Leader: Euro plan needs cash to take off
Research is a key ingredient of the new Europe now taking shape. The word appears 28 times in the proposed European constitution, while this week the European Commission announced plans for a massive...
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Leader: New hope for old school
One swallow doesn't make a summer, but the appointment of Rick Trainor as principal of King's College London is an encouraging sign for the unity of a sector that has been moving relentlessly in the...
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Leader: Euro plan needs cash to take off
Research is a key ingredient of the new Europe now taking shape. The word appears 28 times in the proposed European constitution, while this week the European Commission announced plans for a massive...
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Leader: New hope for old school
One swallow doesn't make a summer, but the appointment of Rick Trainor as principal of King's College London is an encouraging sign for the unity of a sector that has been moving relentlessly in the...
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Economics prize makes third British Nobel in a week Clive Granger, a British economist working in the US, has won the 2003 Nobel economics prize. He will share the award with US academic Robert Engle...
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Fees free-for-all Subject-by-subject guide to what your university plans to charge in top-ups, and what it thinks about bursaries McCarthyism Is it stalking US and Israeli academics? Terrible beauty...
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Format for presenting results of deliberate GMO release into environment otherwise than for placing on the market
Brussels, 8 October 2003 Commission Decision of 29 September 2003 establishing pursuant to Directive 2001/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council a format for presenting the results of...
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Romano Prodi: Presentation of the October European Council in Brussels - A more prosperous and secure Europe, European Parliament Brussels, 8 October 2003
Brussels, 8 October 2003 Mr President, Honourable Members, On 16 and 17 October the European Council will get to grips with the questions of strengthening the area of freedom, security and justice...
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Mapping the way forward for farmyard genomics
Brussels, 08 Oct 2003 Researchers and EU officials recently met to chew over ways in which genomics can improve food quality, disease control and biodiversity - subjects close to European hearts and...
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Do starfish and scampi suffer from trauma?
Brussels, 08 Oct 2003 The preliminary findings of a recently completed EU project are helping to shed some light on the implications of prawn trawl fishing on stock depletion and ecological...
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European motorway association rejects plans for satellite road toll systems
Brussels, 08 Oct 2003 The European association of motorway concessionaire companies and toll operators (ASECAP) has rejected a Commission proposal recommending a shift from short range communications...
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EU project analyses the relationship between national and European identities
Brussels, 08 Oct 2003 In order to better understand the relationships that Europeans have with their own countries and with the EU, the Commission is funding a study of European and national...
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Scientific agreements with Israel and Switzerland near adoption
Brussels, 08 Oct 2003 Association agreements allowing Swiss and Israeli researchers to participate in the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) on an equal footing with their EU counterparts are ready and...
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Information day on the international mobility of researchers
Brussels, 08 Oct 2003 The University of Rennes is organising a half day information session on the international mobility of researchers, to take place on October in Rennes. The topics to be covered...
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Artemis team receives award for space rescue
Paris, 08 Oct 2003 The Artemis Satellite Team has been awarded the 2003 Space Operations & Support Award at the AIAA's Space 2003 Conference at Long Beach, California (USA). The Artemis team...