Handbook on writing competitive FP6 proposals
Brussels, 05 Feb 2004 Hyperion Ltd has published a research managers' handbook entitled 'How to write a competitive proposal for FP6 [the Sixth Framework Programme]'. The publication gives an...
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Conference on the phytopharmaceutical sciences and industry
Brussels, 05 Feb 2004 Phytopharm 2004, a conference devoted to the phytopharmaceutical sciences and industry, will be held from 21 to 23 June in Mikkeli, Finland. The event will feature lectures from...
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UK Competition Commission's statement of issues in Carl Zeiss/Bio-Rad
London, 5 February 2004 The Competition Commission (CC) has today published an issues statement as part of its inquiry into the proposed acquisition by Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH of the microscopy business...
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EU-Switzerland scientific and technical cooperation agreement published in OJ (link)
Brussels, 5 February 2004 Council and Commission Decision of 22 December 2003 on the signature on behalf of the European Community and of the European Atomic Energy Community of the Agreement on...
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Agenda of the Research Working Party, Monday 9 February 2004
Brussels, 05 Feb 2004 Full text of Document 365/04 1. Commission communication on an Action Plan on GMES - Global Monitoring for the Environment and Security - Presentation by the Commission (doc. to...
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ESA to select new Earth Explorer missions
Paris, 05 Feb 2004 An important milestone for ESA's Living Planet Programme is to be reached this spring when it will be decided which of the six candidate Earth Explorer missions are to be selected...
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Europe set to fly higher still
Paris, 05 Feb 2004 Successful meeting of the ESA Council in Paris yesterday: the Member States of the European Space Agency have agreed to release the funds needed to put Ariane 5 back on track and...
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Super elite in secret bid for cash boost
A new group of five leading universities is bidding for an increased share of any extra cash in the government's summer spending review. The group, which calls itself the G5, warns that without more...
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In the news: Lord Butler
Robin Butler, master of University College, Oxford, and newly appointed chair of the inquiry into prewar intelligence on Iraq, is better known for his long tenure as a civil servant under...
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Appointments
University College Worcester has appointed: Howard Cox , professor of international business history and co-director of the Centre for International Business Studies at London South Bank University,...
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Oxford to build animal facility
Oxford University confirmed this week that it is building a facility for laboratory animals, underlining determination in the science community that animal research will continue despite protests by...
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Lib Dems play down split over endowments
The Scottish Liberal Democrats are playing down fears of a split with their Labour partners in the Scottish Executive over the future of the graduate endowment. Just before the Commons vote on top-up...
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Abertay lends a hand to 'secret' EU hopeful
The University of Abertay Dundee is helping to rebuild the economy of a Lithuanian town that until recently had never appeared on the map because it housed a secret nuclear power station, writes Olga...
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Next week
Don go breaking my heart The personal cost of the academic long-distance relationship. ALSO Prize guys P. W. Anderson reviews a book on the wisdom of fellow physics Nobel laureate Richard Feynman;...
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Princely sum paid for THES freebie
The THES 's giveaway book on Machiavelli proved so desirable that one enterprising reader sold their copy for £10 on the internet auction site eBay. Bidding for the book, A Very Short Introduction to...