug 2004 The site where Europe's spacecraft are launched into orbit, the Atlantic shoreline of French Guiana, is also the starting point for another hardly less remarkable journey: the epic...
Paris, 03 Aug 2004 This image, taken by ESA's Rosetta comet-chaser spacecraft, shows the Earth-Moon system from a distance of 70 million kilometres. This is close to the maximum distance reached by...
Tories to charge students more for loans The Conservatives are planning to impose an interest rate above inflation on student loans to fund their commitment to abolish all university tuition fees....
Brussels, 02 Aug 2004 A conference on 'Antimicrobial growth promoters: worldwide ban on the horizon?' will take place in Noordwijk aan Zee in the Netherlands on 31 January and 1 February 2005. In...
Brussels, 02 Aug 2004 Germany has published a report on the first 18 months of regulations allowing the import and use of human embryonic stem cells for research purposes. The report covers the...
Brussels, 02 Aug 2004 Despite continuing international deadlock over where to base the international thermonuclear experimental reactor (ITER), the United States' Department of Energy (DOE) is set to...
02 Aug 2004 Full text Patents pose an ever-present threat to software of all kinds, because any person that uses or distributes software that infringes a patent is liable and can have money damages...
Brussels, 02 Aug 2004 The Russian scientific education system is going through a revival, producing over 200,000 science graduates a year, according to a report by the magazine Businessweek. The...